[Geoserver-users] GeoServer 2.18-RC Release Candidate released

GeoServer GeoServer User
1

Hey everyone,

GeoServer 2.18-RC Release Candidate is now available for testing, read all about it in our blog: http://blog.geoserver.org/2020/09/08/geoserver-2-18-rc-released/

Thanks to Jukka Rahkonen and Brad Hards for initial testing. To add your name to the list for the 2.18 release announcement: download the release candidate, try it out, and reply to this email thread!

···

–
GeoServer Project Steering Committee

2

Thanks for all your effort guys,

we’re testing the RC and we confirm that it correctly ships what we needed vectortiles + pregen in addition to the sta

Actually I’m still not 100% satisfied about that and I’d love to continue working in that direction adding the on the fly simplification support also (but it’s a more complex challenge that requires time).

I have some concern on the distance calculation and I hope to be able to talk with the maintainer of that extension to discuss and clarify various aspects.

Anyhow it is doing what we need and we can’t wait for the release to deliver such functionality into our cloud (with the 2.17.3).

oh, it was very funny to see our project name ‘hidden’ into the release description… (hand-in-hand)

My best regards
C.

···

Mr. Carlo Cancellieri
skype: ccancellieri
Twitter: @cancellieric
LinkedIn: http://it.linkedin.com/in/ccancellieri/

3

Thanks carlo cancellieri.

Dear,

I’ve got stuck to upgrading platform independent binary geoserver 2.14.4 to geoserver 2.18RC. I’ve got solution for windows installer but not for platform independent binary.
I’m digging out since two days and still I don’t have any solution pls help if it is
possible. I’ve to report to the manager.

I’ll be very grateful to you.

Thanks in advance.
Shashi

On Fri, 11 Sep 2020, 8:41 pm carlo cancellieri, <geo.ccancellieri@anonymised.com> wrote:

Thanks for all your effort guys,

we’re testing the RC and we confirm that it correctly ships what we needed vectortiles + pregen in addition to the sta

Actually I’m still not 100% satisfied about that and I’d love to continue working in that direction adding the on the fly simplification support also (but it’s a more complex challenge that requires time).

I have some concern on the distance calculation and I hope to be able to talk with the maintainer of that extension to discuss and clarify various aspects.

Anyhow it is doing what we need and we can’t wait for the release to deliver such functionality into our cloud (with the 2.17.3).

oh, it was very funny to see our project name ‘hidden’ into the release description… (hand-in-hand)

My best regards
C.

Il giorno gio 10 set 2020 alle ore 23:25 Jody Garnett <jody.garnett@anonymised.com> ha scritto:

Hey everyone,

GeoServer 2.18-RC Release Candidate is now available for testing, read all about it in our blog: http://blog.geoserver.org/2020/09/08/geoserver-2-18-rc-released/

Thanks to Jukka Rahkonen and Brad Hards for initial testing. To add your name to the list for the 2.18 release announcement: download the release candidate, try it out, and reply to this email thread!

–
GeoServer Project Steering Committee

Geoserver-users mailing list

Please make sure you read the following two resources before posting to this list:

If you want to request a feature or an improvement, also see this: https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/wiki/Successfully-requesting-and-integrating-new-features-and-improvements-in-GeoServer

Geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users

–

Mr. Carlo Cancellieri
skype: ccancellieri
Twitter: @cancellieric
LinkedIn: http://it.linkedin.com/in/ccancellieri/

Geoserver-users mailing list

Please make sure you read the following two resources before posting to this list:

If you want to request a feature or an improvement, also see this: https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/wiki/Successfully-requesting-and-integrating-new-features-and-improvements-in-GeoServer

Geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users

4

Ciao Shashi,
there are several changes, actually I’m not informed about your task status so I can only point you here:

https://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/installation/upgrade.html#jts-type-bindings-geoserver-2-14-and-newer
and
https://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/datadirectory/migrating.html#datadir-migrating

The jetty version can be transparently used over windows, I would also suggest to use an external data directory and look carefully here:

https://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/installation/index.html

Following step by step the installation guide especially for Windows based installation.

Regards,
C.

