GeoTools 16.2 Released

The GeoTools team is pleased to announce the release of GeoTools 16.2:

• geotools-16.2-bin.zip
• geotools-16.2-doc.zip
• geotools-16.2-userguide.zip
• geotools-16.2-project.zip

This release is also available from our maven repository.

This release is made in conjunction with GeoWebCache 1.10.2 and GeoServer 2.10.2.

GeoTools 16.2 is the latest stable release of the 16.x series and is recommended for all new projects.

Features and Improvements

• Graduate YSLD module to supported status
• Implement Cylindrical Equal Area Projection
• Relax visibility of StyledShapePainter to allow override of vector fill in subclasses 

Bug Fixes

• Improve label positioning when using follow line vendor option
• Fix CRS.getCoordinateOperationFactory scalability bottleneck
• Make GridCoverarageRenderer turn nodata/out of ROI pixels into transparent before rendering onto Graphics2D
• Various ImageMosaic optimizations and bugfixes

And more! For more information please see the release notes (16.2 | 16.1 | 16.0 | 16-RC1 | M0 | beta).

About GeoTools 16

• The wfs-ng module is now a drop in replacement and will be replacing gt-wfs
• The NetCDF module now uses NetCDF-Java 4.6.6