GeoTools 13-RC1 Released
<http://geotoolsnews.blogspot.com/2015/02/geotools-13-rc1-released.html>
The GeoTools community is pleased to announce the availability of
GeoTools 13-RC1
<https://sourceforge.net/projects/geotools/files/GeoTools%2013%20Releases/13-RC1/>,
the first release candidate of the GeoTools 13 series:
* geotools-13-RC1-bin.zip
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/geotools/files/GeoTools%2013%20Releases/13-RC1/geotools-13-RC1-bin.zip/download>
* geotools-13-RC1-doc.zip
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/geotools/files/GeoTools%2013%20Releases/13-RC1/geotools-13-RC1-doc.zip/download>
* geotools-13-RC1-userguide.zip
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/geotools/files/GeoTools%2013%20Releases/13-RC1/geotools-13-RC1-userguide.zip/download>
* geotools-13-RC1-project.zip
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/geotools/files/GeoTools%2013%20Releases/13-RC1/geotools-13-RC1-project.zip/download>
This release is also available from our maven repository
<http://download.osgeo.org/webdav/geotools/>, and is made in
conjunction with GeoWebCache 1.7-RC1 and GeoServer 2.7-RC1.
We would like your feedback on these new features and improvements:
* GeoPackage support is now compatible with QGIS and OGR.
* The rendering engine has been overhauled with two new features:
o Color-blending has been introduced as both a
FeatureTypeStyle
<http://docs.geotools.org/latest/userguide/library/render/style.html#featuretypestyle>
and Symbolizer
<http://docs.geotools.org/latest/userguide/library/render/style.html#symbolizer>
vendorExtension allowing for a range of special effects
<http://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/styling/sld-extensions/composite-blend.html>.
Thanks to Cleveland Metro Parks for this improvement.
o A FeatureTypeStyle
<http://docs.geotools.org/latest/userguide/library/render/style.html#featuretypestyle>
vendorExtension
"firstMatch" will stop at the first rule.
o Anchor points are now supported.
* The gt-css module is a brand-new implementation of css style
support written in Java. Thanks to Andrea for brining this
exciting approach to styling within easy reach of Java developers.
* A new gt-solr data store is available for working with with
Apache Solr <http://lucene.apache.org/solr/>
* AbstractDataStore is now deprecated - please make plans to
migrate to ContentDataStore.
o There is an extensive ContentDataStore Tutorial
<http://docs.geotools.org/latest/userguide/tutorial/datastore/index.html> to
help with your migration. Thanks to Travis for updating
the initial tutorial used at FOSS4G.
o PropertyDataStore has now been ported to use
ContentDataStore, and a wide range of issues have been
resolved during extensive QA testing (readers, events,
transactions). We would like to thank Torben for this
extensive work.
* CSVDataStore has been improved with write access and the
ability to work with different kinds of CSV files (including
lat/lon and WKT). Thanks to Travis for this work.
* The gt-wfs client has improved:
o Better compatibility with MapServer.
o Extensive work has been done to support WFS 2.0
transacations. Thanks to Niels for this work.
o Now supports WFS 2.0 stored queries. Thanks Sampo for this
work.
* Documentation continues to improve, now with a complete
function list
<http://docs.geotools.org/latest/userguide/library/main/function_list.html>.
* For a full list of improvements since 13-beta, please see
therelease notes
<https://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10270&version=20938>
Thanks to Ben Caradoc-Davies <mailto:b...@transient.nz> (Transient
Software, New Zealand <http://transient.nz/>) for this release.
About GeoTools 13
* ContentDataStore Tutorial
<http://docs.geotools.org/latest/userguide/tutorial/datastore/index.html> to
help with migration from AbstractDataStore
--
Ben Caradoc-Davies<b...@transient.nz>
Software Engineer
Transient Software<http://transient.nz>
New Zealand
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