Dear Readers,

A few words to report on the results of the Online GeoServer Bug Stomp that took place on the 22nd of July 2016.

The goal, as indicated, was to look at GeoServer and GeoServer JIRA and clean old, useless reports as well as to fix as many bugs as possible within the day of the sprint. Well, the results are not bad, as the image below shows.

Numbers are as follow:

• Improvements closed **103 **(9 fixed - remainder failed to attract budget/interest after quite some time)

• Bugs closed **35 **(25 fixed - followed by 6 won’t fix, 3 cannot reproduce, 1 not a bug )

• New Feature **14 **(2 fixed - with 12 not a bug)

• Task **9 **(2 fixed - with 7 not a bug)

• Wish **2 **(not a bug)

• Subtask 1

• TOTAL 164

You can check the live report here:

• Thanks to everybody who participated (a list of the participating people can be found in this spreadsheet).

• As noted above many new features/improvements/wishes were quite old and had failed to attract budget/volunteers

• The not-a-bug category is used for ideas or conversations which are best taken to the developers or users list for discussion

• Not shown is the review of incoming issues to see which issues are ready to be worked on, or held back for further clarification before they can be reproduced.

If you did not participate this month don’t worry, we are going to have this event again on August 27-28th as part of the foss4g post-sprint. Remember, we want to make this event a periodic gathering so keep following this blog for news.

Happy GeoServer to everybody!

Dear Readers,

a quick post to spread the word about the Online GeoServer Bug Stomp which will take place this Friday, the 22nd of July 2016.

Developers as well as users from the GeoServer community will gather online to spend up to a full day (in their timezone) on tasks like:

• Reviewing JIRA Reports to make sure they are valid

• Fix bugs as we come across them

• Improved docs

• Test and report new bugs or close existing reports

The rules of engagement as well as a first rough list of participants can be found in this document; the event is an online gathering, people will be working from their place coordinating using the GeoServer Gitter channel with whomever will be online in their timezone.

If you feel like helping don’t be scared, jump onboard, read the rules of engagement say hi on the gitter channel (github login required) and help us make GeoServer even better.

If you cannot, don’t worry, we are going to try and make this event a monthly event.

Happy GeoServer to everybody!

The FOSS4G North America (NA) 2016 was held in North Carolina from 02 and 05th May. This year’s FOSS4G NA conference is yet another collaborative effort involving OSGeo and LocationTech. The conference provides opportunities for the FOSS4G community to learn, explore, share, and collaborate on the latest ideas and information.

If you can not attend the event, you can watch the videos of the presentations that were made available on YouTube Channel of FOSS4G NA.

Below is a list of presentations (in video) related to GeoServer:

• Vector Tiles with GeoServer and OpenLayers - David Blasby and Andreas Hocevar (Boundless)

• Bring Your Maps into Focus: Processing Raster Data for Online Use - Megan Slemons and Jay Varner (Emory University Library)

• Uncovering the Ancient Mound Builders Using Open Data and FOSS Software - Calvin Hamilton

• High Performance GeoServer Clusters - Derek Kern (Ubisense, Inc.)

• Image Mosaics & Automation - Jonathan Meyer (Applied Information Sciences)

Some talks were not available in video, but you can download the presentations in PDF format.

• Introduction to GeoServer - Mike Pumphrey and Andreas Hocevar (Boundless)

• GeoSHAPE: FOSS GIS Collaboration Platform with Web & Mobile Clients - Syrus Mesdaghi (Prominent Edge) and Daniel Berry (Boundless)

• Using Open Source Web GIS for Analysis of Transnational Illicit Trafficking - Eunjung Elle Lim (University of Maryland)

• Terra Populus: Free Human-Environment Spatial Data - David Haynes

The GeoServer team is pleased to announce the release of GeoServer 2.8.4. Download bundles are provided (bin, war, dmg and exe) along with documentation and extensions.

GeoServer 2.8.4 is the latest stable release of GeoServer and is recommended for production deployment. This release is made in conjunction with GeoTools 14.4. Thanks to all contributors. Fixes and new functionality include:

• Security fix for a reflected XSS vulnerability

• Fix for potential out of memory state when rendering lots of very small tiles

• Fix for an embedded GeoFence issue that caused user settings to be lost after a restart

• Improved ImageMosaic creation and update speed for databases with many tables

• Monitoring extension fixes for RemoteUser logging and monitoring hibernate extension causing startup issues to GeoServer

• CSS styling extension related fix: A bug in CSS to SLD conversion led in some cases to performance issues with the generated SLD

• PDF printing related fixes to properly render SLD “shape://horline” symbol, prevent invalid polygon generation and avoid potential out of memory state or very large files when handling large outputs with dense hatch fills

• And much more, see all the 24 tickets resolved in the release notes

Thanks to Alessandro Parma (GeoSolutions) and Andrea Aime (GeoSolutions) for this release.

