GeoServer Enterprise 2023.0 Release Notes

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

Overview

GeoServer Enterprise 2023.0 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 2023.0 is a recommended upgrade for all our customers and is compatible with GeoCat Bridge for both ArcGIS Desktop and QGIS Desktop.

General

GeoServer Enterprise 2023.0 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 2023.0 is proudly open source with the latest GeoServer 2.23.0, GeoWebCache 1.23.0, and GeoTools 29.0 technologies.

Detailed change log:

• GeoServer posts ( 2.23.0 )

• GeoServer release notes ( 2.23.0 | 2.23-RC1 )

• Additional GeoServer Enterprise issues addressed:

  • [GEOS-10837] geopackage output fails when java.io.tmpdir on network share

Security considerations:

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

• Java 11 is now required for continued access to latest dependency security updates

• Component updates (unverified vulnerabilities):

  • [GEOS-10907] spring-framework 5.3.26 ( CVE-2023-20861, CVE-2023-20861 )

  • [GEOT-7317] snakeyaml 2.0 (CVE-2022-1471)

Known issues:

• Known issues for 2023.1

GeoServer Enterprise Standard

New Feature:

• Upgraded for Java 11 (Java 8 no longer supported)

• Feature type description can now be edited when customizing feature type attribute

Improvements:

• Open Geospatial Consortium CITE certification: WFS 1.1.0 (Basic, Transactional), WMS 1.1.1, WMS 1.3.0

Administration console:

• User interface styling has been modernized, dropping support for early internet explore browsers

• Improved error messages when missing files encountered

• WFS GetFeature output formats types can now be configured

GeoServer Enterprise Premium

Fixes:

• GeoPackage output format geopackage.wfs.tempdir overide available to force use of local disk required for SQLite database creation.

Technology preview:

• Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF: under customer evaluation for roadmap planning

• ogcapi-features: under customer evaluation for roadmap planning