···

Mr. Carlo Cancellieri
skype: ccancellieri
Twitter: @cancellieric
LinkedIn: http://it.linkedin.com/in/ccancellieri/

5

Dear Carlo,
Actually this is my first time in this user list group so I’m not much aware about its process, how can I help you with my work status.
Links sent by you I’ve tried already but there is no any solution of my problem.

Thanks

On Fri, 11 Sep 2020, 10:11 pm carlo cancellieri, <geo.ccancellieri@anonymised.com> wrote:

Ciao Shashi,
there are several changes, actually I’m not informed about your task status so I can only point you here:

https://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/installation/upgrade.html#jts-type-bindings-geoserver-2-14-and-newer
and
https://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/datadirectory/migrating.html#datadir-migrating

The jetty version can be transparently used over windows, I would also suggest to use an external data directory and look carefully here:

https://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/installation/index.html

Following step by step the installation guide especially for Windows based installation.

Regards,
C.

Il giorno ven 11 set 2020 alle ore 17:32 Shashi Verma <shashiv707@anonymised.com> ha scritto:

Thanks carlo cancellieri.

Dear,

I’ve got stuck to upgrading platform independent binary geoserver 2.14.4 to geoserver 2.18RC. I’ve got solution for windows installer but not for platform independent binary.
I’m digging out since two days and still I don’t have any solution pls help if it is
possible. I’ve to report to the manager.

I’ll be very grateful to you.

Thanks in advance.
Shashi

On Fri, 11 Sep 2020, 8:41 pm carlo cancellieri, <geo.ccancellieri@anonymised.com> wrote:

Thanks for all your effort guys,

we’re testing the RC and we confirm that it correctly ships what we needed vectortiles + pregen in addition to the sta

Actually I’m still not 100% satisfied about that and I’d love to continue working in that direction adding the on the fly simplification support also (but it’s a more complex challenge that requires time).

I have some concern on the distance calculation and I hope to be able to talk with the maintainer of that extension to discuss and clarify various aspects.

Anyhow it is doing what we need and we can’t wait for the release to deliver such functionality into our cloud (with the 2.17.3).

oh, it was very funny to see our project name ‘hidden’ into the release description… (hand-in-hand)

My best regards
C.

Il giorno gio 10 set 2020 alle ore 23:25 Jody Garnett <jody.garnett@anonymised.com> ha scritto:

Hey everyone,

GeoServer 2.18-RC Release Candidate is now available for testing, read all about it in our blog: http://blog.geoserver.org/2020/09/08/geoserver-2-18-rc-released/

Thanks to Jukka Rahkonen and Brad Hards for initial testing. To add your name to the list for the 2.18 release announcement: download the release candidate, try it out, and reply to this email thread!

–
GeoServer Project Steering Committee

Geoserver-users mailing list

Please make sure you read the following two resources before posting to this list:

If you want to request a feature or an improvement, also see this: https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/wiki/Successfully-requesting-and-integrating-new-features-and-improvements-in-GeoServer

Geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users

–

Mr. Carlo Cancellieri
skype: ccancellieri
Twitter: @cancellieric
LinkedIn: http://it.linkedin.com/in/ccancellieri/

Geoserver-users mailing list

Please make sure you read the following two resources before posting to this list:

If you want to request a feature or an improvement, also see this: https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/wiki/Successfully-requesting-and-integrating-new-features-and-improvements-in-GeoServer

Geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users

–

Mr. Carlo Cancellieri
skype: ccancellieri
Twitter: @cancellieric
LinkedIn: http://it.linkedin.com/in/ccancellieri/

6

Shashi,
welcome!

Can you please describe in detail your environment and the problem you are facing?

C.

···

Mr. Carlo Cancellieri
skype: ccancellieri
Twitter: @cancellieric
LinkedIn: http://it.linkedin.com/in/ccancellieri/

7

Nice, thanks for testing. If you have any picture to go with that section I would love to include it in the final announcement (visual makes a better impact).
We also try and credit folks improving the functionality, so if you have a sentence I can use mention your project please speak up :slight_smile:

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Jody Garnett

8

I am also confused as I do not know what platform independent binary" you are looking for?

