October 30, 2007 – 11:53 pm
The GeoServer team is pleased to announce the availability of the latest stable release, 1.5.4.
This release mostly cleans up stuff for Google Earth and Maps. Generated maps now line up perfectly on Google Maps, with a fix to the projection code. This allows us to replace the Google Maps overlay demo with OpenLayers, so it [...]
October 29, 2007 – 10:33 am
The GeoServer team is pleased to announce what should be the last beta release in the 1.6 series. So please download, help us test, test, test, and RC1 should come out soon.
Beta4 has a number of great improvements, all across the board. The versioning support has had a number of improvements and bug fixes, soon [...]
September 24, 2007 – 7:16 pm
Just quick note, the GeoServer team just put on a new workshop at FOSS4G. The conference is just getting started, but after we finish up here we’ll work in the coming weeks to make those materials more generic and available to all. For those who want a preview, or those in the workshop who want [...]
September 18, 2007 – 2:59 pm
The GeoServer Project is pleased to announce the release of the third beta of 1.6.0, now available for download. The main focus of this release has been a number of performance improvements, done by Andrea Aime. These center around the WMS, and can be seen most clearly on layers that do not have any labels. [...]
September 12, 2007 – 6:00 pm
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 [...]
August 28, 2007 – 1:05 pm
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 [...]
August 14, 2007 – 11:12 am
We are pleased to announce the release of GeoServer 1.5.3. This version represents the culmination of a ton of hard work to make GeoServer more compatible with the new formats gaining great popularity in the rapidly expanding geo world. Foremost among the improvements is a number of advances in our support for Google [...]
So we were hoping to do a big announcement of GeoServer 1.5.2 today. But our ambitious bug fixes and improvements (over 80 issues) has come back to haunt us, and taught us an important lesson about doing release candidates first, even if 1.5.2-RC1 doesn’t sound great to our ears. We squeezed in lots [...]
The GeoServer Project is pleased to announce that we have been certified compliant by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) for the Web Coverage Service 1.0 specification. The majority of this great work was contributed by GeoSolutions, and we are pleased that the quality is now completely certified by the OGC, as it passes all [...]
The Open Planning Project (TOPP), the main sponsor of GeoServer development, has just hired Tim Schaub, an active member of the OpenLayers Project Steering Committee. He will start work July 23. GeoServer has always been focused on standards on the server side, and its been great to see OpenLayers emerge as an [...]