GeoTools / GeoServer PMC meeting - 2025-06-17

[tbarsballe]

Attending- Torben Barsballe

• Andrea Aime

• Jukka Rahkonen

• Peter Smythe

• Jody Garnett

Actions from prior meetings:-

gabe: some small update for dev guide, updating conf.py by hand no longer needed

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  Volunteer needed: postgis testing github workflow action

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  jody: Review bom pull request for GS3 activity

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  Juan: Review new OAuth PR for GS3 activity

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  Jody: Public vulnerability disclosure June 9 (tentative)

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  Peter: Make the CITE proposal again please ($900? or $400?)

Agenda1. Proposals

1. Release Schedule

2. foss4g-eu planning

3. gs3 updates

4. PR Roundup

5. The geoserver security mailing list subscriptions

Actions-

All: Vote on open proposals if you haven’t already

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  Peter: Cite test proposal - Coordinate payment, add blog post, update site

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  Jody: make a blog post covering FOSS4G workshops and presentations (see below)

Proposals

GSIP-232 Upgrade GeoServer and GeoWebCache Build to Java 17

• merged, some doc improvements to make later

• gabe really does not enjoy sphinx, and started doing some markdown in the dev folders

• https://github.com/geotools/geotools/blob/main/BOM-USAGE.md

• yeah not so cool gabe but I understand

GSIP-233 Community Release Requirements

• thanks for feedback, it is all addressed ?!?

CITE Tests proposal

• Is this a go? Do you need any more any events, open for another a 3 days

• Peter: Coordinate payment, and then we will need a blog post and update our web page

Release Schedule

Peter! Have there been enough changes?

• https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/compare/2.26.3…2.26.x

• only changes in community module

• But we should revisit after PR roundup below

• not enough change

foss4g-eu planning

Workshops:

• intro to geoserver: andrea and jody doing this one (Monday morning)

• OGC APIs, an introduction with GeoServer (Monday afternoon)

• Vector tiles with GeoServer (Tuesday afternoon)

Presentations:

• State of GeoServer 2.27.1

• GeoServer 3 Status Report

• State of GeoTools, JTS and ImageN

• Approaching Security with Kindness and Compassion

• Revisiting earning your support 10 years on

• OGC APIs with GeoServer: implementation, availability, and next steps

• Serving earth observation data with GeoServer: COG, STAC, OpenSearch and more…

• Processing and publishing Maritime AIS data with GeoServer and Databricks in Azure

• Publishing INSPIRE and other rich data models in GeoServer made easy with Smart Data Loader and Features Templating

• Mastering Security with GeoServer, GeoFence, and OpenID

• Vector mosaicking with GeoServer

• Certified GeoServer: status of OGC service and format compliance

• Vector tiles and GeoServer: dynamic vector tiles server, XYZ services, and base maps

action:

• jody: make a blog post covering workshops and presentations above

GS3 code sprint:

• saturday - sunday focused on ImageN

gs3 updates- GeoTools BOM - merged, seems to be going okay?

• Some additional QA workflows to catch dependency change failures downstream

• Java 17 the new minimum

• These PRs are in the works

• GeoTools is open, making downstream build fail

• GS and GWC in the works

• JAI-Ext fix is merged

• ImageN - new icon, not much progress after code sprint

• OAuth2 progress

• Alessio is looking at making the core extensible, so we do not have so many extensions created, Andreas Watermeyer participating to review too

Discussion on “in-kind” participation, to happen as Milestone 1 settles

• dedicated resources that can be scheduled and take load off developers → logo on page

• testing nightly build, mentioned in blog posts and updates

PR Roundup- GEOT-7776: ready for review, error message to useful logs

• GWC: postgresql 42.7.7: backport underway, fix for standalone gwc

• GeoServer

• KeyStore password change:

• Update javadocs to indicate MasterPasswordController is actually for keystore password

• Q: Rename class? Can try it…
  The rest api endpoint will remain the same binding

• Login as Root:

• Root login enable is useful when adjusting security settings, fallback to avoid being locked out, …

• Create an authentication filter REST API

Breakout on configuration order:

• Q: Can we make the configuration sorting consistent?
  Yes: Provided by Bean property order

• Yes: Hashmap order is random, but we can make this sorted: security rules, and other examples like metadata map, styles, etc…

• TreeMap for alphabetical order: Metadatamap etc…

• Examples of LinkedHashMap

• JAIExt Operations order

• Allowed MIME types for GetMap and GetFeatureInfo

• LinkedHashSet is used when we want to have order of operators, selected styles (this could also have move up + move down button)