We offer a “zip” download which includes “start.bat” and “start.sh” scripts to run java, this is the platform independent binary link on the release page:

···

–
Jody Garnett

9

Thanks for your response,
Yes, you are correct I’m also doing the same.
But let me try to explain again, suppose I’m working on a platform-independent binary (extracted .zip file as u said) of 2.14.4 version and we have a lot of published layers or services and different types of settings in GeoServer which I’ve done as per requirement. The problem is here now I want to update my geoserver2.14.4 in geoserver2.17.2 with the same settings(as in geoserver2.14.4) and all layers or services which I’ve published in GeoServer version 2.14.4,
like upgrading the older version to newer version. I’ve found many links and helps to upgrade newer versions for windows installer .exe but not for platform-independent binary (.zip).
I guess now it would be clear for you. Please help me with the same.
I’ll be very grateful to you.

Thanks
Shashi

On Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 12:43 AM Jody Garnett <jody.garnett@anonymised.com> wrote:

I am also confused as I do not know what platform independent binary" you are looking for?

We offer a “zip” download which includes “start.bat” and “start.sh” scripts to run java, this is the platform independent binary link on the release page:

–
Jody Garnett

On Fri, 11 Sep 2020 at 09:59, carlo cancellieri <geo.ccancellieri@anonymised.com.> wrote:

Shashi,
welcome!

Can you please describe in detail your environment and the problem you are facing?

C.

Il giorno ven 11 set 2020 alle ore 18:51 Shashi Verma <shashiv707@anonymised.com> ha scritto:

Dear Carlo,
Actually this is my first time in this user list group so I’m not much aware about its process, how can I help you with my work status.
Links sent by you I’ve tried already but there is no any solution of my problem.

Thanks

On Fri, 11 Sep 2020, 10:11 pm carlo cancellieri, <geo.ccancellieri@anonymised.com> wrote:

Ciao Shashi,
there are several changes, actually I’m not informed about your task status so I can only point you here:

https://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/installation/upgrade.html#jts-type-bindings-geoserver-2-14-and-newer
and
https://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/datadirectory/migrating.html#datadir-migrating

The jetty version can be transparently used over windows, I would also suggest to use an external data directory and look carefully here:

https://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/installation/index.html

Following step by step the installation guide especially for Windows based installation.

Regards,
C.

Il giorno ven 11 set 2020 alle ore 17:32 Shashi Verma <shashiv707@anonymised.com> ha scritto:

Thanks carlo cancellieri.

Dear,

I’ve got stuck to upgrading platform independent binary geoserver 2.14.4 to geoserver 2.18RC. I’ve got solution for windows installer but not for platform independent binary.
I’m digging out since two days and still I don’t have any solution pls help if it is
possible. I’ve to report to the manager.

I’ll be very grateful to you.

Thanks in advance.
Shashi

On Fri, 11 Sep 2020, 8:41 pm carlo cancellieri, <geo.ccancellieri@anonymised.com> wrote:

Thanks for all your effort guys,

we’re testing the RC and we confirm that it correctly ships what we needed vectortiles + pregen in addition to the sta

Actually I’m still not 100% satisfied about that and I’d love to continue working in that direction adding the on the fly simplification support also (but it’s a more complex challenge that requires time).

I have some concern on the distance calculation and I hope to be able to talk with the maintainer of that extension to discuss and clarify various aspects.

Anyhow it is doing what we need and we can’t wait for the release to deliver such functionality into our cloud (with the 2.17.3).

oh, it was very funny to see our project name ‘hidden’ into the release description… (hand-in-hand)

My best regards
C.

Il giorno gio 10 set 2020 alle ore 23:25 Jody Garnett <jody.garnett@anonymised.com> ha scritto:

Hey everyone,

GeoServer 2.18-RC Release Candidate is now available for testing, read all about it in our blog: http://blog.geoserver.org/2020/09/08/geoserver-2-18-rc-released/

Thanks to Jukka Rahkonen and Brad Hards for initial testing. To add your name to the list for the 2.18 release announcement: download the release candidate, try it out, and reply to this email thread!

