Thursday, February 19, 2015

GeoTools 13-RC1 Released

The GeoTools community is pleased to announce the availability of GeoTools 13-RC1, the first release candidate of the GeoTools 13 series:

This release is also available from our maven repository, and is made in conjunction with GeoWebCache 1.7-RC1 and GeoServer 2.7-RC1.

We would like your feedback on these new features and improvements:
  • GeoPackage support is now compatible with QGIS and OGR.
  • The rendering engine has been overhauled with two new features:
    • Color-blending has been introduced as both a FeatureTypeStyle and Symbolizer vendorExtension allowing for a range of special effects. Thanks to Cleveland Metro Parks for this improvement.
    • A FeatureTypeStyle vendorExtension "firstMatch" will stop at the first rule.
    • Anchor points are now supported.
  • The gt-css module is a brand-new implementation of css style support written in Java. Thanks to Andrea for brining this exciting approach to styling within easy reach of Java developers.
  • A new gt-solr data store is available for working with with Apache Solr 
  • AbstractDataStore is now deprecated - please make plans to migrate to ContentDataStore.
    • There is an extensive ContentDataStore Tutorial to help with your migration. Thanks to Travis for updating the initial tutorial used at FOSS4G.
    • PropertyDataStore has now been ported to use ContentDataStore, and a wide range of issues have been resolved during extensive QA testing (readers, events, transactions). We would like to thank Torben for this extensive work.
  • CSVDataStore has been improved with write access and the ability to work with different kinds of CSV files (including lat/lon and WKT). Thanks to Travis for this work.
  • The gt-wfs client has improved:
    • Better compatibility with MapServer.
    • Extensive work has been done to support WFS 2.0 transacations. Thanks to Niels for this work.
    • The gt-wfs client now supports WFS 2.0 stored queries. Thanks Sampo for this work.
  • Documentation continues to improve, now with a complete function list.
  • For a full list of improvements changes 13-beta, please see the Jira release notes

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Tuesday, February 17, 2015

GeoTools 11.5 Released

The GeoTools team is happy to announce the release of GeoTools 11.5 available for download.
This release is a maintenance release for the GeoTools 11 series. Check out the change log for all of the details.

This is the last release of the GeoTools 11 series. Migrate to GeoTools 12 for the latest stable release.
 
Thanks for using GeoTools!
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Thursday, February 5, 2015

GeoTools 13-beta Released

The GeoTools community is happy to announce the latest  GeoTools 13-beta download:

This release is also available from our maven repository. This release is made in conjunction with GeoServer 2.7-beta.

This is a beta release of GeoTools and we would like your feedback on the new features outlined below.
  • GeoPackage support is now compatible with QGIS and OGR.
  • The rendering engine has been overhauled with two new features:
    • Color-blending has been introduced as both a FeatureTypeStyle and Symbolizer vendorExtension allowing for a range of special effects. Thanks to Cleveland Metro Parks for this improvement.
    • A FeatureTypeStyle vendorExtension "firstMatch" will stop at the first rule
    • Anchor points are now supported.
  • The gt-css module is a brand-new implementation of css style support written in Java. Thanks to Andrea for brining this exciting approach to styling within easy reach of java developers.
  • A new gt-solr data store is available for working with with Apache Solr 
  • AbstractDataStore is now deprecated - please make plans to migrate to ContentDataStore.
    • There is an extensive ContentDataStore Tutorial to help with your migration. Thanks to Travis for updating the initial tutorial used at FOSS4G.
    • PropertyDataStore has now been ported to use ContentDataStore, and a wide range of issues have been resolved during extensive QA testing (readers, events, transactions). We would like to thank Torben for this extensive work.
  • CSVDataStore has been improved with write access and the ability to work with different kinds of CSV files (lat/lon, WKT, etc...). Thanks to Travis for this work.
  • The gt-wfs client has improved:
    • Improved compatibility with MapServer
    • Extensive work has been done to support WFS 2.0 transacations. Thanks to Niels for this work.
    • Can now work with WFS 2.0 stored queries. Thanks Sampo for this work.
  • Documentation continues to improve, now with a complete function list.
  • For the extensive list of improvements check the release notes
Thanks to Jody and Travis (from Boundless Victoria) for this release.

About GeoTools 13

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