The GeoServer Community is pleased to announce a new section of the website devoted to Training. It’s yet another sign of the maturity of the GeoServer project, as there are an increasing number of options for people getting started with GeoServer or looking to advance their skills. Depending on interest we also hope to have regular blog posts about upcoming trainings.

At this time there is an Advanced GeoServer training put on by OpenGeo on November 19th, next monday. It will be conducted over the web, in a three hour interactive session, so anyone can join. The class will assume basic knowledge of GeoServer, focusing on new techniques to get more out of geospatial data served on the web. Topics include the REST configuration API, Web Processing Service, rendering transformations like heatmaps and barnes surface interpolation, SQL Views and more. Please join, as interest in early trainings will help more companies be able to put on more regular classes.

Below you’ll find some highlights of GeoServer news and content from the last month. If we’ve missed anything please comment on this post and we’ll make sure to include your news in the upcoming month.

• Adding Layers to GeoServer Using the REST API (OpenGeo)

• The State Of GeoServer 2012 (Jody Garnett)

• Creating dynamic contour maps with server-side processing (OpenGeo)

• GeoServer 2.2.1 Released (GeoServer)

The GeoServer team is happy to announce the release of GeoServer 2.2.1, now available for download.

A lot of fixes, improved security sub-system and new stable version of GeoWebcache included.

Enjoy!

The GeoServer Team.

Changes

1. GEOS-5279 (detail)

2. Improved IM filter junit tests (detail)

3. added check for null readParameters and fix format (detail)

4. Layout fixes for IE (detail)

5. Updating developer guide to require JDK 6 (detail)

On the GeoServer developer list we’ve been discussing reducing browser support in the GeoServer web administration console - browser-based clients using OpenLayers and other JavaScript mapping libraries would be unaffected but the admin console would have support for fewer browsers.  Please help inform this decision by letting us know which browsers you are using to configure GeoServer at this web form:

https://docs.google.com/a/opengeo.org/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDhVTFB6aHJjR3MyU1k1VVlGQmtVbFE6MQ

We’ll review the results in one week. Thanks!

There was some very interesting GeoServer-related content published  throughout this summer and into the fall. Individuals and organizations are working hard on the project, and making news daily. Below you’ll find some highlights from the last few months:

• GeoServer 2.2 Released (GeoServer)

• GeoServer has moved to GitHub (GeoServer)

• Surface Interpolation in GeoServer (OpenGeo)

• Using GeoServer’s Split Polygon WPS Process - Part II (OpenGeo)

• Serving and filtering #GeoJSON from #GeoServer (Smathermather)

• Thematic map creation with SLD (OpenGeo)

• Troubleshooting a large GeoServer Deployment (GeoSolutions)

If we’ve missed anything comment on this post and we’ll make sure to check out your blog for next month.