GeoServer Enterprise 2021.1 Release Notes

GeoCat is pleased to present our latest distribution of GeoServer Enterprise.

Overview

GeoServer Enterprise 2021.1 provides support for publishing geospatial data using open standards.

This distribution is made available to GeoCat customers:

  • GeoServer Enterprise Standard distribution provides a web archive (or docker image) of GeoServer bundled with popular extensions backed by GeoCat long-term support

  • GeoServer Enterprise Premium offers a custom distribution with your selection of extensions backed by GeoCat extended support.

  • GeoCat Live provides a hosted GeoServer environment

GeoServer Enterprise 2021.1 is a recommended upgrade for all our customers and is compatible with GeoCat Bridge for both ArcGIS Desktop and QGIS Desktop.

General

GeoServer Enterprise 2021.1 release notes:

  • Offers our GeoServer Enterprise Premium customers “predefined war” service with a ready to use war including your selection of supported GeoServer extensions.

  • Visual refresh with a clean appearance.

  • Built-in web-resource extension and control-flow extensions

  • GeoServer Enterprise 2021.1 is proudly open source with the latest GeoServer 2.19, GeoWebCache 1.19, and GeoTools 25 technologies.

Detailed change log:

Security considerations:

  • GeoCat recommends upgrading to take advantage of the latest security fixes.

  • GeoCat respects the GeoServer responsible disclosure policy, contact us directly to discuss for a list of known security vulnerabilities.

Known issues:

GeoServer Enterprise Standard

New features:

  • Revise generated filenames used when downloading features using your web browser. Previously gml, csv, shp, and json content would often be saved features.xml, features.csv, featuers.shp and features.json respectively.

    Now the filename defaults to the layer name, and can be overriden using format_option=filename:<file>. As an example json content can be saved export.json using format_option=filename:export .

    Reference: WFS output formats

Improvements:

  • PostgrSQL 42.2.19 drivers

  • GetMap service exceptions now include layer name

  • Log style name when failing to load a style from the data directory

  • Allow line wrapping in long layer names etc in GetLegendGraphics

  • Apple M1 hardware support

  • Allow base proxy configuration to accept parametrization.

    This requires -DALLOW_ENV_PARAMETRIZATION=true startup to enable.

Notes:

  • A large amount of quality assurance work was performed improving GeoServer reliability.

GeoServer Enterprise Premium

New features:

  • MapML Extension

  • Control legend graphic generation with legendOnly and mapOnly vendor options

Improvements:

  • Oracle 19.10.0.0 database driver

Removed:

  • ArcSDE support is no longer available

Early access:

  • cloud optimized geotiff (cog)

  • geopackage output format for wfs and wps

  • ogc-api features

GeoCat Live Standard

New features:

  • ysld styling format

GeoCat Live Premium

Early access:

  • cloud optimized geotiff (cog)

  • geopackage output format for wfs and wps

  • ogc-api features