GeoCat Map 2025.0 Release Notes

GeoCat is pleased to present the rebranded GeoCat Map enterprise distribution of GeoServer technology.

Overview

GeoCat Map 2025.0 provides support for publishing geospatial data using open standards.

This distribution is made available to GeoCat customers:

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

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

  • GeoCat Live provides a hosted GeoServer environment

GeoCat Map 2025.0 is a recommended upgrade for all our customers and is compatible with GeoCat Bridge for both ArcGIS Desktop and QGIS Desktop.

General

GeoServer Enterprise 2025.0 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 2025.0 is proudly open source with the latest GeoServer 2.27.1, GeoWebCache 1.27.1, and GeoTools 33.1 technologies.

Detailed change log:

Security considerations:

  • GeoCat respects the GeoServer coordinated vulnerability disclosure policy, contact us directly to discuss known security vulnerabilities mitigation and resolution availability.

  • The following vulnerabilities are presently disclosed:

    • Public disclosure scheduled for early June

    If you are using GeoServer Enterprise 2025.0 the disclosed vulnerabilities have already been patched.

Known issues:

GeoServer Enterprise Standard

Upgrade notes:

  • Content Security Policy headers instruct your browser to mitigate cross-site scripting and clickjacking attacks.

    Use application property org.geoserver.web.csp.strict=false to reduces these checks to warnings (if you find a user interface unresponsive).

  • Catalog Directory Loader has been rewritten an optimized for speed and distributed file systems.

    If you have any issues during startup you can disable using GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR_LOADER_ENABLED=false.

  • File System Sandbox Isolation allows system administrator to limit the directories available to GeoServer Administrators and Workspace Administrators.

    Use GEOSERVER_FILESYSTEM_SANDBOX application property to limit the entire application, or use Security > Data screen to limit individual workspaces.

New Feature:

  • OGC API Feature Service is a REST / JSON service defined by the Open Geospatial Consortium.

    GeoServer implements this as a new vector protocol alongside existing WFS 1.0, WFS 1.1 and WFS 2.0. OGC API Features can be configured by enabling / disabling optional functionality such as CQL2 and ECQL queries. Conformances are categories into STANDARD, DRAFT STANDARD, and COMMUNITY STANDARD allowing additional functionality to be evaluated and used.

  • Additional WPS process SpatioTemporalZonalStatistics is available

  • Define coverage views using raster calculator expressions, rather than just selecting bands.

Improvements:

  • Performance improvements for WPS, Tiling, CooridnateReferenceSystems and KML.

GeoServer Enterprise Premium

New feature:

  • MapML now provides a TCRS Settings page to manage Tiled Coordinate Reference systems

Improvements:

  • MapML Extension updates mapml.js to the latest 0.16.0 MapML Viewer.

Technology preview:

  • Additional OGCAPI Protocols available for preview on request.