GeoTools 17.3 released

The GeoTools team is pleased to announce the release of GeoTools 17.3:

• geotools-17.3-bin.zip
• geotools-17.3-doc.zip
• geotools-17.3-userguide.zip
• geotools-17.3-project.zip

This release is also available from our maven repository.

This release is made in conjunction with GeoServer 2.11.3.

GeoTools 17.3  marks the switch of the 17.x series to maintenance mode (as 18.x takes the role of stable release) is a recommended upgrade for projects already using the 17.x series. This release comes with 15 assorted fixes and a couple of minor improvements:

• Several improvements in image mosaic and raster rendering (in particular related to mosaics with mixed CRS, filtering and sorting, and direct modification of the mosaic index)
• Avoid rendering empty outputs on raster data when the oversampling factor reaches very high values
• Better mapping of dates in Oracle datastore, in particular, DATE is now mapped to java.sql.TimeStamp
• Better toString for temporal filters (handy if you're debugging some code involving them)
• Fixed an issue preventing to parse GeoJSON having a "crs" key among its properties

And more! For more information please see the release notes (17.3 | 17.2 | 17.1 | 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

Upgrading

• The AbstractDataStore has finally been removed, please transition any custom DataStore implementations to ContentDataStore (tutorial available).

GeoTools 18.0 Released

The GeoTools team is pleased to announce the release of GeoTools 18.0:

• geotools-18.0-bin.zip
• geotools-18.0-doc.zip
• geotools-18.0-userguide.zip
• geotools-18.0-project.zip

This release is also available from our Maven repository.

Thanks to everyone who took part in the code-freeze, monthly bug stomp, or directly making the release. This release is made in conjunction with GeoServer 2.12.0. 

This release is the new stable release and as such users and downstream projects should consider moving from older releases to this one.

Highlights from our issue tracker release-notes:

• GeoPackage store now supports spatial indexes.
• WMTS store added this allows programs to process tiles in a similar way to the existing WMS store.

For more information see past release notes (18-RC1 | 18-beta).

Thanks to Astun Technology for allowing Ian Turton to make this release.