About GeoServer 2.8

Articles, blog posts and presentations:

• State of GeoServer 2015 (FOSS4G)

• XEE Vunerability (GeoServer)

• Remote Execution Vulnerability (GeoServer)

• Z ordering features within and across feature types and layers (User Manual)

• JAI-Ext, the Open Source replacement for Oracle JAI (GeoSolutions)

• Customizable arrow in GeoServer (GeoSolutions)

• PostGIS Curve Support (GeoSolutions)

• Improved NetCDF/GRIB support in GeoServer (GeoSolutions)

• Initial GeoServer 2.8.0 release announcement  (GeoServer)

_Guest post by Fernando Quadro: _FOSS4G is the annual global event of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). Although widely recognized as the largest technical open source geospatial conference we call FOSS4G an “event” because it is far more than “just” a conference. A typical FOSS4G will include regular presentations and talks, but also code sprints, birds of a feather sessions, workshops, topic talks and of course social events spanning all nine days.

The list of talks that will be presented are already published, here are the talks about GeoServer:

• Creating Stunning Maps in GeoServer: mastering SLD and CSS styles - Andrea Aime (GeoSolutions)

• GeoServer Styling Hints and Tips for Prettier Maps - Ian Turton (Astun Technology)

• Enterprise Single Sign-On in GeoServer: where do we stand? - Francesco Bartoli (Geobeyond Srl)

• GeoServer in Production: we do it, here is how! - Simone Giannecchini and Andrea Aime (GeoSolutions)

• Mastering Security with GeoServer and GeoFence - Alessio Fabiani and Simone Giannecchini (GeoSolutions)

• Serving earth observation data with GeoServer: addressing real world requirements - Simone Giannecchini and Andrea Aime (GeoSolutions)

• Crunching Data In GeoServer: Mastering Rendering Transformations, WPS Processes And SQL Views - Andrea Aime (GeoSolutions)

• State of GeoServer - Jody Garnett (Boundless) and Andrea Aime (GeoSolutions)

• Vector Tiles with GeoServer and OpenLayers - David Blasby and Andreas Hocevar (Boundless)

• Open Source strategies in a federal office - migrating from closed software to OS development - Dr. Marco Lechner (German Federal Office for Radiation Protection)

• Still waiting for someone else to do it: Writing documentation for an open source project - Mike Pumphrey (Boundless)

• State of GeoGig - Gabriel Roldán and Tyler Battle (Boundless)

• Using Open Source Tools to Visualize Spatial Activity Drone Restrictions - Aäron Trippaers

• Bringing benthic data to the surface - moving Marine Recorder into an open source spatial database - James Hutchison (Joint Nature Conservation Committee)

• Real-time large format maps for passenger information on railway disruptions - Mario Härtwig (geOps)

• Collect & Manage Geospatial Data Edits with GeoSHAPE -  Syrus Mesdaghi (Prominent Edge LLC)

• Urban SDG Measuring System using the Open Geospatial Data of the International Organizations - Junyoug Choi (Spatial Information office), Hyunsoo Kim (CITUS. CO), Jaeseong Ahn (Kyungil University)

The workshops are include great GeoServer content:

• Web mapping with OGC services and GeoServer: an introduction - Andrea Aime and Simone Giannecchini (GeoSolutions)

• Beyond GeoServer Basics - Mike Pumphrey and Morgan Thompson (Boundless)

• GeoServer Styling Workshop - Jody Garnett, Kevin Smith and Torben Barsballe (Boundless)

• I have data with TIME, ELEVATION and other dimensions: what can GeoServer do for me? - Simone Giannecchini and Andrea Aime (GeoSolutions)

• Enterprise class deployment for GeoServer and GeoWebcache: Optimizing performances and robustness - Daniel Koch,  Nils Bühner and Andre Henn (terrestris GmbH & Co. KG) and Simone Giannecchini (GeoSolutions)

FOSS4G 2016 takes place between August 24th and 27th in Bonn Germany. For more information see the video below: