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!