Author Archives: Justin Deoliveira

GeoServer 1.7.0 Released

The GeoServer team is proud to announce the release of GeoServer 1.7.0, available here for download. This is a very big release for GeoServer as the 1.7.x series brings some exciting new features and improvements.
Security in 1.7 has been improved by allowing access control at the layer/feature type level, in addition to the service level. [...]

GeoServer Featured in GIS Development

Early this year I submitted an article to GIS Development and it got published in the February issue!! You can check out the article here. Let us know what you think.

GeoServer 1.6.0-RC3 Released!

We are happy to announce the third release candidate for 1.6.0. You can grab it from SourceForge.
That coveted 1.6.0 release is getting closer and closer and we are almost there. The previous release candidate brought out some performance related issues. A memory leak issue and a problem with filter parsing leading to stack overflows. [...]

GeoServer 1.6.0-RC2 Released!

We are happy to announce the second release candidate of GeoServer 1.6.0. You can download the release from SourceForge.
As usual this release candidate brings a heap of bug fixes, with a few minor improvements. Output formats such as KML, SVG, and GeoRSS have been tightened up fixing a few minor bugs. Backend issues such as [...]

GeoServer Hits 10,000 Downloads!

As many know, GeoServer 1.5.3 was released this past August. Well the numbers are in and it appears that 1.5.3 was warmly welcomed by the masses. August reported a record breaking 10,550 downloads of GeoServer in one month!!
For more information check out the SourceForge statistics over this year which show the August spike. Also of [...]

FOSS4G07 Drawing Near

The one month countdown to FOSS4G07 has begun. The conference is running from September 24 – 27 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The GeoServer community will be quite active at this years conference with a total of 6 presentations and 1 workshop scheduled! The following is a list of the presentations, be sure to check [...]

GeoRSS Coming Soon!

The GeoServer team has been hard at work fixing bugs for the upcoming 1.5.2 release. However its not all bug fixes. One very exciting new feature is the addition of GeoRSS as an output format.
The addition of GeoRSS makes the process of creating your own map mashup with GeoServer as simple as ever. Simply point [...]

Welcome SoC Students

As many may know GeoServer is one of the many open source projects involved in this years Google Summer of Code initiative. We are very pleased to announce that two GeoServer based projects were accepted and would like to congratulate those students who submitted proposals on a job well done.
Christopher Whitney will be working on [...]

GeoServer 1.5.0 Released

The GeoServer Project is proud to announce the release of version 1.5.0. This release turns GeoServer in to a complete solution for serving any type of spatial data, as the primary focus has been support for raster formats, starting with GeoTiff, ArcGrid, World Images, GTOPO30, and image mosiacs and pyramids. As always GeoServer [...]

Translators Apply Here

As we get closer and closer to GeoServer 1.5.0 it is time to make sure that our translations are up to date. Currently GeoServer maintains translations for the French, German, Spanish, and Japanese languages. We have been able to so with kind contributions from our users. And we are always looking to expand in order [...]

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