<font face="Lucida Grande"><span style="line-height: 21px; text-align: left; ">The GeoTools community is pleased to announce the availability of GeoTools 9.0 for </span><a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/geotools/files/GeoTools%209%20Releases/9.0-RC1" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(202, 121, 0); line-height: 21px; text-align: left; ">download from sourceforge</a><span style="line-height: 21px; text-align: left; ">:</span><br style="line-height: 21px; text-align: left; "></font><div style="background-color: white; "><ul style="line-height: 21px; "><li style="margin-left: 15px; "><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/geotools/files/GeoTools%209%20Releases/9.0-RC1/geotools-9.0-bin.zip/download" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(202, 121, 0); "><font face="Lucida Grande">geotools-9.0-bin.zip</font></a></li><li style="margin-left: 15px; "><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/geotools/files/GeoTools%209%20Releases/9.0-RC1/geotools-9.0-doc.zip/download" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(202, 121, 0); "><font face="Lucida Grande">geotools-9.0-doc.zip</font></a></li><li style="margin-left: 15px; "><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/geotools/files/GeoTools%209%20Releases/9.0-RC1/geotools-9.0-userguide.zip/download" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(202, 121, 0); "><font face="Lucida Grande">geotools-9.0-userguide.zip</font></a></li><li style="margin-left: 15px; "><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/geotools/files/GeoTools%209%20Releases/9.0-RC1/geotools-9.0-project.zip/download" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(202, 121, 0); "><font face="Lucida Grande">geotools-9.0-project.zip</font></a></li></ul><font face="Lucida Grande"><span style="line-height: 21px; ">This release is also deployed to our </span><a href="http://download.osgeo.org/webdav/geotools/org/geotools/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(202, 121, 0); line-height: 21px; ">OSGeo Maven Repository</a>.<br><br style="line-height: 21px; "><span style="line-height: 21px; ">This is the first stable release of the <a href="http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/9.x" style="color: rgb(202, 121, 0); ">9.x</a> series made in conjunction with the <a href="http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/GeoServer+2.3.0" style="color: rgb(202, 121, 0); ">GeoServer 2.3.0</a> release</span><span style="line-height: 21px; ">. This release represents the successful transition of the project to a six month <a href="http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Timed+Release" style="color: rgb(202, 121, 0); ">timed release</a> cycle.</span><br><span style="line-height: 21px; "><br></span><span style="line-height: 21px; ">This release contains mostly bug fixes since </span><a href="http://geotoolsnews.blogspot.it/2013/02/geotools-90-rc1-released.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(202, 121, 0); line-height: 21px; ">9.0-RC1</a>. Please <span style="line-height: 21px; ">see the <a href="http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10270&version=19068" style="color: rgb(202, 121, 0); ">change log</a> for more details.</span><br><span style="line-height: 21px; "><br></span><span style="line-height: 21px; ">Here is a summary of the major news in the 9.x series:</span><br></font><ul><li><font face="Lucida Grande"><a href="http://geotoolsnews.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/featurecollection-cleanup.html" style="color: rgb(202, 121, 0); ">Feature Collection Clean up</a>: we have retired several methods from FeatureCollection that were only applicable for in memory feature collections. A Quality Assurance review was performed on all FeatureCollection implementations resulting in a great improvement on consistency. Thanks to Jody Garnett and Andrea Aime for this work.</font></li><li><font face="Lucida Grande">The <a href="http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Vector+grids" style="color: rgb(202, 121, 0); ">Vector Grid</a> module has graduated from the "unsupported" staging area and is now included as an extension. Thanks to Micheal Bedward for championing this work.</font></li><li><font face="Lucida Grande">General support for complex features has been <a href="http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Separate+general+complex+feature+classes+from+gt-app-schema" style="color: rgb(202, 121, 0); ">factored out into the gt-complex</a> module for reuse.</font></li><li><font face="Lucida Grande">FeatureCollection, FeatureIteartor and FeatureReader are Java 7 ready with support for <a href="http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Java+7+try-with-resource+compatibility" style="color: rgb(202, 121, 0); ">try-with-resource syntax</a>.</font></li><li><font face="Lucida Grande"><a href="http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Partial+3D+data+support" style="color: rgb(202, 121, 0); ">Partial 3D data support</a> has been added with direct support for PostGIS, Oracle, and Property DataStore. Thanks to Andrea Aime for the initial implementation, with a follow-up funded by <a href="http://www.nt.gov.au/ntlis/" style="color: rgb(202, 121, 0); ">NTLIS</a> for Oracle support.</font></li><li><font face="Lucida Grande">Thanks to Niels Charlier for putting together <a href="http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Support+for+three-dimensional+envelopes+and+bounding+box+filters" style="color: rgb(202, 121, 0); ">ReferenceEnvelope3D</a> allowing us to query three-dimensional datasets.</font></li><li><font face="Lucida Grande">WMS client support has greatly improved with WMS 1.3.0 now enabled by default during version negotiation. Thanks to LISAsoft and the OGC for supporting this work.</font></li><li><font face="Lucida Grande">New OGC models have been added for <a href="https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOT-4333" style="color: rgb(202, 121, 0); ">WCS 2.0</a> and <a href="https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOT-4332" style="color: rgb(202, 121, 0); ">OWS 2.0</a> along with <a href="https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOT-4376" style="color: rgb(202, 121, 0); ">XML support</a>.</font></li><li><font face="Lucida Grande">Updated to use the latest <a href="https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOT-4370" style="color: rgb(202, 121, 0); ">ImageIO-Ext 1.1.6</a> and <a href="https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOT-4348" style="color: rgb(202, 121, 0); ">JTS 1.13</a> releases</font></li></ul></div><div style="background-color: white; "><font face="Lucida Grande"><span style="line-height: 21px; ">The GeoTools 9.0 series contains API changes. Developers are encouraged to review the </span><a href="http://docs.geotools.org/latest/userguide/welcome/upgrade.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(202, 121, 0); line-height: 21px; ">upgrade instructions</a><span style="line-height: 21px; "> prior to use.</span></font></div><div style="background-color: white; "><font face="Lucida Grande"><br style="line-height: 21px; "><span style="line-height: 21px; ">If you missed the previous milestones, betas and RCs you can have a look at the complete set of improvements provided by the 9.0 series here:</span><br></font><ul style="line-height: 21px; "><li style="margin-left: 15px; "><a href="http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10270&version=19068" style="color: rgb(202, 121, 0); "><font face="Lucida Grande">GeoTools 9.0 Release Notes</font></a></li><li style="margin-left: 15px; "><a href="http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10270&version=19067" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(202, 121, 0); "><font face="Lucida Grande">GeoTools 9.0-RC1 Release Notes</font></a></li><li style="margin-left: 15px; "><a href="https://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10270&version=18966" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(202, 121, 0); "><font face="Lucida Grande">GeoTools 9.0-beta1 Release Notes</font></a></li><li style="margin-left: 15px; "><a href="https://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10270&version=18643" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(202, 121, 0); "><font face="Lucida Grande">GeoTools 9.0-M0 Release Notes</font></a></li></ul><div><span style="line-height: 21px; "><font face="Luc
ida Grande">Thanks to Andrea and GeoSolutions for putting this release out.</font></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 21px; "><font face="Lucida Grande"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 21px; "><font face="Lucida Grande">Enjoy,</font></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 21px; "><font face="Lucida Grande">The GeoTools Community</font></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 21px; "><font face="Lucida Grande">http://geotools.org/</font></span></div></div>