GeoTools

Thursday, September 14, 2017

The GeoTools team is pleased to announce the release of GeoTools 18-beta:

This release is also available from our Maven repository.
This release is made in conjunction with GeoServer 2.12-beta.

Highlights from our issue tracker release-notes:

Support NetCDF >4 dimensions, including runtime
Make MongoDB usable as a data store in app-schema
Allow CSS scale denominators to use SI metric prefixes, "k", "M" and "G"
Create a CoverageReader for remote WMTS layers
New vendor option to control label character spacing
ExternalGraphicFactory does not have a general way to reset caches
Upgrade PostgreSQL JDBC driver to 42.1.1
Remove "-gt-" prefixes from CSS vendor options
GeoPackage tile order inverted along y-axis
SLDParser / SLDTransformer fails to round-trip empty nodes.
GridCoverageRenderer can miss part of an image when the source data overlaps the dateline on both sides

For more information see the 18-beta release notes.