GeoTools 20.1 Released

The GeoTools team is happy to announce the release of GeoTools 20.1:

• geotools-20.1-bin.zip
• geotools-201-doc.zip
• geotools-20.1-project.zip
• geotools-20.1-userguide.zip
• maven repository

This release is a stable release and is recommend for new development and production systems.

This release is made in conjunction with GeoServer 2.14.1.

Improvements

• GML respects formatting options for optimized or 
• ImageWorker allows omitting alpha band when converting from index color model to component color model.
• Image mosaic property collector to record current time

Fixes

• GeoPackage performance improved when working with large rasters
• GML 3.1 fix for xml:id encoding
• Fix for oracle select bounds query
• Use of tile cache for GeoPackage mosaic operation
• Interpolation ignore alpha band when scaling images
• For more details see release notes (20.1 | 20.0 | 20-RC)

About GeoTools 20 Series

• JTS Upgrade to version 1.16 and Migrate to JSR-363, see update instructions for details.
• Channel selection name allows expression
• Jiffle map algebra
• PostGIS store improvements optimized to encode additional functions directly into SQL, support for array data types, and geometries with measure.