GeoServer Enterprise 2022.0 Release Notes

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

Overview

GeoServer Enterprise 2022.0 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 2022.0 is a recommended upgrade for all our customers and is compatible with GeoCat Bridge for both ArcGIS Desktop and QGIS Desktop.

General

GeoServer Enterprise 2022.0 release notes:

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

  • GeoServer Enterprise 2022.0 is proudly open source with the latest GeoServer 2.21.0, GeoWebCache 1.21.0, and GeoTools 27.0 technologies.

Detailed change log:

Security considerations:

  • Log4j 1.2 upgrade to Log4j 2

  • 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:

  • Global settings request logging is broken and will prevent the use of the user interface

  • Log4J configuration files are case sensitive when supplying geoserver log file location

  • Known issues for 2.21.0

GeoServer Enterprise Standard

New Feature:

  • Feature type customization now available, allowing attributes to be renamed, or even generated on the fly using ECQL expressions

  • Language chooser

  • Mark Factory Precedence

  • Logging REST API

  • Upgrade from Log4J 1.2 to Log4J logging

GeoServer Enterprise Premium

New feature:

  • GeoPackage WMS and WFS Output

Improvements:

  • GDAL 3.x support (tested with GDAL 3.2 and 3.4)

Technology preview:

  • Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF: under customer evaluation for roadmap planning

  • ogcapi-features: not presently available, non-functional at time of release