The GeoServer team is pleased to announce the release of GeoServer 2.4.2:

• GeoServer 2.4.3 download page

This is a stable release containing bug fixes and incremental improvements, including:

• A great performance  improvement for those using sql views

• Fix for defining a workspace style using CSS extension

• Workspace styles can now manage their own images and graphics

• Thanks to all those who contributed fixes, and documentation corrections, for this release.

This release is made in conjunction with GeoTools 10.3.

Spot a translation mistake? Help translate here: GeoServer Stable localisation

About the GeoServer 2.4 series

The following change control requests were completed during the development of GeoServer 2.4:

• Replace old KML module with new one (GSIP 98)

• Allow plugins to modify WMS MapContent before map rendering (GSIP 92)

• Machinery to pass thread locals down in thread pools (GSIP 96, fixes WPS asych requests security issues) - also available in 2.3.4

• Promote CSS Styling module from Community to Extension (GSIP 97) - also available in 2.3.2

• Graduate the INSPIRE module to extension status (GSIP 94) - also available in 2.3.2

• Promote XSLT community module to extension (GSIP 93) - also available in 2.3.1

• The shapefile datastore was completely rewritten (mostly as a code cleanup)

Articles and blogs during GeoServer 2.4 development:

• GeoServer 2.4.0 Release Highlights

• GeoServer FOSS4G 2013 (State of GeoServer, Introduction, Steroids, GeoFence, RasterData, Spatio-Temporal, Cartographic Rendering)

• Translation Interview

• GeoServer in a clustered configuration (Part 1, Part 2)

• New GeoServer community on Google+

• How to publish GDAL/MrSID image formats on a production GeoServer

• GeoServer crunch time (Part I, Part II and Part III)

• FOSS4G-NA slides (GeoServer In Production, GeoServer CSS Module, Scripting GeoServer with GeoScript, The State of GeoServer 2013)

• INSPIRE Conference 2013 slides (Analysing GeoServer compatibility with INSPIRE requirements)

• FOSSGIS 2013 slides (Introduction to GeoServer)

The GeoServer community is planning an online code sprint this Friday to fix bugs and improve documentation. Join us in #geoserver on Freenode and let’s see how productive we can be. To help coordinate efforts, Andrea Aime is has prepared a list of bugs on Jira to kick start the sprint.

Regards,

GeoServer Team

The GeoServer team is pleased to announce the release of GeoServer 2.4.2:

• GeoServer 2.4.2 download page

This is a stable release containing bug fixes and incremental improvements, including:

• Total matched feature count available in JSON output (contributed by Paul Biskup)

• Ability to control how scale hints are computed in WMS 1.1 (contributed by Roy Braam and Mauricio Pazos)

• Support for randomized symbol fills in both SLD and CSS (thanks to New South Wales Geological survey for sponsoring it)

• Better support for data with 3D coordinates using GML3/GeoJSON, and associated improvements in the SQL Server backend (thanks to IGEA, Croatia, for sponsoring this work)

• WCS 1.0 can be disabled

• Several translation updates and improvements, thanks to the translation team. In no particular order: Polish, Korean, German, Lithuanian, Spanish, Romanian, French

• Several small fixes in the docs (thanks to all the good people that contributed them!)

This release is made in conjunction with GeoTools 10.2.

Spot a translation mistake? Help translate here: GeoServer Stable localisation

About the GeoServer 2.4 series

The following change control requests were completed during the development of GeoServer 2.4:

• Replace old KML module with new one (GSIP 98)

• Allow plugins to modify WMS MapContent before map rendering (GSIP 92)

• Machinery to pass thread locals down in thread pools (GSIP 96, fixes WPS asych requests security issues) - also available in 2.3.4

• Promote CSS Styling module from Community to Extension (GSIP 97) - also available in 2.3.2

• Graduate the INSPIRE module to extension status (GSIP 94) - also available in 2.3.2

• Promote XSLT community module to extension (GSIP 93) - also available in 2.3.1

• The shapefile datastore was completely rewritten (mostly as a code cleanup)

Articles and blogs during GeoServer 2.4 development:

• GeoServer 2.4.0 Release Highlights

• GeoServer FOSS4G 2013 (State of GeoServer, Introduction, Steroids, GeoFence, RasterData, Spatio-Temporal, Cartographic Rendering )

