<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13px; ">The Geotools community is pleased to announce the release of Geotools 8.1 to  </span><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/geotools/files/GeoTools%208%20Releases/8.1/" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13px; ">sourceforge downloads</a><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13px; ">:</span><br style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13px; "><ul style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13px; "><li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/geotools/files/GeoTools%208%20Releases/8.1/geotools-8.1-bin.zip/download">geotools-8.1-bin.zip</a></li><li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/geotools/files/GeoTools%208%20Releases/8.1/geotools-8.1-doc.zip/download">geotools-8.1-doc.zip</a></li><li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/geotools/files/GeoTools%208%20Releases/8.1/geotools-8.1-userguide.zip/download">geotools-8.1-userguide.zip</a></li><li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/geotools/files/GeoTools%208%20Releases/8.1/geotools-8.1-project.zip/download">geotools-8.1-project.zip</a></li><li><a href="https://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10270&version=18691">GeoTools 8.1 Release Notes</a></li></ul><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13px; ">This release is also deployed to our OSGeo </span><a href="http://download.osgeo.org/webdav/geotools/org/geotools/" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13px; ">Maven Repository</a><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13px; ">. For more information on setting up your project with Maven, see the </span><a href="http://docs.geotools.org/stable/userguide/tutorial/quickstart/index.html" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13px; ">Quickstart </a><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13px; "> included in the user guide.</span><br style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13px; "><br style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13px; ">We would like to thank all the developers, users and contributor that have helped to make this release possible.</span><br style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13px; "><br style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13px; ">Enjoy,</span><br style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13px; ">The GeoTools Community</span><br style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13px; "><a href="http://geotools.org/" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13px; ">http://geotools.org</a><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13px; "></span><h2 style="font-family: Times; ">About GeoTools 8.1</h2><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13px; ">Geotools 8.1 is a stable release made in conjunction with </span><a href="http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/GeoServer+2.2-RC3" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13px; ">GeoServer 2.2-RC3</a><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13px; "> and </span><a href="http://udig-news.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/udig-132-released.html" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13px; ">uDig 1.3.2</a><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13px; ">.</span><br style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13px; "><br style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13px; ">This is a bug fix release with a small number of improvements:</span><ul style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13px; "><li>[<a href="https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOT-4126">GEOT-4126</a>] App-schema: Enable specifying row number in getting sourceExpressionw for denormalised rows</li><li>[<a href="https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOT-4216">GEOT-4216</a>] Add SplitPolygon, Polygonize processes</li><li>[<a href="https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOT-4217">GEOT-4217</a>] H2DataStoreFactory does not create a manageable data source</li><li>[<a href="https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOT-4236">GEOT-4236</a>] Allow external PRJ to override internal CRS definition</li><li>For additional information (and 11 bug fixes) please see the <a href="https://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10270&version=18691">GeoTools 8.1 Release Notes</a>.</li></ul><h2 style="font-family: Times; ">About The GeoTools 8 Series</h2><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13px; ">The GeoTools 8 is the stable release series recommended for production systems.</span><br style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13px; "><br style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13px; ">New features available in Geotools 8:</span><br style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13px; "><ul style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13px; "><li>Great new <a href="http://docs.geotools.org/latest/userguide/">user guide</a> with live codes examples, tutorials and build instructions</li><li>Build improvements with support for <a href="http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Java+6">Update to Java 6</a> and support for either <a href="http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Allow+build+with+Maven+2+or+Maven+3">Maven 2 or Maven 3</a></li><li>Filter 2.0 Support consisting of<ul><li><a href="http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/New+ILIKE+statement">New ILIKE statement</a></li><li><a href="http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Support+Multi-Valued+Attributes+in+Filter+Comparison+Operators">Support Multi-Valued Attributes in Filter Comparison Operators</a></li><li><a href="http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Temporal+Filters">Temporal Filters</a></li><li><a href="http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Describe+Function+with+FunctionName">Describe Function with FunctionName</a></li><li><a href="http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Function+lookup+using+qualified+Name">Detailed Argument and Return Info for FunctionName</a></li><li><a href="http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/ResourceId">ResourceId support for versioned data</a></li></ul></li><li><a href="http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Join+Support">Add support for joins to the WFS protocol</a></li><li><a href="http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Function+lookup+using+qualified+Name">Function lookup using qualified Name</a></li><li><a href="http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/MapContext+Refactor">Separate MapContext from MapViewport</a> allowing multiple tiles to use the same map definition</li><li>For more information please review the GeoTools 8 change control <a href="http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/8.x">proposals</a></li></ul><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13px; ">For those migrating from GeoTools 2.7, </span><a href="http://docs.geotools.org/latest/userguide/welcome/upgrade.html" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13px; ">upgrade instructions are available</a><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13px; ">. No additional GeoTools 2.7.x releases are scheduled. </span>