–
GeoServer Project Steering Committee

Geoserver-users mailing list

Please make sure you read the following two resources before posting to this list:

If you want to request a feature or an improvement, also see this: https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/wiki/Successfully-requesting-and-integrating-new-features-and-improvements-in-GeoServer

Geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users

–

Mr. Carlo Cancellieri
skype: ccancellieri
Twitter: @cancellieric
LinkedIn: http://it.linkedin.com/in/ccancellieri/

Geoserver-users mailing list

Please make sure you read the following two resources before posting to this list:

If you want to request a feature or an improvement, also see this: https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/wiki/Successfully-requesting-and-integrating-new-features-and-improvements-in-GeoServer

Geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users

–

Mr. Carlo Cancellieri
skype: ccancellieri
Twitter: @cancellieric
LinkedIn: http://it.linkedin.com/in/ccancellieri/

–

Mr. Carlo Cancellieri
skype: ccancellieri
Twitter: @cancellieric
LinkedIn: http://it.linkedin.com/in/ccancellieri/

10

I am not sure there are any specific instructions, the generic approach is to reuse your previous data_dir folder…

  1. Take your data directory out to a separate folder, this is already done for the platform independent binary.

geoserver-2.17.0-bin % ls
NOTICE.md RUNNING.txt bin etc license modules start.ini webapps
README.txt VERSION.txt data_dir lib logs resources start.jar

  1. Make a backup of this data_directory somewhere safe (I put one in my Downloads folder below)

geoserver-2.17.2-bin % zip -r ~/Downloads/data_dir.zip data_dir

  1. Grab a new release

  2. Delete the existing data_dir (since we are going to migrate our old one)

geoserver-2.18-RC-bin % rm -r data_dir

  1. Unzip your previous data directory into position

geoserver-2.18-RC-bin % unzip ~/Downloads/data_dir.zip

  1. Start it up like normal and confirm it works:

geoserver-2.18-RC-bin % bin/startup.sh

  1. troubleshooting:
  • Remember to make sure the data_dir is readable by the same user that is going to run the bin/start.sh command (you may need to adjust permissions with chown).
  • The main reason for it not starting up is forgetting to install all the same extensions as your previous implementation. If you for example have a data_dir/wps.xml file and have not installed the wps extension the new geoserver will not know what to do.

–
Jody Garnett

On Fri, 11 Sep 2020 at 23:13, Shashi Verma <shashiv707@anonymised.com> wrote:

Thanks for your response,
Yes, you are correct I’m also doing the same.
But let me try to explain again, suppose I’m working on a platform-independent binary (extracted .zip file as u said) of 2.14.4 version and we have a lot of published layers or services and different types of settings in GeoServer which I’ve done as per requirement. The problem is here now I want to update my geoserver2.14.4 in geoserver2.17.2 with the same settings(as in geoserver2.14.4) and all layers or services which I’ve published in GeoServer version 2.14.4,
like upgrading the older version to newer version. I’ve found many links and helps to upgrade newer versions for windows installer .exe but not for platform-independent binary (.zip).
I guess now it would be clear for you. Please help me with the same.
I’ll be very grateful to you.

Thanks
Shashi

On Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 12:43 AM Jody Garnett <jody.garnett@anonymised.com> wrote:

I am also confused as I do not know what platform independent binary" you are looking for?

We offer a “zip” download which includes “start.bat” and “start.sh” scripts to run java, this is the platform independent binary link on the release page:

–
Jody Garnett

On Fri, 11 Sep 2020 at 09:59, carlo cancellieri <geo.ccancellieri@anonymised.com> wrote:

Shashi,
welcome!

Can you please describe in detail your environment and the problem you are facing?

C.

Il giorno ven 11 set 2020 alle ore 18:51 Shashi Verma <shashiv707@anonymised.com> ha scritto:

Dear Carlo,
Actually this is my first time in this user list group so I’m not much aware about its process, how can I help you with my work status.
Links sent by you I’ve tried already but there is no any solution of my problem.

Thanks

On Fri, 11 Sep 2020, 10:11 pm carlo cancellieri, <geo.ccancellieri@anonymised.com> wrote:

Ciao Shashi,
there are several changes, actually I’m not informed about your task status so I can only point you here:

https://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/installation/upgrade.html#jts-type-bindings-geoserver-2-14-and-newer
and
https://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/datadirectory/migrating.html#datadir-migrating

The jetty version can be transparently used over windows, I would also suggest to use an external data directory and look carefully here:

https://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/installation/index.html

Following step by step the installation guide especially for Windows based installation.

Regards,
C.

Il giorno ven 11 set 2020 alle ore 17:32 Shashi Verma <shashiv707@anonymised.com> ha scritto:

Thanks carlo cancellieri.

