GeoServer Enterprise 2024.4 Release Notes

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

Overview

GeoServer Enterprise 2024.4 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 2024.4 is a recommended upgrade for all our customers and is compatible with GeoCat Bridge for both ArcGIS Desktop and QGIS Desktop.

General

GeoServer Enterprise 2024.4 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 2024.4 is proudly open source with the latest GeoServer 2.26.2, GeoWebCache 1.26.2, and GeoTools 32.2 technologies.

Detailed change log:

  • GeoServer posts ( 2.26.2 )

  • GeoServer release notes ( 2.26.2 )

Security considerations:

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

Known issues:

GeoServer Enterprise Standard

  • Java 17 Support.

  • File system sandbox isolation to limit GeoServer Administrator or Workspace Administrator access to their own data storage folder.

  • REST API endpoint for reloading security configuration when updated by external script

  • Improved GeoTIFF memory management

  • Application property PROXY_BASE_URL_HEADERS=true to respect headers activation

  • Fix: Welcome page per-layer is not respecting global service enablement

  • Fix: WMTS layer service enablement