GeoServer Enterprise 2021.3 Release Notes

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

Overview

GeoServer Enterprise 2021.3 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 2021.3 is a recommended upgrade for all our customers and is compatible with GeoCat Bridge for both ArcGIS Desktop and QGIS Desktop.

General

GeoServer Enterprise 2021.3 release notes:

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

  • GeoCat theme with clean appearance.

  • Built-in web-resource, ysld and control-flow extensions

  • GeoServer Enterprise 2021.3 is proudly open source with the latest GeoServer 2.20, GeoWebCache 1.20, and GeoTools 26 technologies.

Detailed change log:

  • GeoServer issue tracker changelog from 2.19.3 to 2.20.1

    Included fixes:

    • Fix: GEOS-10282 GeoServer translations files incorrectly decoded assuming UTF-8 causing translation files like GeoServerApplication_de.properties leading characters represented as question marks

  • GeoServer posts for 2.20-RC, 2.20.0, 2.20.1 (pending).

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:

  • Internationalization of title and abstraction for web services

  • Internationalization of map content with SLD language function

  • OGC Two dimensional “well-known” tile matrix sets

  • YLSD extension

  • Updated data directory using YLSD styles from maps.geocat.net

Improvements:

  • Modules Status Information for Extensions

GeoServer Enterprise Premium

Early access:

  • cloud optimized geotiff (cog)

  • geopackage output format for wfs and wps

  • ogc-api features

GeoCat Live Standard

No significant change.

GeoCat Live Premium

Early access:

  • cloud optimized geotiff (cog)

  • geopackage output format for wfs and wps

  • ogc-api features