The GeoServer team is pleased to announce the release of GeoServer 2.3.3:

• Downloads (zip, war, dmg and exe) are listed on the GeoServer 2.3.3 page along with documentation and extensions.

  • This release includes and is made in conjunction with GeoTools 9.3.

• Thanks to Warwickshire County Council for some great GeoWebCache integration work:

  • GeoWebCache tile layer HTTP cache headers are now taken from GeoServer layer configration

  • GeoWebCache settings are now correctly saved on Windows

• A wide range of improvements provided by the community

  • Scale hints now exposed in WMS GetCapabilities document

  • Fixed Symbology Encoding 1.1 encoding of relative external graphics

  • Addressed axis order issues cascading WMS 1.3.0 services through GeoServer

More details can be found in the GeoServer 2.3.3 Release Notes.

These are harsh times for the economy around the world, unemployment rates are high everywhere especially for young people. It is however good to see job offers for professional with knowledge on GeoServer arising in varios parts of the world confirming that Open Source is an engine for growth.

It’s becoming more and more common to see job offers demanding GeoServer experience as a requisite. The companies providing support for GeoServer are growing as well, providing opportunities to the brave souls that want to work side by side with the core developers.

GeoSolutions, an italian company deeply involved in both GeoServer and GeoTools, is looking for a Support Engineer that will provide support to clients as well as help with installing and managing production deployments. GeoSolutions is looking for a front-end developer that will develop the user facing portion of new geospatial applications powered by GeoServer.

OpenGeo is also actively hiring with a number of open positions available. The Java developer position is looking for someone interested in applying their skills to open source development on projects in the GeoServer ecosystem.

Searches on indeed.com, dice.com or monster.com also show a number of positions that either demand or have a preference for people with GeoServer experience.

We’re please to see this growth and hope you’ll enjoy working with GeoServer as much as we do!

The GeoServer team is pleased to announce the release of GeoServer 2.3.2 for download.

• This release includes and is made in conjunction with GeoTools 9.2.

• The INSPIRE plugin has now graduated to extension and is included in this release. This plugin adds WMS and WFS capabilities support for metadata required for compliance with the European INSPIRE directive.

• The application schema support (app-schema) support plugin now enables joining by default for data sources that support it.

• Fixed transformation problems with projections based on Hotine Oblique Mercator (variant B) (for example Swiss CH1903 / LV03)

• Fixed WFS lockups when a WFS 1.1 GetFeature is providing a schema referring back to the same server DescribeFeatureType

• A new option to limit the file browser to the data directory, geared towards high security/multi-tenant environments

More details can be found in the GeoServer 2.3.2 Release Notes.

Being social and sharing with others is one of the keystones of a open source community.

Traditionally open source communities thrive on mailing lists and IRC channels, however it’s not news that many people prefer other medias for sharing thoughts, experiences, and asking for help. For example, people with an interest in GeoServer are already active on Twitter and StackExchange.

Simone recently created a new Google+ GeoServer community, adding one more choice to the mix: https://plus.google.com/communities/101905665894825745986

If you like mailing lists do not worry, the GeoServer users mailing list will still be the primary and official mean to get support (and we very much suggest you to hang there too), the Google+ community is just an alternate mean of communication that some of us might want to try out.

So, if have an interest in GeoServer and your preferred media is Google+ hop on, if we see there is enough interest we might start doing hangouts and public presentations to leverage this social platform extra features.

If you are looking for GeoServer training, save the date: GeoSolutions will be providing a two days long introduction to GeoServer 6/7 June 2013 in Milan.

The training will be held in Italian by GeoServer core contributors, and will cover a basic introduction to GeoServer, setting up vector and raster data, basic and advanced SLD styling, raster data tuning, integration with Google Earth, tile caching with the integrated GeoWebCache, delivering and filtering vector data with WFS, security, integration with the rest interface and setting up for production. The experience will be hands on, with one computer per participant, with discounts for university students.

If you are interested but cannot make it, or would like to get training in another language, go have a look at the GeoServer training page to find more training opportunities.