GeoTools 2.7.3 Released

The GeoTools community is pleased to announce the availability of GeoTools 2.7.3 for download from source forge:

• geotools-2.7.3-project.zip
• geotools-2.7.3-bin.zip
• geotools-2.7.3-welcome.zip
• geotools-2.7.3-userguide.zip
• geotools-2.7.3-doc.zip

If you are using Maven this release is deployed to our OSGeo Maven Repository: For more information on setting up your project with Maven see the Quickstart (included in the welcome documentation pack above).

This is a maintenance release focused on quality made conjunction with GeoServer 2.1.2.

With stable releases there is always a larger pool of people making contributions to thank. While it may not sound as exciting as listing the latest cool new features; it is this work on Quality that makes the GeoTools library a trusted success.

• Rudi Hochmeister was kind enough to sort out connection pool handling for ArcSDE datastore.
• Serhat Gulcicek has worked on the number of domain types the PostGIS DataStore can handle
• Gabriel Roldan has been working a bit of WFSDataStore and has the honour of fixing the oldest bug of this release (GEOT-465 first requested 2005).
• Gabriel has also been working the WMS client code allowing to better handle custom attributes advertised in the server capabilities document.
• Jan De Moerloose has figured out a very tricky fix for the handling of patch patterns across tile borders.
• Fernando González Cortés has fixed the handling of null shapefile records.
• Andrea has optimised the recode, categorise and interpolate functions (which are heavily used when creating good custom styles)
• And 75 more in the GeoTools 2.7.3 Release Notes

Finally thanks to Andrea and GeoSolutions for putting this release out; as always their work is appreciated.

Enjoy,
The GeoTools Community
http://geotools.org