This is a stable release recommended for production systems.

Improvements and Fixes

This release includes a number of improvements, including:

• Support for vector custom dimensions (in addition to time and elevation)
• Allow limiting the number of concurrent jobs in the importer extension
• Default style descriptions wording improvement (as they are visible in capabilities documents)

Fixes included in this release:

• The REST API fixes regarding datastore and feature type handling (see notes for details)
• Fixed 100% CPU usage at idle on data directories with tens of thousands of layers
• Don’t delay startup on an unresponsive cascaded WMS server
• Make sure to truncate fully tile caches with parameters
• Make GWC caching kick in also when using local workspaces along with non qualified layer names
• And various others!

For more information check the 2.16.2 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 ( 2.16.2 | 2.16.1 | 2.16.0 | 2.16-RC1 )

This is a maintenance release and is a recommended update for existing installations. This is the last scheduled 2.15 maintenance release and we recommend planning your upgrade to 2.16.

This release is made in conjunction with GeoTools 21.3 and GeoWebCache 1.15.3. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release.

For more information see the GeoServer 2.15.4 release notes.

Improvements and Fixes

This release includes a number of improvements, including:

• Improve ncWMS extension to support time list and time range.
• Truncate of tiles fixed use of parameters.
• Upgrade of XStream and Jackson libraries.

A number of fixes are also present:

• Fix cascading WMTS use of credentials
• ncWMS extension now respects no-data values.
• Importer fixed to respect shapefile charset encoding.

About GeoServer 2.15 Series

Additional information on the 2.15 series:

• Layer service settings allow WFS, WMS, WPS to be enabled on a layer by layer basis.
• GeoFence internal server extension a new approach to access control
• Style Editor supports auto-complete using control-space shortcut.
• SLD REST Service extension supports generation of thematic styles for vector and raster content.
• WPS vendor operation GetExecution Status and Dismiss, management of running processes.
• Java 11 can now be used, see Running on Java 11.
• JAI-EXT operations are now enabled by default.

• Release notes (2.15.4

  2.15.3

  2.15.2

  2.15.1

  2.15.0

  2.15-RC

  2.15-M0)

This is a stable release recommended for production systems.

Note: Our builds detected a change in Oracle JDK 8u221 URL handling; this release was made with 8u202 as a result. Future releases will be made using OpenJDK.

Improvements and Fixes

This release includes a number of improvements, including:

• The REST API now supports configuring the WMTS
• New hideEmptyRules LEGEND_OPTION to hide rules not matching any features

Fixes included in this release:

• SLDService generated raster classifiers are not overwriting the default style any longer
• Monitoring extension fixed to respect GEOSERVER_AUDIT_PATH setting
• Cascaded WMTS now makes use of provided credentials

For more information check the 2.16.1 release notes.

Security Updates

Please update your production instance of GeoServer to receive the latest security updates and fixes.

If you encounter a security vulnerability in GeoServer please respect our responsible disclosure policy.

Community Updates

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

• ncWMS GetTimeSeries now supports time ranges with period and excludes nodata from results
• hz-cluster improved synchronization events

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 ( 2.16.1 | 2.16.0 | 2.16-RC1 )

GeoServer Project Steering Committee is seeking a solution for automated CITE TEAM Engine tests for build.geoserver.org.

If you or your organization is interested in this work please respond to the geoserver-devel email list with your interest by the end of November. Applicants are welcome to email geoserver-devel list, or attend bi-weekly GeoServer meeting, with any questions or clarifications of requirements.

For details, including detailed requirements, see GSIP-176 fundraising, maintenance activity wiki page, and prior blog post.

Schedule Update: Please email geoserver-devel if you are interested in this activity by the end of November, we will evaluate proposal during GeoServer Meeting December 10th.

Clarrifications

There are three approaches discussed:

• cite command line: our previous scripts made use of a the cite engine to run tests on the command line.
• cite engine service: The new cite engine has a rest-api, so the testing script could use CURL commands to ask the engine to run the tests
• cite engine docker: The cite engine is also distributed as a docker image, if that makes it easier to manage the rest-api approach 

Any of these approaches can be viable, or you may have additional ideas. The challenge (after our last experience) is setting up something that can be maintained.

Notes:

• The WFS-T tests required a database to run, the tests created a couple of tables each time (since the transaction request modifies the content)

Thanks to sponsors

We would like to thank everyone who has supported this activity via sponsorship and donation. Special thanks OSGeo along with activity sponsors Gaia3D, and OSGeo:UK for help making this possible.

This is a maintenance release and is a recommended update for existing installations. This release is made in conjunction with GeoTools 21.3 and GeoWebCache 1.15.3. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release.

For more information see the GeoServer 2.15.3 release notes.

Improvements and Fixes

This release includes a number of improvements, including:

• Enhance mongodb schema generation
• Allow setting Entity Expansion limit on WFS XML Readers
• Promote authkey to extension (GSIP-174)
• Make MongoDB App-Schema schema rebuilder endpoints only rebuild schemas present in mappings.
• Promote status-monitoring module from Community to Extension
• Upgrade Jetty to 9.4.18.v20190429

A number of fixes are also present:

• WMS GetFeatureInfo formats text/html, text/plain, text/xml and application/vnd.ogc.gml (GML2) don’t handle time correctly
• Wrong URL scheme in layer preview (when using HTTPS)
• GetCapabilities on a single layer fails if a style is duplicated
• Renaming a layer doesn’t update Data Security rules
• SLD file renamed with REST PUT request when not needed
• GeoTIFF sources configured with GeoServer 2.14.x might not work in 2.15.x
• Style editor extension point not working
• NullPointerException on WFS ComplexGeoJsonWriter Link check
• Switching from System Status to Modules tab gives an error.
• Nodata is not made transparent after channelSelect+contrastEnhancement on multibands dataset
• WFS GeoJSONBuilder limits max nested level to 20

About GeoServer 2.15 Series

Additional information on the 2.15 series:

• Layer service settings allow WFS, WMS, WPS to be enabled on a layer by layer basis.
• GeoFence internal server extension a new approach to access control
• Style Editor supports auto-complete using control-space shortcut.
• SLD REST Service extension supports generation of thematic styles for vector and raster content.
• WPS vendor operation GetExecution Status and Dismiss, management of running processes.
• Java 11 can now be used, see Running on Java 11.
• JAI-EXT operations are now enabled by default.

• Release notes ( 2.15.2

  2.15.1

  2.15.0

  2.15-RC

  2.15-M0)

Java 11 comparability is the result of a successful code-sprint. Thanks to participating organizations (Boundless, GeoSolutions, GeoCat, Astun Technology, CCRi) and sprint sponsors (Gaia3D, atol, osgeo:uk, Astun Technology).