The GeoServer team is pleased to announce the release of GeoServer 2.1.2. This is mostly a bug-fixing release, with a number of minor improvements in the administration UI and REST configuration. There are however a couple new features that you might be interested in: The ability to mark a layer as “non advertised”. Layers flagged this way won’t [...]
GeoServer developers are considering a switch to Java 6 as the minimum requirement starting with GeoServer 2.2.0: this will give us an improved API to rely on, faster development cycle and a more common development environment setup (finding Java 5 is getting increasingly difficult, especially on some platforms). The current stable series, 2.1.x, will remain [...]
As GeoServer popularity raises 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 [...]
The GeoServer team is happy to announce the fifth release candidate for 2.1, now available for download. This release brings some bug fixes and addresses a few residual regressions compared to the old 2.0.x series. In no particular order: While GeoServer 2.1 uses extended CQL (ECQL) for all the CQL related activities, it now also preserve [...]
This week has been a busy one for the GeoServer team with two releases coming out. The community is happy to announce the release of both 2.0.3 and 2.1-RC3. GeoServer 2.0.3 is a maintenance release for the 2.0.x branch and contains over 60 fixes and a few small new features. For those who have already upgraded [...]
Putting a public OGC server in production can be a daunting task. Dynamic web GIS requests (be they WMS or WFS) consume significantly more resources than a regular web site, making the service quite demanding in terms of memory, CPU, and bandwith consumption. When a service becomes popular, requests start fighting for limited resources and [...]
When designing a map, sometimes you want to render something that is related to the geometries you have at hand, but which is not specifically the geometries themselves. Maybe you want to highlight the end of a line, create a drop shadow effect, or make the vertices that make up a geometry more evident to [...]
Ever had the need to format some text in SLD, or to perform complex filter in WFS, and noticed that the basic elements of the OGC Filter specification left you wanting for more? If so, welcome to the club. One thing few people know is that both SLD and WFS filtering capabilities can be extended [...]
The GeoServer community is happy to announce the formation of an official Testing Team. The Testing Team is a set of users and developers that will install and run impending GeoServer releases prior to their official distribution. The purpose is to provide real-world testing, something that developers alone can not provide. Approximately once a month, [...]
The latest stable GeoServer version, 1.7.5, was released with a small but critical bug that slows down rendering when a very small polygon or a line is displayed at a high zoom level (so that the displayed area is a very small fraction of the whole). The slowdown increases as one zooms in, and eventually [...]