GeoServer Enterprise 2023.3 Release Notes

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

Overview

GeoServer Enterprise 2023.3 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 2023.3 is a recommended upgrade for all our customers and is compatible with GeoCat Bridge for both ArcGIS Desktop and QGIS Desktop.

General

GeoServer Enterprise 2023.3 release notes:

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

  • GeoServer Enterprise 2023.3 is proudly open source with the latest GeoServer 2.24.2, GeoWebCache 1.24.2, and GeoTools 30.2 technologies.

Detailed change log:

Security considerations:

Known issues:

GeoServer Enterprise Standard

New feature:

  • IAU authority support

Improvements:

  • Printing extension updates for PDF generation

  • URL Checks are now on by default.

    If you have not previously enabled this setting be advised that URL Checks are now enabled. If you encounter any integration difficulties with external systems you may disable this setting, or we would be happy to assist you in adding additional external systems to the allow-list.

GeoServer Enterprise Premium

Improvements:

  • OGCAPI-Features: Pass OGC CITE compliance tests core and crs-by-reference.

    • API version number

    • Configure reference links

Technology preview:

  • OAUth 2 / OpenID Connect (OIDC)

  • Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF: under customer evaluation for roadmap planning

  • ogcapi-features: under customer evaluation for roadmap planning