Dear,

I’ve got stuck to upgrading platform independent binary geoserver 2.14.4 to geoserver 2.18RC. I’ve got solution for windows installer but not for platform independent binary.
I’m digging out since two days and still I don’t have any solution pls help if it is
possible. I’ve to report to the manager.

I’ll be very grateful to you.

Thanks in advance.
Shashi

On Fri, 11 Sep 2020, 8:41 pm carlo cancellieri, <geo.ccancellieri@anonymised.com> wrote:

Thanks for all your effort guys,

we’re testing the RC and we confirm that it correctly ships what we needed vectortiles + pregen in addition to the sta

Actually I’m still not 100% satisfied about that and I’d love to continue working in that direction adding the on the fly simplification support also (but it’s a more complex challenge that requires time).

I have some concern on the distance calculation and I hope to be able to talk with the maintainer of that extension to discuss and clarify various aspects.

Anyhow it is doing what we need and we can’t wait for the release to deliver such functionality into our cloud (with the 2.17.3).

oh, it was very funny to see our project name ‘hidden’ into the release description… (hand-in-hand)

My best regards
C.

Il giorno gio 10 set 2020 alle ore 23:25 Jody Garnett <jody.garnett@anonymised.com> ha scritto:

Hey everyone,

GeoServer 2.18-RC Release Candidate is now available for testing, read all about it in our blog: http://blog.geoserver.org/2020/09/08/geoserver-2-18-rc-released/

Thanks to Jukka Rahkonen and Brad Hards for initial testing. To add your name to the list for the 2.18 release announcement: download the release candidate, try it out, and reply to this email thread!

–
GeoServer Project Steering Committee

Geoserver-users mailing list

Please make sure you read the following two resources before posting to this list:

If you want to request a feature or an improvement, also see this: https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/wiki/Successfully-requesting-and-integrating-new-features-and-improvements-in-GeoServer

Geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users

–

Mr. Carlo Cancellieri
skype: ccancellieri
Twitter: @cancellieric
LinkedIn: http://it.linkedin.com/in/ccancellieri/

Geoserver-users mailing list

Please make sure you read the following two resources before posting to this list:

If you want to request a feature or an improvement, also see this: https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/wiki/Successfully-requesting-and-integrating-new-features-and-improvements-in-GeoServer

Geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users

–

Mr. Carlo Cancellieri
skype: ccancellieri
Twitter: @cancellieric
LinkedIn: http://it.linkedin.com/in/ccancellieri/

–

Mr. Carlo Cancellieri
skype: ccancellieri
Twitter: @cancellieric
LinkedIn: http://it.linkedin.com/in/ccancellieri/

11

Thanks I’ll try the same.

On Sun, 13 Sep 2020, 1:13 am Jody Garnett, <jody.garnett@anonymised.com.84…> wrote:

I am not sure there are any specific instructions, the generic approach is to reuse your previous data_dir folder…

  1. Take your data directory out to a separate folder, this is already done for the platform independent binary.

geoserver-2.17.0-bin % ls
NOTICE.md RUNNING.txt bin etc license modules start.ini webapps
README.txt VERSION.txt data_dir lib logs resources start.jar

  1. Make a backup of this data_directory somewhere safe (I put one in my Downloads folder below)

geoserver-2.17.2-bin % zip -r ~/Downloads/data_dir.zip data_dir

  1. Grab a new release

  2. Delete the existing data_dir (since we are going to migrate our old one)

geoserver-2.18-RC-bin % rm -r data_dir

  1. Unzip your previous data directory into position

geoserver-2.18-RC-bin % unzip ~/Downloads/data_dir.zip

  1. Start it up like normal and confirm it works:

geoserver-2.18-RC-bin % bin/startup.sh

  1. troubleshooting:
  • Remember to make sure the data_dir is readable by the same user that is going to run the bin/start.sh command (you may need to adjust permissions with chown).
  • The main reason for it not starting up is forgetting to install all the same extensions as your previous implementation. If you for example have a data_dir/wps.xml file and have not installed the wps extension the new geoserver will not know what to do.

