GeoTools 15.4 Released

The GeoTools team is pleased to announce GeoTools 15.4.

• geotools-15.4-bin.zip
• geotools-15.4-doc.zip
• geotools-15.4-userguide.zip
• geotools-15.4-project.zip

This release is also available from our Maven repository. This release is made in conjunction with GeoServer 2.9.4.

GeoTools 15.4 is the final maintenance release and is focused on bug fixes. This release is suitable for continued use on production systems. As this is the final GeoTools 15 release we recommend upgrading to GeoTools 16.

Release Notes - GeoTools - Version 15.4

Bug Fixes

• [GEOT-5564] - Invalid CSS font-family causes LabelUnderlineTest to fail on OpenJDK
• [GEOT-5568] - Deadlock on schema parsing
• [GEOT-5594] - AzimuthalEquidistant projection missing parameters
• [GEOT-5600] - Excess label positions computed and painted when using repeat
• [GEOT-5603] - Intermittent build failure with UnfinishedStubbingException in JDBCTransactionStateTest
• [GEOT-5606] - Invalid GML3 GeometryCollection Encoding
• [GEOT-5615] - Make sure image mosaic does not generate raster images with very high raster coordinate values
• [GEOT-5618] - WMSConfiguration misses dependency onto XLinkConfiguration

New Features

• [GEOT-5518] - Add support in NetCDF for dimensions with multiple bands
• [GEOT-5523] - Add support in ImageMosaic for dimensions with multiple bands
• [GEOT-5561] - Add an SLD vendor option to underline labels
• [GEOT-5612] - CRS.getCoordinateOperationFactory scalability bottleneck

Tasks

• [GEOT-5597] - Update GT Pom to depend on ImageIO-EXT 1.1.17

Improvements

• [GEOT-5473] - Add support for "excess granule removal" in image mosaic
• [GEOT-5580] - Use imageio EnhancedImageReadParam instead of ExtendedImageParam
• [GEOT-5592] - Support VRT format on ImageioExt-GDAL plugin
• [GEOT-5595] - Cannot read/write GeoTIFF with Azimuthal_Equidistant projection

For more information please see the release notes (15.4 |15.3 | 15.2 | 15.1 | 15.0 | RC1 | Beta 2 | Beta 1 | M0 ).

About GeoTools 15 

What's new in GeoTools 15:

• Java 8 is now required. Please view the install guide for details.
• Group By feature collection visitor.

GeoTools DB2 Tutorial

A tutorial for DB2 working with GeoTools is now available. This extends the excellent GeoTools QuickStart tutorial to illustrate how to exploit the spatial capabilities provided by the IBM DB2 databases on Windows, *IX, mainframe (z/OS) and cloud (BlueMix dashDB) platforms.

There are also related tutorials for using DB2 with the GeoServer and uDig projects based on GeoTools as well as the GDAL/OGR and QGIS GIS projects.