This is the second major milestone release of 2.x. Development has focused mainly around the new Wicket based user interface, and around the backend persistence and configuration subsystems.
Read more about the new features and see screenshots on the GeoServer blog:
Most importantly, download it and give it a try! And please report back with any feedback you may have.
Good stuff:
Windows installer generated start menu entries ....
- icons missing from start / stop shortcuts (thus from opened cmd prompt)
- documentation short cut points to http://geoserver.org/ - do you
want to point it to your new documentation export (or include the
documentation export?)
- geoserver admin short cut is to http://locahost:8080/ - not sure all
windows users have added localhost to their hosts file (usually only
developers?) may want to replace with http://127.0.0.1:8080/geoserver/web/
UI looks great (tried on ie, firefox and chrome beta). I asume you do
not care about little visual glitches? ...
- demo requests "body" text area always has virtical scalebars and
they are "cut off" due to some width constraint (while chrome lets me
drag the widget bigger; and firefox lets me drag it bigger once...
- several pages have "duplicate" titles (demo requets; style etc...)
Windows installer generated start menu entries ....
- icons missing from start / stop shortcuts (thus from opened cmd prompt)
Yeah, looks like there's a bunch of errata relating to the Windows installer (no new splash screen as well). Seems the improvements that were made were only on the 1.7.x branch. Could you file a JIRA with the Winstaller issues you found? You can assign it to me if you'd like.
- documentation short cut points to http://geoserver.org/ - do you
want to point it to your new documentation export (or include the
documentation export?)
Not yet. Still on the agenda is to deprecate the current docs and a few other miscellaneous tasks. I was originally thinking of "launching" the new docs with the next stable release (1.7.4), but that may have to wait until 1.7.5. Details still need to be hammered out.
Thankfully, a link from localhost to 127.0.0.1 is included in the Windows hosts file by default (at least as of XP, haven't checked others, but I can't imagine...)
Most importantly, download it and give it a try! And please report back with any feedback you may have.
Good stuff:
Windows installer generated start menu entries ....
- icons missing from start / stop shortcuts (thus from opened cmd prompt)
- documentation short cut points to http://geoserver.org/ - do you
want to point it to your new documentation export (or include the
documentation export?)
- geoserver admin short cut is to http://locahost:8080/ - not sure all
windows users have added localhost to their hosts file (usually only
developers?) may want to replace with http://127.0.0.1:8080/geoserver/web/
UI looks great (tried on ie, firefox and chrome beta). I asume you do
not care about little visual glitches? ...
- demo requests "body" text area always has virtical scalebars and
they are "cut off" due to some width constraint (while chrome lets me
drag the widget bigger; and firefox lets me drag it bigger once...
- several pages have "duplicate" titles (demo requets; style etc...)
Thankfully, a link from localhost to 127.0.0.1 is included in the Windows
hosts file by default (at least as of XP, haven't checked others, but I
can't imagine...)
It was not included in Vista by default; I had to go an add it.
Thankfully, a link from localhost to 127.0.0.1 is included in the Windows
hosts file by default (at least as of XP, haven't checked others, but I
can't imagine...)
It was not included in Vista by default; I had to go an add it.
Jody
There are about 6000 articles in the Microsoft Knowledgebase that involve localhost. Most of them presuppose it, so this cannot be too widespread.
I've checked three computers (Vista Dell OEM, Vista Biz normal, Windows 2003 Server) and all of them have it. But even if it's not there, your DNS server should resolve that correctly for you. OpenDNS does not, I should add.
-Arne
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