–
Jody Garnett

On Fri, 11 Sep 2020 at 23:13, Shashi Verma <shashiv707@anonymised.com> wrote:

Thanks for your response,
Yes, you are correct I’m also doing the same.
But let me try to explain again, suppose I’m working on a platform-independent binary (extracted .zip file as u said) of 2.14.4 version and we have a lot of published layers or services and different types of settings in GeoServer which I’ve done as per requirement. The problem is here now I want to update my geoserver2.14.4 in geoserver2.17.2 with the same settings(as in geoserver2.14.4) and all layers or services which I’ve published in GeoServer version 2.14.4,
like upgrading the older version to newer version. I’ve found many links and helps to upgrade newer versions for windows installer .exe but not for platform-independent binary (.zip).
I guess now it would be clear for you. Please help me with the same.
I’ll be very grateful to you.

Thanks
Shashi

On Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 12:43 AM Jody Garnett <jody.garnett@anonymised.com> wrote:

I am also confused as I do not know what platform independent binary" you are looking for?

We offer a “zip” download which includes “start.bat” and “start.sh” scripts to run java, this is the platform independent binary link on the release page:

–
Jody Garnett

On Fri, 11 Sep 2020 at 09:59, carlo cancellieri <geo.ccancellieri@anonymised.com> wrote:

Shashi,
welcome!

Can you please describe in detail your environment and the problem you are facing?

C.

Il giorno ven 11 set 2020 alle ore 18:51 Shashi Verma <shashiv707@anonymised.com> ha scritto:

Dear Carlo,
Actually this is my first time in this user list group so I’m not much aware about its process, how can I help you with my work status.
Links sent by you I’ve tried already but there is no any solution of my problem.

Thanks

On Fri, 11 Sep 2020, 10:11 pm carlo cancellieri, <geo.ccancellieri@anonymised.com> wrote:

Ciao Shashi,
there are several changes, actually I’m not informed about your task status so I can only point you here:

https://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/installation/upgrade.html#jts-type-bindings-geoserver-2-14-and-newer
and
https://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/datadirectory/migrating.html#datadir-migrating

The jetty version can be transparently used over windows, I would also suggest to use an external data directory and look carefully here:

https://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/installation/index.html

Following step by step the installation guide especially for Windows based installation.

Regards,
C.

Il giorno ven 11 set 2020 alle ore 17:32 Shashi Verma <shashiv707@anonymised.com> ha scritto:

Thanks carlo cancellieri.

Dear,

I’ve got stuck to upgrading platform independent binary geoserver 2.14.4 to geoserver 2.18RC. I’ve got solution for windows installer but not for platform independent binary.
I’m digging out since two days and still I don’t have any solution pls help if it is
possible. I’ve to report to the manager.

I’ll be very grateful to you.

Thanks in advance.
Shashi

On Fri, 11 Sep 2020, 8:41 pm carlo cancellieri, <geo.ccancellieri@anonymised.com> wrote:

Thanks for all your effort guys,

we’re testing the RC and we confirm that it correctly ships what we needed vectortiles + pregen in addition to the sta

Actually I’m still not 100% satisfied about that and I’d love to continue working in that direction adding the on the fly simplification support also (but it’s a more complex challenge that requires time).

I have some concern on the distance calculation and I hope to be able to talk with the maintainer of that extension to discuss and clarify various aspects.

Anyhow it is doing what we need and we can’t wait for the release to deliver such functionality into our cloud (with the 2.17.3).

oh, it was very funny to see our project name ‘hidden’ into the release description… (hand-in-hand)

My best regards
C.

Il giorno gio 10 set 2020 alle ore 23:25 Jody Garnett <jody.garnett@anonymised.com> ha scritto:

Hey everyone,

GeoServer 2.18-RC Release Candidate is now available for testing, read all about it in our blog: http://blog.geoserver.org/2020/09/08/geoserver-2-18-rc-released/

Thanks to Jukka Rahkonen and Brad Hards for initial testing. To add your name to the list for the 2.18 release announcement: download the release candidate, try it out, and reply to this email thread!

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Thank you so much for your help it’s working thanks a lot.

