GeoTools 14.1 Released

The GeoTools team is pleased to announce the release of GeoTools 14.1:

• geotools-14.1-bin.zip
• geotools-14.1-doc.zip
• geotools-14.1-userguide.zip
• geotools-14.1-project.zip
• maven repository

This release was made by Ben Caradoc-Davies (Transient) in conjunction with GeoServer 2.8.1.

GeoTools 14.1 is the latest stable release of the 14.x series and is recommended for all new projects.

Fixes and improvements:

• Fixed paged queries with JDBC post filters
• Allow mixing of Z-order and compositing in WMS 
• Support for coverage time dimensions with different names across datasets
• app-schema support for setting string value for complex type extending anyType
• Fixed JAI-Ext scalability issue while iterating over ROIs on machines with high number of CPUs
• Fixed OOM while reading JPEG compressed GeoTIFFs under heavy load
• Support for removing global and local values in EnvFunction filters
• Log the full SQL statement when JDBC data store queries fail
• Many rendering and SLD fixes
• And more ...

 For more information see the release notes.

About GeoTools 14

GeoTools 14 highlights:

• Z order control during map production
• Extend Contrast Enhancement method handling in SLD and CSS
• PostGIS Curve Support (GeoSolutions)
• MongoDB DataStore (Boundless)
• EJML replacement for vecmath
• JAI-Ext, the Open Source replacement for Oracle JAI (GeoSolutions)

For more information see the 14-M0, 14-M1, 14-beta, 14-RC1, 14.0, and 14.1 release notes.

GeoTools 13.4 released

We are pleased to announce the availability of the GeoTools 13.3 release for immediate download:

• geotools-13.4-bin.zip
• geotools-13.4-doc.zip
• geotools-13.4-userguide.zip
• geotools-13.4-project.zip

This release is made in conjunction with GeoServer 2.7.4 and GeoNode 2.4 and is available from our maven repository. 

Thanks to Alessio Fabiani (from GeoSolutions) for packaging this release.

GeoTools 13.4 contains a 7 small fixes and improvements compared to 13.3, and it's the current maintenance release recommended for production. The changes include:

• [GEOT-2603] - Encode PropertyIsLike filter 'matchcase' is ignored
• [GEOT-5212] - DB2 st_dishoint does not work with SELECTIVITY clause
• [GEOT-5254] - http://download.java.net/maven/2 repository is gone
• [GEOT-5268] - DB2 plugin does not store z values for coordinates
• [GEOT-5273] - The encode of LineStringPropertyType in GMLComplexType verify the class of value like a point
• [GEOT-5274] - Badly structured source images can lead to rendering errors when oversampled
• [GEOT-5287] - Render fails to ignore empty geometries in some very specific cases

For detailed information about changes please check the release notes.

About GeoTools 13

GeoTools 13 features and improvements:

• improved ContentDataStore tutorial
• GeoPackage compatibility with QGIS and OGR
• rendering engine now supports color-blending
• color blending and compositing implementation (GeoSolutions)
• new gt-css module for style generation (GeoSolutions)
• new wfs client supporting WFS 2.0 transactions and stored queries