The GeoServer team is pleased to announce the release of GeoServer 2.4.2:
This is a stable release containing bug fixes and incremental improvements, including:
- Total matched feature count available in JSON output (contributed by Paul Biskup)
- Ability to control how scale hints are computed in WMS 1.1 (contributed by Roy Braam and Mauricio Pazos)
- Support for randomized symbol fills in both SLD and CSS (thanks to New South Wales Geological survey for sponsoring it)
- Better support for data with 3D coordinates using GML3/GeoJSON, and associated improvements in the SQL Server backend (thanks to IGEA, Croatia, for sponsoring this work)
- WCS 1.0 can be disabled
- Several translation updates and improvements, thanks to the translation team. In no particular order: Polish, Korean, German, Lithuanian, Spanish, Romanian, French
- Several small fixes in the docs (thanks to all the good people that contributed them!)
This release is made in conjunction with GeoTools 10.2.
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About the GeoServer 2.4 series
The following change control requests were completed during the development of GeoServer 2.4:
- Replace old KML module with new one (GSIP 98)
- Allow plugins to modify WMS MapContent before map rendering (GSIP 92)
- Machinery to pass thread locals down in thread pools (GSIP 96, fixes WPS asych requests security issues) – also available in 2.3.4
- Promote CSS Styling module from Community to Extension (GSIP 97) – also available in 2.3.2
- Graduate the INSPIRE module to extension status (GSIP 94) – also available in 2.3.2
- Promote XSLT community module to extension (GSIP 93) – also available in 2.3.1
- The shapefile datastore was completely rewritten (mostly as a code cleanup)
Articles and blogs during GeoServer 2.4 development:
- GeoServer 2.4.0 Release Highlights
- GeoServer FOSS4G 2013 (State of GeoServer, Introduction, Steroids, GeoFence, RasterData, Spatio-Temporal, Cartographic Rendering )
- Translation Interview
- GeoServer in a clustered configuration (Part 1, Part 2)
- New GeoServer community on Google+
- How to publish GDAL/MrSID image formats on a production GeoServer
- GeoServer crunch time (Part I, Part II and Part III)
- FOSS4G-NA slides (GeoServer In Production, GeoServer CSS Module, Scripting GeoServer with GeoScript, The State of GeoServer 2013)
- INSPIRE Conference 2013 slides (Analysing GeoServer compatibility with INSPIRE requirements)
- FOSSGIS 2013 slides (Introduction to GeoServer)