GeoTools 8.2 Released

The GeoTools community is pleased to annonce the release of GeoTools 8.2, available for download from SourceForge:

• geotools-8.2-bin.zip
• geotools-8.2-doc.zip
• geotools-8.2-userguide.zip
• geotools-8.2-project.zip
• GeoTools 8.2 Release Notes

This release is also deployed to the OSGeo Maven Repository. For more information on setting up your project with Maven consult the Quickstart.

About GeoTools 8.2

GeoTools 8.2 is primarily a bug fix release with the following issues being fixed:

• GEOT-4230 - Histogram operation does not pass through low,high,numBin parameters
• GEOT-4254 - CustomPaletteBuilder dies on translate BufferedImage
• GEOT-4255 - Reprojecting feature collection fails if bursa-wolf params are missing in either source or target crs
• GEOT-4263 - TimeParser in ImageMosaic is too lenient
• GEOT-4005 - Provide logging for cascaded WMS queries

A number of improvements came in from the community via GitHub pull request. Thanks to all who submitted a contribution:

• Davide Savazzi for fixing ContentFeatureCollection isEmpty method, and adding logging for cascaded WMS queries
• Tim Schaub for improving exception messages
• Victor Olaya for reviewing function parameter names
• Peter hopfgartner for setting up Reprojecting feature collection to use a wider range of transforms

Upgrading from GeoTools 2.7

For those migrating from GeoTools 2.7, upgrade instructions are available. No additional GeoTools 2.7.x releases are scheduled. 

Thanks for using GeoTools.

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The GeoTools Team

GeoTools 8.1 Released

The Geotools community is pleased to announce the release of Geotools 8.1 to  sourceforge downloads:

• geotools-8.1-bin.zip
• geotools-8.1-doc.zip
• geotools-8.1-userguide.zip
• geotools-8.1-project.zip
• GeoTools 8.1 Release Notes

This release is also deployed to our OSGeo Maven Repository. For more information on setting up your project with Maven, see the Quickstart  included in the user guide.

We would like to thank all the developers, users and contributor that have helped to make this release possible.

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

About GeoTools 8.1

Geotools 8.1 is a stable release made in conjunction with GeoServer 2.2-RC3 and uDig 1.3.2.

This is a bug fix release with a small number of improvements:

• [GEOT-4126] App-schema: Enable specifying row number in getting sourceExpressionw for denormalised rows
• [GEOT-4216] Add SplitPolygon, Polygonize processes
• [GEOT-4217] H2DataStoreFactory does not create a manageable data source
• [GEOT-4236] Allow external PRJ to override internal CRS definition
• For additional information (and 11 bug fixes) please see the GeoTools 8.1 Release Notes.

About The GeoTools 8 Series

The GeoTools 8 is the stable release series recommended for production systems.

New features available in Geotools 8:

• Great new user guide with live codes examples, tutorials and build instructions
• Build improvements with support for Update to Java 6 and support for either Maven 2 or Maven 3
• Filter 2.0 Support consisting of
  • New ILIKE statement
  • Support Multi-Valued Attributes in Filter Comparison Operators
  • Temporal Filters
  • Describe Function with FunctionName
  • Detailed Argument and Return Info for FunctionName
  • ResourceId support for versioned data
• Add support for joins to the WFS protocol
• Function lookup using qualified Name
• Separate MapContext from MapViewport allowing multiple tiles to use the same map definition
• For more information please review the GeoTools 8 change control proposals

For those migrating from GeoTools 2.7, upgrade instructions are available. No additional GeoTools 2.7.x releases are scheduled.