The GeoServer Project is pleased to announce the release of the third
beta of 1.6.0, available for download from:
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOS/GeoServer+1.6.0-beta3
The main focus of this release has been a number of performance
improvements, done by Andrea Aime. These center around the WMS, and can
be seen most clearly on layers that do not have any labels. Soon we
should improve the labeling as well, so keep an eye, since GeoServer is
getting legitimately fast.
Other improvements include fixes in reprojection in the WFS, with some
of the WFS 1.1 work being backported to WFS 1.0. This allows us to do
things like digitize on top of Yahoo! Maps and save the points back to
GeoServer, where it automatically puts it in the right projection for
the dataset.
The final improvement for beta 3 is our GeoJSON implementation is now
part of the standard distribution instead of a separate download. I for
one am excited about this, as it’s about the only coding I’ve done in
the past year.
Special thanks goes out to all those who helped us out with this release
by testing 1.6-beta2 and filing bug reports.
-The GeoServer Team