GeoTools 25.3 Released

The GeoTools team is pleased to announce the release GeoTools 25.3:

• geotools-25.3-bin.zip
• geotools-25.3-doc.zip
• geotools-25.3-userguide.zip
• geotools-25.3-project.zip

GeoTools 25.3 is published to repo.osgeo.org for direct build integration. This release is made in conjunction with GeoServer 2.19.3. The GeoTools team is grateful to Astun Technology for allowing Ian Turton the time to prepare this release.

Bug Fixes

This is a maintenance release and includes the following bug fixes:

• GEOT-6982 Update Mongo DB driver to 4.0.6 to mitigate CVE-2021-20328
• GEOT-6959 SimpleHttpClient does support proxy
• GEOT-6958 ImageMosaic stores made of multiple coverages (homogeneous + heterogeneous) may fail on heterogeneous read
• GEOT-6944 Deadlock at org.geotools.xsd.XSD.getSchema
• GEOT-6937 AppSchema JdbcMultipleValue will fill wrong values if targetColumn is a PK
• GEOT-6881 GreaterThanEqualTo and LessThanEqualTo incorrectly marked as unsupported in WFS query
• GEOT-6410 Conversion from boolean true/false in geoserver to SQL Server bit 0/1, is broken

About GeoTools 25 Series 

For more information see the release notes (25.3 | 25.2 | 25.1 | 25.0 | 25-RC ).

• Repackaged downloads with html readme and license files and ready-to-use bin download
• New gt-http module, allowing gt-wms and gt-wps-client to use your choice of http library
• Massive code-cleanup with PMD integrated into our build chain
• Quality of life improvements with increased use of variable arguments, abd revised Map<String?> datastore connection parameters.

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.

GeoTools 13.0 Released

GeoTools 13.0 Released

The GeoTools community is pleased to announce the availability of GeoTools 13.0, the first stable release of the GeoTools 13 series.

Download GeoTools 13:

• geotools-13.0-bin.zip
• geotools-13.0-doc.zip
• geotools-13.0-userguide.zip
• geotools-13.0-project.zip

This release is also available from our maven repository, and is made in conjunction with GeoWebCache 1.7.0 and GeoServer 2.7.0.

New Features and Improvements

The following new features and improvements are available in this release:

Data Stores

• GeoPackage support is now compatible with QGIS and OGR.
• A new gt-solr data store is available for working with with Apache Solr. Thanks to Andrea Aime and Justin Deoliveira for this work.
• CSVDataStore has been improved with write access and the ability to work with different kinds of CSV files (including lat/lon and WKT). Thanks to Travis Brundage for this work.
• AbstractDataStore is now deprecated. Please make plans to migrate to ContentDataStore. There is an extensive ContentDataStore tutorial to help with your migration.
• PropertyDataStore has now been ported to use ContentDataStore, and a wide range of issues (readers, events, transactions) have been resolved for all DataStore implementations. Thanks to Torben Barsballe for this extensive QA work.

CSS Module

• The gt-css module is a brand-new implementation of CSS-style support, now written in Java. Thanks to Andrea Aime for bringing this exciting approach to styling within easy reach of Java developers. Here is a quick code example:

Stylesheet ss = CssParser.parse(css);
CssTranslator translator = new CssTranslator();
Style style - translator.translate(ss);

Rendering Engine

• Color-blending has been introduced as both a FeatureTypeStyle and Symbolizer vendorExtension, allowing for a range of special effects. Thanks to Cleveland Metro Parks for this improvement.
• A FeatureTypeStyle vendorExtension named "firstMatch". This vendorExtension will grab the first rule you specify. This can in many situations help you avoid more complicated logic for style rules.
  

  <sld:VendorOption name="ruleEvaluation">first</sld:VendorOption>

• Anchor points are now supported. This is done in SLD with the AnchorPoint tag:
  

  <LabelPlacement>
    <PointPlacement>
      <AnchorPoint>
        <AnchorPointX>
          <PropertyName>X</PropertyName>
        </AnchorPointX>
        <AnchorPointY>
          <PropertyName>Y</PropertyName>
        </AnchorPointY>
      </AnchorPoint>
    </PointPlacement>
  </LabelPlacement>

WFS Client

The gt-wfs client has improved:

• Better compatibility with MapServer.
• Extensive work has been done to support WFS 2.0 transactions. Thanks to Niels Charlier for this work.
• The gt-wfs client now supports WFS 2.0 stored queries. Thanks to Sampo Savolainen for this work.

And more
Documentation continues to improve, now with a complete function list. For a full list of improvements and changes in GeoTools 13, please see the full release notes.

Thanks to Jody Garnett and Travis Brundage (from Boundless) for making this release happen.