GeoTools 13.0 Released
The
GeoTools community is pleased to announce the availability
of GeoTools 13.0, the first stable release of the GeoTools 13 series.
Download GeoTools 13:
This
release is also available from our maven
repository, and is made in conjunction with GeoWebCache 1.7.0 and GeoServer
2.7.0.Download GeoTools 13:
New Features and Improvements
The following new features and improvements are available in this release:
Data Stores
- GeoPackage support is now compatible with QGIS and OGR.
- A new gt-solr data store is available for working with with Apache Solr. Thanks to Andrea Aime and Justin Deoliveira for this 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 Brundage for this work.
- AbstractDataStore is now deprecated. Please make plans to migrate to ContentDataStore. There is an extensive ContentDataStore tutorial to help with your migration.
- PropertyDataStore has now been ported to use ContentDataStore, and a wide range of issues (readers, events, transactions) have been resolved for all DataStore implementations. Thanks to Torben Barsballe for this extensive QA work.
CSS Module
- The gt-css module is a brand-new implementation of CSS-style support, now written in Java. Thanks to Andrea Aime for bringing this exciting approach to styling within easy reach of Java developers. Here is a quick code example:
Stylesheet ss = CssParser.parse(css);
CssTranslator translator = new CssTranslator();
Style style - translator.translate(ss);
Rendering Engine
- 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 named
"firstMatch". This vendorExtension will grab the first rule you specify. This can in many situations help you avoid more complicated logic for style rules.
<sld:VendorOption name="ruleEvaluation">first</sld:VendorOption>
- Anchor points are now supported. This is done in SLD with the AnchorPoint tag:
<LabelPlacement>
<PointPlacement>
<AnchorPoint>
<AnchorPointX>
<PropertyName>X</PropertyName>
</AnchorPointX>
<AnchorPointY>
<PropertyName>Y</PropertyName>
</AnchorPointY>
</AnchorPoint>
</PointPlacement>
</LabelPlacement>
WFS Client
The gt-wfs client has improved:
- Better compatibility with MapServer.
- Extensive work has been done to support WFS 2.0 transactions. Thanks to Niels Charlier for this work.
- The gt-wfs client now supports WFS 2.0 stored queries. Thanks to Sampo Savolainen for this work.
And more
Documentation continues to improve, now with a complete function list. For a full list of improvements and changes in GeoTools 13, please see the full release notes.
Documentation continues to improve, now with a complete function list. For a full list of improvements and changes in GeoTools 13, please see the full release notes.
