GeoTools 31.6 released

The GeoTools team is pleased to announce the release of the latest stable version of GeoTools 31.6:

• geotools-31.6-bin.zip
• geotools-31.6-doc.zip
• geotools-31.6-userguide.zip
• geotools-31.6-project.zip

This release is also available from the OSGeo Maven Repository and is made in conjunction with GeoServer 2.25.6 and GeoWebCache 1.25.4.

We are grateful to Peter Smythe (AfriGIS) for carrying out the release.

Release notes

See Release Notes from 31.6

Bug

GEOT-7545 Wrong log level comparison in LogbackLogger#isLoggable

GEOT-7698 GeoTIFF and image mosaic do not handle COGs with masks properly

GEOT-7702 Style doesn't match filter if there are more than one "or-combined" date filter on the same PropertyName (SLD)

GEOT-7706 Style doesn't match filter if there are more than one "or-combined" date filter on the same PropertyName (SLD)

GEOT-7708 Intersection test against curves can fail to return correct results, with PostGIS, due to accuracy issues

GEOT-7711 Incompatible sl4j and logback libraries result in class not found LoggingEventAware

Improvement

GEOT-7718 WMS Parser can no longer hande IGN due to ordering issue in LogoURL

Task

GEOT-7677 Upgrade log4j to 2.24.1 and slf4j to 2.0.16

GEOT-7696 Apply Palantir Java format on GeoTools

GEOT-7710 Update Logback from 1.3.12 to 1.5.14

GeoTools 28.6 Released

The GeoTools shares the release of GeoTools 28.6 available for Java 8 applications: 

• geotools-2.28.6-bin.zip     
• geotools-2.28.6-doc.zip     
• geotools-2.28.6-userguide.zip     
• geotools-2.28.6-project.zip

This release is also available from the OSGeo Maven Repository and is made to support the upcoming GeoNetwork 4.2.12 release.

This release provides Java 8 artifacts for CVE-2024-36404. The vulnerability report has been updated to allow Java 8 applications avoid being flagged by security scans.

We are grateful to Jody Garnett (GeoCat) for making this release on behalf of the GeoNetwork project.

Release notes

Security Considerations

GEOT-7587 Improve handling of XPath expressions (CVE-2024-36404)

Bug

GEOT-7444 HanaGeographyOnlineTest.testBounds is failing in CI

GEOT-7458 JDBCDataStore: Unique visitor not always compatible with sortBy

GEOT-7490 WPS Intersection NPE when the Return Value Should be a Point

GEOT-7496 gt-xsd-fes fails to encode PropertyIsBetween

GEOT-7497 gt-wfs-ng ignores maxFeatures on WFS 2.0

Improvement

GEOT-7491 ShapeFileDataStore should use GeometryFactory of DataStore

Task

GEOT-7290 Visual difference for ReprojectGoogleMercatorLargerThanWorld test on aarch64

GEOT-7451 Upgrade org.json:json to 20230618

GEOT-7594 Bump org.postgresql:postgresql from 42.6.0 to 42.7.2

GEOT-7714 Bump ch.qos.logback:logback-classic from 1.2.11 to 1.3.12