GeoTools 17.5 released

The GeoTools team is pleased to announce the release of GeoTools 17.5:

• geotools-17.5-bin.zip
• geotools-17.5-doc.zip
• geotools-17.5-project.zip
• geotools-17.5-userguide.zip

This release, which is also available from the GeoTools Maven repository, is made in conjunction with GeoServer 2.11.5.

GeoTools 17.5 is the last maintenance release of the 17.x series, time to consider upgrading!
The release mainly fixes bugs but also includes some enhancements: 

• Allow group extraction in image mosaic regular expression based property collector
• Allow overriding LabelCache in renderer
• Allow MetaBufferEstimator to work against a specific feature (to calculate sizes based on attribute values)

For more information please see the release notes (17.5 | 17.4 | 17.3 | 17.2 | 17.1 | 17.0 | 17-RC1 | 17-beta).

About GeoTools 17

• The wfs-ng module has now replaced gt-wfs.
• The NetCDF module now uses NetCDF-Java 4.6.6.
• Image processing provided by JAI-EXT 1.0.15.
• YLSD module providing a plain-text representation of styling.

Upgrading

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