GeoTools 10-RC1 released

The GeoTools community is happy to bring you the latest GeoTools 10-RC1 download:

• geotools-10-RC1-bin.zip
• geotools-10-RC1-doc.zip
• geotools-10-RC1-userguide.zip
• geotools-10-RC1-project.zip

As an alternative to downloading this release has been deployed to our maven repository.

This release is made in conjunction with GeoServer 2.4-RC1 and it's mostly a bug fix release compared to the latest beta, please see the GeoTools 10-RC1 Release Notes for additional details.

We encourage all projects that make use of GeoTools to update and evaluate GeoTools-10-RC1. This is your best opportunity review incoming changes / integration issues before the project issues a stable 10.0 release.

Thanks to Andrea Aime for issuing this release.

About GeoTools 10.x Series

Summary of the new features for the GeoTools 10.x series:

• Structured grid coverage readers allow raster data sources that publish composite data products to expose individual rasters (ie granules) for processing, while still providing a seamless experience for rendering. The mosaic and NetCDF modules are the first ones to implement these new interfaces.
• Efficient support for multiple coverages in GridCoverageReader provides ad-hoc access to raster formats that publish more that one data product. A image mosaic made of NetCDF granules and single file NetCDF sources are the first implementors of these new capabilities
• A new implementation of Shapefile DataStore (based on ContentDataStore superclass). This upgrade should be seamless for all users using DataStoreFactoryFinder. If you explicitly made use of the ShapefileDataStore or IndexedShapefileDataStore class please check the upgrade instructions.
• The transform module graduated to supported status, providing a seamless way to rename, retype and hide SimpleFeatureSource attributes, as well as creating new ones based on OGC Expression
• Additional OGC modules for the WCS 2.0 and WCS 2.0 EO models as well as adding XML parsers and encoders

The 10.x series has a number of research and development activities that may be of interest:

• NetCDF has been updated to take advantage of the new coverage API introduced above
• GeoPackage: a sample implementation of the geopackage spec that is currently being developed by the OGC

While exciting, this functionally is looking for volunteers and/or funding to meet our quality assurance standards. If you are interested please introduce yourself on geotools-devel (or check out options for commercial support).

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

GeoTools 9.5 Released

The GeoTools community is pleased to announce the availability of GeoTools 9.5 for download from source forge:

• geotools-9.5-project.zip
• geotools-9.5-bin.zip
• geotools-9.5-doc.zip
• geotools-9.5-userguide.zip
• geotools-9.5-project.zip

This release is deployed to our OSGeo Maven Repository (see see Quickstart for instructions on using Maven).

This is a milestone release made in conjunction with the GeoServer 2.3.5.

About GeoTools 9.5

This release is the last scheduled release for the GeoTools 9.x series.

• Upgrade to the ImageIO 1.1.7 library.
• Rasters can now be cropped by region of interest shape (not just a bounding box)
• For more information have a look at the GeoTools 9.5 Release Notes

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