The GeoServer team is proud to announce the first release candidate for the 1.5 version of GeoServer:
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOS/GeoServer+1.5.0-RC1
This release contains many fixes and improvements. It is also now backwards compatible to 1.3 and 1.4 data directories. Along with speed improvements, it also had a little reorganization of the user interface and has a couple tutorials to go along with it:
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOSDOC/User+Tutorial+Coverage
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOSDOC/Load+NASA+Blue+Marble+Data
Since this is a release candidate, we would appreciate it if you could all download it and give it a quick try. Mostly for testing the backwards compatibility to old data directories, and for deployment in your existing systems to make sure there is no loss in functionality.
Along with this release are some coverage data assistance tools from Geo-Solutions. They will make your life of processing coverage data easier. It is in an early release stage so please report any bugs or problems back to us. We will be adding more documentation to it in the mean time.
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/geoserver/CoverageTools-0.2.exe?use_mirror=easynews
--
The GeoServer Team