GeoTools 13.5 Released

GeoTools 13.5 Released

We are pleased to announce the availability of the GeoTools 13.5 release for immediate download:

• geotools-13.5-bin.zip
• geotools-13.5-doc.zip
• geotools-13.5-userguide.zip
• geotools-13.5-project.zip

This release is made in conjunction with GeoServer 2.7.5 and is available from our maven repository.  The next release, 13.6, will mark the planned end of life for this release series, you're advised to start looking at upgrading to 14.x.

Thanks to Ian Turton (from Astun Technology) for packaging this release.

GeoTools 13.5 contains 3 small fixes and improvements compared to 13.4, and it's the current maintenance release recommended for production. The changes include:

Bugs

• [GEOT-4506] - JDBCDataStore initialization not thread-safe
• [GEOT-5330] - Transformer.transformQuery() does not preserve sortBy filter

Improvement

• [GEOT-5327] - Support for 'matchCase' in WFS GetFeature request (v1.0.0)

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