Sunday, October 28, 2012

GeoTools 8.3 Released

The GeoTools community is pleased to anounce the release of GeoTools 8.3, available for download from SourceForge:
This release is also deployed to the OSGeo Maven Repository. For more information on setting up your project with Maven consult the Quickstart.
Thanks for using GeoTools.
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The GeoTools Community

About GeoTools 8.3

GeoTools 8.3 is a stable release focused on bug fixes and improvements:
Bug fixes:
  • [GEOT-4024] - shapefile-ng build fails due to failing tests
  • [GEOT-4204] - Intermittent JDBCJoinTest failures
  • [GEOT-4257] - getBounds in MemoryDataStore throws NPE when store contains features with null geometries
  • [GEOT-4258] - envelope returned by MemoryDataStore getBounds has no coordinate reference system set
  • [GEOT-4266] - Contour Process fails to output value attribute when smoothing is enabled
  • [GEOT-4275] - Heatmap RT does not clip input points correctly
  • [GEOT-4279] - NADCON grid shift factory does not release channels on grid files
  • [GEOT-4287] - Anonymous types handling are broken in app-schema
Improvements
  • [GEOT-4160] - Support parsing srsName in OGC HTTP URI format
  • [GEOT-4264] - Introduce SortBy Clause on ImageMosaicReader
  • [GEOT-4265] - Provide a default granules order on ImageMosaic creation
  • [GEOT-4270] - Make all MouseDragBox methods public
  • [GEOT-4271] - Create new arrow shape suitable for winds and currents
  • [GEOT-4278] - Allow encoding of null value properties in the GeoJSON document
A number of improvements came in from the community via GitHub pull request. Thanks to all who submitted a contribution:
  • Christian for bringing Postgis raster documentation up to date and Adapt PG raster online tests
  • Martin Davis GEOT-4275 (Heatmap RT does not clip input points correctly)
  • Carlo Cancellieri GEOT-4264 (Introduce SortBy Clause on ImageMosaicReader)
  • Michael Bedward GEOT-4270 (Made MouseDragBox constructor and methods public)
  • Sebastian Graca GEOT-4257 (getBounds in MemoryDataStore throws NPE when store contains features with null geometries) and GEOT-4258 (envelope returned by MemoryDataStore getBounds has no coordinate reference system set)

Upgrading from GeoTools 2.7

Upgrade instructions are available for those upgrading from GeoTools 2.7.
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