Tuesday, February 26, 2013

GeoTools 8.7 Released


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


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