The GeoServer team is pleased to announce the release of GeoServer 2.3-beta1.
The release is available for download from:
http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/GeoServer+2.3-beta1
The GeoServer project has adopted a “time boxed” release schedule and will shortly be entering the release candidate stage. As such this beat1 release is feature complete and made available for your review and feedback.
This release comes with some exciting new features. The new and noteworthy include:
- Layer “group” control has greatly improved with support for nested layer groups forming a tree of layers in the GetCapabilities document.
- Allow the administrator to select which processes to expose to the users
- Upgrading to GeoWebCache 1.4 series
- REST Extensible and customizable versions report
- The community monitor module is now available as a GeoServer extension
- Scalability enhancements have been made to the GeoServer Catalog
- GeoServer security continues to improve with improvements to security filter chains
- Along with many other improvements and bug fixes.
The entire change log for the 2.3 series is available in the issue tracker:
Thanks to all those who contributed bug fixes, new features, bug reports, and testing to this release. A special thanks to the Aus-NZ Chapter who double checked the GeoServer codebase as on of the last steps of OSGeo Incubation.
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The GeoServer Team