<div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The GeoServer team is happy to announce the release of GeoServer 2.9.0:</font></div><div><ul><li><a href="http://geoserver.org/release/2.9.0/"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">http://geoserver.org/release/2.9.0/</font></a></li></ul></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">This is the new stable release suitable for use in production. This release <b>requires the use of Java 8</b>.</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Important updates:</font></div><div><ul><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Web admin application layer, preview, global settings, image processing and raster access screens have been updated.</font></li><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">User guide has been restructured for ease of navigation and to reduce duplication</font></li><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The REST API can now be used to manage icons, fonts and configuration files and report on the status of installed components.</font></li><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Internally this release features Wicket 7 and Spring 4 and the latest JAI-Ext library.</font></li><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Layer bounds can now be generated from spatial reference systems extent</font></li><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Styles can now be configured with a custom legend.</font></li><li><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">For more details please see the </span><a href="http://blog.geoserver.org/2016/05/30/geoserver-2-9-0-released/" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">blog post</a> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">and release notes </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,37,35);font-size:12px"> (</span><a href="https://osgeo-org.atlassian.net/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10000&version=13003" style="color:rgb(0,118,161);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:12px;outline-style:none!important">2.9.0</a><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,37,35);font-size:12px">|</span><a href="https://osgeo-org.atlassian.net/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10000&version=12502" style="color:rgb(0,118,161);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:12px;outline-style:none!important">RC1</a><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,37,35);font-size:12px">|</span><a href="https://osgeo-org.atlassian.net/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10000&version=12700" style="color:rgb(0,118,161);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:12px;outline-style:none!important">beta2</a><font color="#262523">|</font><a href="https://osgeo-org.atlassian.net/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10000&version=12100" style="color:rgb(0,118,161);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:12px;outline-style:none!important">beta</a>|<a href="https://osgeo-org.atlassian.net/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10000&version=11401" style="color:rgb(0,118,161);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:12px;outline-style:none!important">M0</a><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,37,35);font-size:12px">)</span></li></ul></div><div><font color="#262523" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px">Thanks to Jody and Devon (from Boundless) for publishing this release. This release was delayed for two months due to incompatibility with Java 8. Thanks for the dedicated testing a fix support from Andrea, Alessandro, Alex, Ben, Brad, Jukka, Niels, Torben and others during this long release cycle. Special thanks to </span></font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,37,35);font-size:12px">sponsors of the </span><a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoServer_Code_Sprint_2016" style="color:rgb(0,118,161);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:12px;outline-style:none!important">Wicket 7 upgrade</a><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,37,35);font-size:12px"> sprint: </span><a href="http://www.osgeo.org/" style="color:rgb(0,118,161);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:12px;outline-style:none!important">OSGeo</a><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,37,35);font-size:12px">, </span><a href="http://boundlessgeo.com/" style="color:rgb(0,118,161);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:12px;outline-style:none!important">Boundless</a><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,37,35);font-size:12px">, </span><a href="http://www.vividsolutions.com/" style="color:rgb(0,118,161);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:12px;outline-style:none!important">Vivid Solutions</a><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,37,35);font-size:12px">, </span><a href="http://www.how2map.com/" style="color:rgb(0,118,161);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:12px;outline-style:none!important">How 2 Map</a><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,37,35);font-size:12px">, </span><a href="https://www.sjwater.com/" style="color:rgb(0,118,161);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:12px;outline-style:none!important">San Jose Water Company</a><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,37,35);font-size:12px">, </span><a href="http://transient.nz/" style="color:rgb(0,118,161);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:12px;outline-style:none!important">Transient</a><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,37,35);font-size:12px">, </span><a href="http://www.geobeyond.it/" style="color:rgb(0,118,161);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:12px;outline-style:none!important">Geobeyond</a><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,37,35);font-size:12px"> (with in-kind sponsors GeoSolutions, CCRi, Astun Technology and Voyager).</span></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">--</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The GeoServer Team</font></div></div>