GeoServer 0.97 was just released on sourceforge, available at:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/geoserver/geoserver-0.97.tar.gz?download
This release adds the only operation that GeoServer was lacking -
GetFeaturesWithLock, so we are now fully specification compliant on all
operations, including transactions and locking. This release has passed
an extensive test suite of conformance tests as part of the OGC's CITE
initiative. If you are interested in sql files and the proper
featureTypes folders for the test data of the test suite, let me know.
You _can_ set up geoserver on your own with the test data provided, but it
is a lot of work, getting the tables and schema.xml files exactly right.
The test suite is not publically available right now, but it should be
some time soon.
Now that GeoServer is spec compliant, it's time to focus on robustness and
usability. We are aiming to get the 1.0 release out by the end of
september at the latest. A few more datasources should be available by
then - the oracle datasource just needs some testing to make sure it works
with geoserver, and hopefully others will be available soon. Please send
problems to this list, and feedback to geoserver@anonymised.com, as we love
to hear from our users.
thanks,
Chris