This release is made in conjunction with GeoTools 23.2 and GeoWebCache 1.17.2. This is a stable release recommended for production systems.

Thanks to everyone who contributed, and Jody Garnett (GeoCat) for making this release. Additional thanks to everyone who participated in the July bug-fix sprint organized by GeoSolutions.

Improvements and Fixes

This release includes a number of improvements, including:

• GetFeatureInfo templates can now be used for GeoJSON output
• The WPS download community module can now generate elevation models accounting for vertical grid shift when changing datum.
• Oracle extension now ready to use with included JDBC driver, the driver changed to a “Oracle Free Use Terms and Conditions” license allowing us to distribute.
• PostreSQL driver, Oracle driver, Eclipse EMF library, spring-framework, and spring-security version updates.
• Image Mosaic REST API can now be used to update the native bbox when harvesting or deleting granules

Fixes included in this release:

• GetFeatureInfo fixed to work on raster layer dynamically produced by a rendering transformation.
• Lots of WMTS fixes resolving SRS list duplicates and handling of otherSrs.
• SLD Service handling of percentages with custom classes
• Layer preview fix, was miscounting number of pages when security restrictions used to limit number of layers available
• Binary download on windows fixed to autodect Java when spaces used in path
• WFS Cascade fixed to remove duplicate SRS elements when connecting to WFS 2.0.0 layer
• MongoDB extension fixed, was missing a jar
• Database use of select distinct in the WPS Unique process fixed
• Image mosaic fixes for WPS download process bbox generation, and WMS GetMap respect of CLIP vendor parameter,
• GeoPackage supports raster tables with special characters

For more information check the 2.17.2 release notes.

Community Updates

For developers building from source, our community modules are a great place to collaborate on functionality and improvements.

• The JSON-LD module is under active development with templating now supporting filtering, environmental variable substitution. Thanks to the sponsorship of the French geological survey – BRGM and the French environmental information systems research center – INSIDE.
• The GSR community module working on packaging, addressed a startup problem.

About GeoServer 2.17

Features, presentations and reference material on the 2.17 series:

• New security tab on each layer, layer group and workspace page
• Option to use date created and date modified to sort UI lists
• New resource browser extension
• New Mapbox style extension

• FOSDEM GeoServer Orientation presentation (slides

  video)

• Full OSM data directory for GeoServer available on GitHub
• Code of Conduct

• Release Notes (2.17.2

  2.17.1

  2.17.0

  2.17-RC)

This is a stable release recommended for production systems.

Improvements and Fixes

This release includes a number of improvements, including:

• The GetFeatureInfo GeoJSON output can now be controlled with freemarker templates.
• Image mosaic REST API now allows updating the native BBOX of the mosaic during update and delete operations. It’s also now possible to store the mosaic index in SQL Server.
• Documentation on how to integrate the app-schema plugin with MongoDB has been improved.
• The JSON-LD community module has a new option to filter output contents.
• The WPS download community module can reproject the eventual pixel value as well, in case it is an elevation, using a grid shift file.

For more information and the small assorted bug fixes, check the 2.16.4 release notes.

About GeoServer 2.16

Features, presentations and reference material on the 2.16 series:

• State of GeoServer 2.16 (video|slides)
• GeoServer Feature Frenzy 2019 (video|slides)
• New SLDService extension using data classification for style generation
• New authentication key extension available
• Server status page now includes system status details
• GDAL 2.x binaries are now used for GDAL image formats along with OGR WFS output and WPS output formats
• Release Notes ( 2.16.4  | 2.16.3  | 2.16.2 | 2.16.1 | 2.16.0 | 2.16-RC1 )

This release is made in conjunction with GeoTools 23.1 and GeoWebCache 1.17.1. This is a stable release recommended for production systems.

Thanks to everyone who contributed, and Jody Garnett (GeoCat) for making this release. Additional thanks to Jukka, Charles, Jody and Graham for helping test on the GeoServer user list. Testing in a wide range of environments is important for the community, and we appreciate seeing more people involved.

Improvements and Fixes

This release includes a number of improvements, including:

• SLD Service Extension now supports percentages when generating rule titles, or individual colormap entries
• SLD Service generation fix to avoid duplicating classes in generated style

Fixes included in this release:

• WMS Legend decoration fix to correct image size calculation, and to display legend for raster layers
• Fix WPS DownloadMap process to support use of WMS Legend decoration
• Fix for vector tile generation, taking into account line width to prevent gaps between tiles

For more information check the 2.17.1 release notes.

Community Updates

For developers building from source, our community modules are a great place to collaborate on functionality and improvements.

• A GSR community module is now available providing an GeoService REST compatibility API.
• Backup restore development continues, with an option to exclude select content during restore
• We have removed all references to the spatialite datastore from our documentation as this extension has not been produced for some time. Those wishing to work with spatialite can do so via the ogr datastore.

About GeoServer 2.17

Features, presentations and reference material on the 2.17 series:

• New security tab on each layer, layer group and workspace page
• Option to use date created and date modified to sort UI lists
• New resource browser extension
• New Mapbox style extension

• FOSDEM GeoServer Orientation presentation (slides

  video)

• Full OSM data directory for GeoServer available on GitHub
• Code of Conduct

• Release Notes (2.17.1

  2.17.0)

This is a stable release recommended for production systems.

Improvements and Fixes

This release includes a number of improvements, including:

• New “clip” vendor option in WMS GetMap.
• The SLD generation service can now create classified styles with per class percentages of occupation.
• Various WMS cascading improvements, including:
  • Options to configure min/max scale denominator for cascaded WMS layers, as well as to limit the cascading requests to the declared BBOX.
  • Options to configure formats and styles used in cascading.
  • GetLegendGraphic now works with external WMS layers too.
• The configuration UI got improved too, in particular:
  • It’s possible to show dates of creation and last modification in the resource lists (layers, stores, and so on).
  • Search filters in lists are now remembered when moving across pages.
  • Data level security can be edited in a new dedicated tab at the single resource level (e.g., while in the layer page).
• Mass truncation requests added to GWC, and the tile layer page lists layers faster
• Monitoring can now skip post-processors, and can log the time needed to render each layer in a multi-layer request.
• WFS supports per workspace stored queries.
• The SQL Server now ships with the latest open source JDBC driver by Microsoft, no longer need to fetch it separately.
• The download process (community module) can now return image mosaic single granules in their native CRS, when requesting a single one out of a heterogeneous CRS mosaic.
• Layer level CQL filter is now respected by complex feature layers too.

Fixes included in this release:

• WMS legend decorations got some attention, improving their size management
• Improved support for map wrapping while using rendering transformations generating raster data (raster to raster or vector to raster ones)
• And various others!

For more information check the 2.16.3 release notes.

Community Updates

For developers building from source, our community modules are a great place to collaborate on functionality and improvements.

• The templated JSON-LD output format, supporting both simple and complex features, has been backported to 2.16.x. We are grateful for the sponsorship of the French geological survey – BRGM and the French environmental information systems research center – INSIDE, which made its development possible.

About GeoServer 2.16

Features, presentations and reference material on the 2.16 series:

• State of GeoServer 2.16 (video|slides)
• GeoServer Feature Frenzy 2019 (video|slides)
• New SLDService extension using data classification for style generation
• New authentication key extension available
• Server status page now includes system status details
• GDAL 2.x binaries are now used for GDAL image formats along with OGR WFS output and WPS output formats
• Release Notes ( 2.16.3  | 2.16.2 | 2.16.1 | 2.16.0 | 2.16-RC1 )

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