[Geoserver-devel] GeoServer 2.4.1 Released

http://blog.geoserver.org/2013/10/21/geoserver-2-4-1-released/

The GeoServer team is pleased to announce the release of GeoServer 2.4.1:

http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/GeoServer+2.4.1

This is a stable release containing bug fixes and incremental improvements, including:

- CSW admin page
- Fixed deployment without web jars
- Polygon fill margin vendor option in CSS
- Automatically link CSW (ISO) records to the respective WMS/WFS/WCS sources

This release is made in conjunction with GeoTools 10.1.

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About the GeoServer 2.4 series

The following change control requests were completed during the development of GeoServer 2.4:

- Replace old KML module with new one (GSIP 98)
- Allow plugins to modify WMS MapContent before map rendering (GSIP 92)
- Machinery to pass thread locals down in thread pools (GSIP 96, fixes WPS asych requests security issues) – also available in 2.3.4
- Promote CSS Styling module from Community to Extension (GSIP 97) – also available in 2.3.2
- Graduate the INSPIRE module to extension status (GSIP 94) – also available in 2.3.2
- Promote XSLT community module to extension (GSIP 93) – also available in 2.3.1
- The shapefile datastore was completely rewritten (mostly as a code cleanup)

Articles and blogs during GeoServer 2.4 development:

- GeoServer 2.4.0 Release Highlights
     GeoServer FOSS4G 2013 (State of GeoServer, Introduction, Steroids, GeoFence, RasterData, Spatio-Temporal, Cartographic Rendering )
- Translation Interview
- GeoServer in a clustered configuration (Part 1, Part 2)
- New GeoServer community on Google+
- How to publish GDAL/MrSID image formats on a production GeoServer
- GeoServer crunch time (Part I, Part II and Part III)
- FOSS4G-NA slides (GeoServer In Production, GeoServer CSS Module, Scripting GeoServer with GeoScript, The State of GeoServer 2013)
- INSPIRE Conference 2013 slides (Analysing GeoServer compatibility with INSPIRE requirements)
- FOSSGIS 2013 slides (Introduction to GeoServer)

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Ben Caradoc-Davies <Ben.Caradoc-Davies@anonymised.com>
Software Engineer
CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering
Australian Resources Research Centre