GeoTools 16.3 Released

The GeoTools team is pleased to announce the release of GeoTools 16.3:

• geotools-16.3-bin.zip
• geotools-16.3-doc.zip
• geotools-16.3-userguide.zip
• geotools-16.3-project.zip

This release is also available from our maven repository.

This release is made in conjunction with GeoServer 2.10.3.

GeoTools 16.3 is the first maintenance release of the 16.x series and 17.0 is now recommended for all new projects. In future this branch will only receive bug fixes but no new features will be added.


The GeoTools team is grateful for Astun Technology for sponsoring this release.

Features and Improvements

Features & Improvements

• gs:PointStacker now has an attribute that holds the bounding box of the clustered features 
• TransparencyFill process has been added to the unsupported/process-raster module 
• GeoTools now uses Java 7 Base64 Encoder / Decoders throughout. 

Bug

• Shapefile attribute (DBF) DbaseFileReader reads numeric empty values as zero 
• Mollweide projection misses parameter
• PostGIS sql dialect fails to encode 3D bbox filters
• GridCoveargeRenderer.renderImage may throw a NPE
• ProjectionHandler.getQueryEnvelopes can return invalid envelopes for transverse mercator
• Geometries not created when using WFS data store 2.0.0
• Band selection via request param and RBG expansion are incompatible
• ImageWorker should invalidate statistics after a Crop
• Shapefile dumper throws a NPE on NULL geometry values
• Crop and rescale to bytes fail to propagate nodata values
• Incorrect validation when parsing XML schema element declaration with ref attribute

And more! For more information please see the release notes (16.3 | 16.2 | 16.1 | 16.0 | 16-RC1 | M0 | beta).

GeoTools 17.0 released

The GeoTools team is pleased to announce the release of GeoTools 17.0:

• geotools-17.0-bin.zip
• geotools-17.0-doc.zip
• geotools-17.0-userguide.zip
• geotools-17.0-project.zip

This release is also available from our maven repository.

This release is made in conjunction with GeoWebCache 1.11.0 and GeoServer 2.17.0

GeoTools 17.0 is the current stable series recommended for all new projects, while 16.x series moves to maintenance mode.

Features and Improvements

• New SLD vendor option to underline labels
• The chance of having CRS.lookupEPSGCode returning a match using a fast search has been significantly increased
• A new set of well known marks helps with QGIS interoperability
• It is now possible to encode complex features not following the GML object-property rules
• Some performance improvements when filling tiny polygons
• Improved concurrency of SoftValueHashMap, to the benefit of various subsystems, for example particular the referencing one under load
• JDBC callback interface allows to track execution of SQL queries and perform statistisc on them
• Relax visibility of StyledShapePainter to allow override of vector fill in subclasses
• The YSLD styling module has been promoted to supported land

Community modules

• The Mapbox style module provides support a new javascript based styling language 

Upgrading

• The AbstractDataStore has finally been removed after years of availability of a better substitute (ContentDataStore)

And more! For more information please see the release notes (17.0 | 17-RC1 | 17-beta).

About GeoTools 17

• 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