• Translation Interview

• GeoServer in a clustered configuration (Part 1, Part 2)

• New GeoServer community on Google+

• How to publish GDAL/MrSID image formats on a production GeoServer

• GeoServer crunch time (Part I, Part II and Part III)

• FOSS4G-NA slides (GeoServer In Production, GeoServer CSS Module, Scripting GeoServer with GeoScript, The State of GeoServer 2013)

• INSPIRE Conference 2013 slides (Analysing GeoServer compatibility with INSPIRE requirements)

• FOSSGIS 2013 slides (Introduction to GeoServer)

The GeoServer team is pleased to announce the release of GeoServer 2.4.1:

• GeoServer 2.4.1 download page

This is a stable release containing bug fixes and incremental improvements, including:

• CSW admin page

• Fixed deployment without web jars

• Polygon fill margin vendor option in CSS

• Automatically link CSW (ISO) records to the respective WMS/WFS/WCS sources

This release is made in conjunction with GeoTools 10.1.

Spot a translation mistake? Help translate here: GeoServer Stable localisation

About the GeoServer 2.4 series

The following change control requests were completed during the development of GeoServer 2.4:

• Replace old KML module with new one (GSIP 98)

• Allow plugins to modify WMS MapContent before map rendering (GSIP 92)

• Machinery to pass thread locals down in thread pools (GSIP 96, fixes WPS asych requests security issues) - also available in 2.3.4

• Promote CSS Styling module from Community to Extension (GSIP 97) - also available in 2.3.2

• Graduate the INSPIRE module to extension status (GSIP 94) - also available in 2.3.2

• Promote XSLT community module to extension (GSIP 93) - also available in 2.3.1

• The shapefile datastore was completely rewritten (mostly as a code cleanup)

Articles and blogs during GeoServer 2.4 development:

• GeoServer 2.4.0 Release Highlights

• GeoServer FOSS4G 2013 (State of GeoServer, Introduction, Steroids, GeoFence, RasterData, Spatio-Temporal, Cartographic Rendering )

• Translation Interview

• GeoServer in a clustered configuration (Part 1, Part 2)

• New GeoServer community on Google+

• How to publish GDAL/MrSID image formats on a production GeoServer

• GeoServer crunch time (Part I, Part II and Part III)

• FOSS4G-NA slides (GeoServer In Production, GeoServer CSS Module, Scripting GeoServer with GeoScript, The State of GeoServer 2013)

• INSPIRE Conference 2013 slides (Analysing GeoServer compatibility with INSPIRE requirements)

• FOSSGIS 2013 slides (Introduction to GeoServer)

We noticed out friends at Slashgeo could not quite figure out what is new with the GeoServer 2.4.0 release - so we have updated the release announcement with a 2.4.0 feature list.

For a more complete story check out the State of GeoServer 2013 presentation on on elogeo or slideshare.

Let me call out several significant developments from the GeoServer product story:

• CSS Extension: David Winslow is a long standing member of the GeoServer community, however his most significant work has been hiding in the community modules. With this release of GeoServer the CSS module has become a formal GeoServer extension. This module being brought into core is having a serious impact on the GeoServer usability story and is an excellent contribution. The documentation has been updated with a complete CSS cookbook (as a counterpoint to the SLD cookbook) and represents a great learning aid. Talking points: there are some technical reasons (the CSS module is written in Scala rather than Java) why it has remained a community module up until now. The GeoServer community opening up, even a little bit, to other JVM languages is an interesting change of strategy.

• **Time boxed release model: **GeoServer 2.4.0 was released on time with little drama. Talking points: This is kind of old news now, but with all the mad panic around FOSS4G releases seen over the course of the week I have to call out the GeoServer community for being excellent. It is not enough to release open source software, releasing on schedule is the new normal.

• **NetCDF and GeoTools Raster API improvements ** Talking points: This change is flying under the radar, but is significant from a product story as it is opening up new markets to the GeoServer application. It is a long term play, and there is work to be done, but it is wonderful to see the first steps taken in a responsible and measured manner.

• Importer community module (heading to extension shortly!) offering a wizard like process for the bulk publication of data, automating common activities such as transformation and generation of default styling. Talking points: This represents a significant contribution from the downstream OpenGeo Suite being donated back to the GeoServer community to enable collaboration and improvement. GeoServer has a number of downstream distributions and this is a great example of healthy community participation.