On Sun, 13 Sep 2020, 1:13 am Jody Garnett, <jody.garnett@anonymised.com> wrote:

I am not sure there are any specific instructions, the generic approach is to reuse your previous data_dir folder…

  1. Take your data directory out to a separate folder, this is already done for the platform independent binary.

geoserver-2.17.0-bin % ls
NOTICE.md RUNNING.txt bin etc license modules start.ini webapps
README.txt VERSION.txt data_dir lib logs resources start.jar

  1. Make a backup of this data_directory somewhere safe (I put one in my Downloads folder below)

geoserver-2.17.2-bin % zip -r ~/Downloads/data_dir.zip data_dir

  1. Grab a new release

  2. Delete the existing data_dir (since we are going to migrate our old one)

geoserver-2.18-RC-bin % rm -r data_dir

  1. Unzip your previous data directory into position

geoserver-2.18-RC-bin % unzip ~/Downloads/data_dir.zip

  1. Start it up like normal and confirm it works:

geoserver-2.18-RC-bin % bin/startup.sh

  1. troubleshooting:
  • Remember to make sure the data_dir is readable by the same user that is going to run the bin/start.sh command (you may need to adjust permissions with chown).
  • The main reason for it not starting up is forgetting to install all the same extensions as your previous implementation. If you for example have a data_dir/wps.xml file and have not installed the wps extension the new geoserver will not know what to do.

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On Fri, 11 Sep 2020 at 23:13, Shashi Verma <shashiv707@anonymised.com> wrote:

Thanks for your response,
Yes, you are correct I’m also doing the same.
But let me try to explain again, suppose I’m working on a platform-independent binary (extracted .zip file as u said) of 2.14.4 version and we have a lot of published layers or services and different types of settings in GeoServer which I’ve done as per requirement. The problem is here now I want to update my geoserver2.14.4 in geoserver2.17.2 with the same settings(as in geoserver2.14.4) and all layers or services which I’ve published in GeoServer version 2.14.4,
like upgrading the older version to newer version. I’ve found many links and helps to upgrade newer versions for windows installer .exe but not for platform-independent binary (.zip).
I guess now it would be clear for you. Please help me with the same.
I’ll be very grateful to you.

Thanks
Shashi

On Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 12:43 AM Jody Garnett <jody.garnett@anonymised.com> wrote:

I am also confused as I do not know what platform independent binary" you are looking for?

We offer a “zip” download which includes “start.bat” and “start.sh” scripts to run java, this is the platform independent binary link on the release page:

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On Fri, 11 Sep 2020 at 09:59, carlo cancellieri <geo.ccancellieri@anonymised.com> wrote:

Shashi,
welcome!

Can you please describe in detail your environment and the problem you are facing?

C.

Il giorno ven 11 set 2020 alle ore 18:51 Shashi Verma <shashiv707@anonymised.com> ha scritto:

Dear Carlo,
Actually this is my first time in this user list group so I’m not much aware about its process, how can I help you with my work status.
Links sent by you I’ve tried already but there is no any solution of my problem.

Thanks

On Fri, 11 Sep 2020, 10:11 pm carlo cancellieri, <geo.ccancellieri@anonymised.com> wrote:

Ciao Shashi,
there are several changes, actually I’m not informed about your task status so I can only point you here:

https://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/installation/upgrade.html#jts-type-bindings-geoserver-2-14-and-newer
and
https://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/datadirectory/migrating.html#datadir-migrating

The jetty version can be transparently used over windows, I would also suggest to use an external data directory and look carefully here:

https://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/installation/index.html

Following step by step the installation guide especially for Windows based installation.

Regards,
C.

Il giorno ven 11 set 2020 alle ore 17:32 Shashi Verma <shashiv707@anonymised.com> ha scritto:

Thanks carlo cancellieri.

Dear,

I’ve got stuck to upgrading platform independent binary geoserver 2.14.4 to geoserver 2.18RC. I’ve got solution for windows installer but not for platform independent binary.
I’m digging out since two days and still I don’t have any solution pls help if it is
possible. I’ve to report to the manager.

I’ll be very grateful to you.

Thanks in advance.
Shashi

On Fri, 11 Sep 2020, 8:41 pm carlo cancellieri, <geo.ccancellieri@anonymised.com> wrote:

Thanks for all your effort guys,

we’re testing the RC and we confirm that it correctly ships what we needed vectortiles + pregen in addition to the sta

Actually I’m still not 100% satisfied about that and I’d love to continue working in that direction adding the on the fly simplification support also (but it’s a more complex challenge that requires time).

