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What's New?

Version 2.4.4

Released January 9

This release is a primarily a maintenance release, but also contains many improvements, including:

• GeoServer: Added Basic HTTP authentication with cascaded WMS servers
• GeoServer: Support for loading "non-advertised" layers
• GeoServer: Web Processing Service (WPS) now included
• GeoServer: Better INSPIRE View Service compliance
• GeoWebCache: Significantly improved UI for configuration of GeoWebCache
• GeoExplorer: Improved Glassfish and WebSphere container support
• GeoExplorer: Now with full login/logout
• GeoExplorer: Faster loading of JavaScript resources

Component versions:

• GeoServer 2.1.3, rev 16671
• GeoTools 2.7.4, rev 38445
• GeoWebCache 1.3-RC2, rev 2d6eff732
• GeoExplorer, rev 385f6a9
• OpenLayers 2.11
• PostGIS 1.5
• PostgreSQL 8.4.9

Version 2.4.3

Released June 22

This release contains some improvements and bug fixes, including:

• GeoExplorer: Improved Google Earth API key handling
• GeoExplorer: New graphical prompt for entering API key for Google Earth plugin
• GeoServer: Improved file handling to prevent "too many open files" errors

Version 2.4.1

Released April 11

This release contains some improvements and bug fixes, including:

• GeoExplorer: Integrated styling and editing capabilities
• GeoExplorer: New Upload Data function for directly adding data to GeoServer
• GeoExplorer: Improved authentication process

Version 2.3.3

Released January 27

This release contains some improvements and bug fixes, including:

• Linux packages now available for Ubuntu 10.04 and CentOS 5.5
• GeoServer: Integrated GeoWebCache caching with GeoServer WMS (with disk quota)
• GeoServer: Raster reprojection performance improvements
• GeoServer: Web Coverage Server (WCS) request builder
• GeoServer: Monitoring reenabled
• GeoExplorer: New layers: Bing and Mapquest-rendered OpenStreetMap

Version 2.3.2

Released December 21

This release contains some improvements and bug fixes, including:

• GeoServer: Added WMS 1.3 support
• GeoServer: Partial support for SE 1.1 / SLD 1.1
• GeoServer: Support for ECQL
• GeoServer: REST API now handles SQL views
• GeoExplorer: Pegged to Google Maps API version 3.2 for more stability

Version 2.3.1

Released December 6

This release contains some stability improvements and a few bug fixes, including:

• GeoServer: Layer Importer interface issues resolved
• GeoExplorer: Data directory can now be specified as an init parameter
• GeoExplorer: New tutorial on adding feature editing capabilities

Note: Monitoring extension temporarily removed in this release due to stability issues.

Version 2.3.0

Released November 22

This release contains numerous bug fixes and updates, including:

• GeoServer: Upgraded to version 2.1.x ("trunk")
• GeoServer: Added support for Cascading WMS
• GeoServer: Added Monitoring module
• GeoExplorer: Completely updated user guide

Note: There have been reports of some intermittent issues with the Layer Importer interface, but this should not affect functionality.

Version 2.1.3

Released August 30

This release is a minor bug fix update, including:

• GeoExplorer: Improvements to print preview
• GeoServer: Control flow enabled by default for better resource management
• Dashboard: More descriptive notifications
• Dashboard: Checks for a valid GeoServer data directory before Save/Start

Version 2.1.2

Released August 12

This release is a minor bug fix update, including:

• GeoServer: Better WFS integration with other Suite components
• Recipes: New GeoExt examples for building your own GeoExplorer-type applications

Version 2.1.1

Released August 2

This release contains numerous bug fixes and updates, including:

• GeoExplorer: Better printing support in Safari and Chrome
• GeoExplorer: Reduced spurious activity regarding loaded Google layers
• Styler: Multiple FeatureTypeStyles in SLDs can now be read

Version 2.1.0

Released July 19

This release contains numerous bug fixes and updates, including:

• GeoExplorer: New printing feature will export maps to PDF
• GeoExplorer: Now compatible with Google Maps API v3 (no API key needed)
• Styler: SLD vendor options are now preserved
• GeoWebCache: Newly created layer groups are now available
• GeoServer: Spaces now allowed in layer names

Version 1.9.2

Released June 8

This release contains numerous bug fixes and updates, including:

• Linux: PostGIS now in integrated (Dashboard integration still to come)
• Dashboard: Improved start/stop handling, now with timeout
• Dashboard: Suite won't start with a port conflict
• Styler: Better color picker
• GeoExplorer: Now compatible with ArcGIS
• GeoExplorer: Map publishing wizard now with improved output
• GeoEditor: Can now configure map zoom levels

Version 1.9.1

Released June 2

This is a maintenance release designed to improve stability.

Version 1.9.0

Released May 12

The new features in this release include:

• PostGIS is now integrated into the OpenGeo Suite install experience! You now get a complete spatial mapping stack: database, map server, tile cache, web interface.
• pgShapeLoader, a graphical interface for loading shapefiles into your PostGIS database.
• pgAdmin, a graphical interface for database administration.
• GeoEditor, a web application. GeoEditor allows for web based editing of data, regardless of the underlying data format (shapefiles, PostGIS, ArcSDE, Oracle Spatial, DB2, etc.).

Version 1.0r1

Released January 20

• Initial Release

All versions include the latest bug fixes and updates from the community projects at the time of release.