The GeoTools team is pleased to share the availability GeoTools 28.1 :
Fixes and improvements
Bug
GEOT-7077 ClientProperty of a top element not showing
GEOT-7148 Bug in JoiningJDBCFeatureSource / FilterToSQL creates invalid SQL
GEOT-7247 ImageMosaic with RGBA images fails to respect transparency on overlaps
GEOT-7261 WFSContentComplexFeatureSource.getBounds will end up in StackOverflowException
GEOT-7262 ImageMosaic excess granule removal support does not play well with raster ROIs
GEOT-7263 ImageMosaic won't provide the list of mosaicked files as a coverage property, when dealing with heterogenous CRSs
GEOT-7268 GeoTools can create GML output that is not valid XML
GEOT-7271 ImageMosaic should read band statistics from GDAL_METADATA tiff tags, when available
GEOT-7284 Incompatible with Saxon transformer
GEOT-7295 HANA plugin attempts to create polygons consisting of 2 points only
Improvement
GEOT-7241 Expose column comments in FeatureType descriptions on selected JDBC stores
GEOT-7252 Rename GET_COLUMN_REMARKS to GET_REMARKS to accomodate future table comments support
GEOT-7270 GeoTIFFReader should expose GDAL band specific metadata when available
GEOT-7275 Add If_Then_Else support to ExpressionTypeVisitor
GEOT-7277 Expose assets as a selectable property in STACDataStore
GEOT-7279 Allow image mosaic to grab a subset of the feature properties in memory
GEOT-7286 Let SQLDialect decide whether to apply hints on virtual tables
GEOT-7294 Geometry simplification cannot be disabled in HANA plugin
New Feature
GEOT-7281 Add TransformFeatureLocking wrapper