GeoTools 8.7 Released

The GeoTools community is pleased to announce the availability of GeoTools 8.7 for download from source forge:

• geotools-8.7-bin.zip
• geotools-8.7-doc.zip
• geotools-8.7-userguide.zip
• geotools-8.7-project.zip

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 8.7

This is a bug fix release containing fixes and improvements, including:

• Setting PK_METADATA_TABLE for JDBCDatastore without schema does not end in illegal statement anymore [GEOT-4192]
• "property" filter function did not work anymore after style and filter attribute extractor got updated to support complex features  [GEOT-4393]
• Added an optional geometry_columsn metadata table for the SQLServer store  [GEOT-4252]
• Speeded up expensive/redundant table existance check in MetadataTablePrimaryKeyFinder [GEOT-4391] 
• some GeometryBuilder related fixes [GEOT-4373] and [GEOT-4377]
• ReprojectingFilterVisitor didn't reproject function parameters [GEOT-4378]
• Teradata couldn't resolve tesselation index view [GEOT-4379]
• Oracle dialect use of SDO_TUNE.EXTENT_OF - didn't include schema [GEOT-4383]
• SE 1.1 graphic fill was not being parsed [GEOT-4384]
• Filter.INCLUDE and Filter.EXCLUDE were not correctly handled in the WFS 1.0 protocol [GEOT-4389]
• PropertyCollector parsing needs to ignore leading and trailing spaces [GEOT-4392]

Full details are available in Jira's release notes.

Upgrading from GeoTools 2.7

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

Thanks for using GeoTools, and Enjoy!

The GeoTools Community
http://geotools.org

GeoTools 9.0-RC1 Released

The GeoTools community is pleased to announce the availability of GeoTools 9.0-RC1 for download from sourceforge:

• Geotools-9.0-RC1-bin.zip
• Geotools-9.0-RC1-doc.zip
• Geotools-9.0-RC1-userguide.zip
• Geotools-9.0-RC1-project.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 userguide documentation pack above). 

This is the first 9.0 release candidate made in conjunction with the GeoServer 2.3-RC1. It contains a number of bug fixes and improvements since 9.0-beta1. See the change log for more details.

Thanks to Robin Pradel for submitting a patch for GEOT-4192, fixing a bug that resulted in illegal SQL statements when setting a value for the primary key metadata table including a schema. 

The GeoTools 9.0 series contains API changes. Developers are encouraged to review the upgrade instructions prior to use. 

Release notes for GeoTools 9.0 series:

• GeoTools 9.0-RC1 Release Notes
• GeoTools 9.0-beta1 Release Notes
• GeoTools 9.0-M0 Release Notes

Thanks for using GeoTools!

GeoTools 9.0-beta1 released

The GeoTools community is pleased to announce the availability of GeoTools 9.0-beta1 for download from source forge:

• Geotools-9.0-beta1-bin.zip
• Geotools-9.0-beta1-doc.zip
• Geotools-9.0-beta1-userguide.zip
• Geotools-9.0-beta1-project.zip/download

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 userguide documentation pack above).

This is a beta release made in conjunction with the GeoServer 2.3-beta1. This release is contains both new features and important simplifications to the GeoTools API:

• This release is feature complete and entering release candidate status next month. This represents an important policy shift to a time-boxed release model resulting in a new release every six months. This policy shift provides consistency and will assist in integration planning for the wider GeoTools community.
• Feature Collection Clean up: Has retired several methods from FeatureCollection that were only implemented for in memory feature collections. This work also included a review of all FeatureCollection implementation testing for consistency. Thanks to Jody Garnett and Andrea Aime for this work.
• The Vector Grid module has graduated from the "unsupported" staging area and is now included as an extension. Thanks to Micheal Bedward for championing this work.
• General support for complex features has been factored out into the gt-complex module for reuse.
• FeatureCollection, FeatureIteartor and FeatureReader are Java 7 ready with support for try-with-resource syntax.
• Partial 3D data support has been added with direct support for PostGIS, Oracle, and Property DataStore. Thanks to Andrea Aime for the initial implementation, with a followup NT LPE for Oracle support.
• Thanks to Niels Charlier for putting together ReferenceEnvelope3D allowing us to query three-dimensional datasets.
• WMS client support has greatly improved with WMS 1.3.0 now enabled by default during version negotiation.
• New OGC models have been added for WCS 2.0 and OWS 2.0 along with XML support.
• Updated to latest ImageIO-Ext 1.1.6 and JTS 1.13 release

As this release contains API changes developers are encouraged to review the upgrade instructions prior to use.

Release notes for GeoTools 9.0 series:

• GeoTools 9.0-beta1 Release Notes
• GeoTools 9.0-M0 Release Notes

Finally thanks to Jody Garnett and LISAsoft for this release.
Enjoy,
The GeoTools Community
http://geotools.org