I have some concern on the distance calculation and I hope to be able to talk with the maintainer of that extension to discuss and clarify various aspects.

Anyhow it is doing what we need and we can’t wait for the release to deliver such functionality into our cloud (with the 2.17.3).

oh, it was very funny to see our project name ‘hidden’ into the release description… (hand-in-hand)

My best regards
C.

Il giorno gio 10 set 2020 alle ore 23:25 Jody Garnett <jody.garnett@anonymised.com> ha scritto:

Hey everyone,

GeoServer 2.18-RC Release Candidate is now available for testing, read all about it in our blog: http://blog.geoserver.org/2020/09/08/geoserver-2-18-rc-released/

Thanks to Jukka Rahkonen and Brad Hards for initial testing. To add your name to the list for the 2.18 release announcement: download the release candidate, try it out, and reply to this email thread!

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GeoServer Project Steering Committee

Geoserver-users mailing list

Please make sure you read the following two resources before posting to this list:

If you want to request a feature or an improvement, also see this: https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/wiki/Successfully-requesting-and-integrating-new-features-and-improvements-in-GeoServer

Geoserver-users@anonymised.comnet
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users

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Mr. Carlo Cancellieri
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Twitter: @cancellieric
LinkedIn: http://it.linkedin.com/in/ccancellieri/

Geoserver-users mailing list

Please make sure you read the following two resources before posting to this list:

If you want to request a feature or an improvement, also see this: https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/wiki/Successfully-requesting-and-integrating-new-features-and-improvements-in-GeoServer

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Twitter: @cancellieric
LinkedIn: http://it.linkedin.com/in/ccancellieri/

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Twitter: @cancellieric
LinkedIn: http://it.linkedin.com/in/ccancellieri/

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Hi Jody, team,

My thanks to the community for making GeoServer possible.

As a recent GeoServer instance maintainer I am pleased to assist with the RC testing.

I am running the .war in Tomcat on Windows with OpenJDK.

I tested the upgrade on a copy of an existing data directory from 2.17.1. There are no issues to note.

The SQL server and control flow module extensions, together with hosted .tif, .shp and .gpkg published to WMS with integrated GWC all works great.

Cheers,

Russell.

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Nice, thanks for testing. If you have any picture to go with that section I would love to include it in the final announcement (visual makes a better impact).

We also try and credit folks improving the functionality, so if you have a sentence I can use mention your project please speak up :slight_smile:

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On Fri, 11 Sep 2020 at 08:07, carlo cancellieri <geo.ccancellieri@…84…> wrote:

Thanks for all your effort guys,

we’re testing the RC and we confirm that it correctly ships what we needed vectortiles + pregen in addition to the sta

Actually I’m still not 100% satisfied about that and I’d love to continue working in that direction adding the on the fly simplification support also (but it’s a more complex challenge that requires time).

I have some concern on the distance calculation and I hope to be able to talk with the maintainer of that extension to discuss and clarify various aspects.

Anyhow it is doing what we need and we can’t wait for the release to deliver such functionality into our cloud (with the 2.17.3).

oh, it was very funny to see our project name ‘hidden’ into the release description… (hand-in-hand)

My best regards

C.

Il giorno gio 10 set 2020 alle ore 23:25 Jody Garnett <jody.garnett@…84…> ha scritto:

Hey everyone,

GeoServer 2.18-RC Release Candidate is now available for testing, read all about it in our blog: http://blog.geoserver.org/2020/09/08/geoserver-2-18-rc-released/

Thanks to Jukka Rahkonen and Brad Hards for initial testing. To add your name to the list for the 2.18 release announcement: download the release candidate, try it out, and reply to this email thread!

–

GeoServer Project Steering Committee

Geoserver-users mailing list

Please make sure you read the following two resources before posting to this list:

If you want to request a feature or an improvement, also see this: https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/wiki/Successfully-requesting-and-integrating-new-features-and-improvements-in-GeoServer

Geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net
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Twitter: @cancellieric

LinkedIn: http://it.linkedin.com/in/ccancellieri/

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Thanks Russell, it is great to have testing on the SQL Server (as not many folks have access to that environment).

I hope you like the workflow improvements :slight_smile:

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Glad it is working out, these step are in the manual https://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/installation/upgrade.html

If you have any improvements to make to this page based on your experience it would be a kindness.

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