[OSGeo-Announce] Geotools 8.0 Released

[Frank Warmerdam]

The Geotools community is pleased to announce the availability of
Geotools 8.0 for download on sourceforge:

 * http://sourceforge.net/projects/geotools/files/GeoTools%208.0%20Releases/8.0/geotools-8.0-bin.zip/download
 * http://sourceforge.net/projects/geotools/files/GeoTools%208.0%20Releases/8.0/geotools-8.0-doc.zip/download
 * http://sourceforge.net/projects/geotools/files/GeoTools%208.0%20Releases/8.0/geotools-8.0-userguide.zip/download
 * http://sourceforge.net/projects/geotools/files/GeoTools%208.0%20Releases/8.0/geotools-8.0-project.zip/download

If you are using Maven, this release is deployed to our OSGeo Maven Repository:

For more information on setting up your project with Maven, see the
Quickstart (included in the user guide documentation pack above).

  http://docs.geotools.org/latest/userguide/tutorial/quickstart/index.html

Geotools 8.0 is a stable release made in conjunction with GeoServer
2.2-RC2 and GeoWebCache 1.3-RC4. Currently there are no additional
updates to 2.7.x planned.

Geotools 8.0 comes feature packed compared to its 2.7.x releases.
Highlights include:
 * Function lookup using qualified Name
 * Update to Java 6
 * Add support for joins to the WFS protocol
 * New ILIKE statement
 * Support Multi-Valued Attributes in Filter Comparison Operators
 * Temporal Filters
 * Allow build with Maven 2 or Maven 3
 * Describe Function with FunctionName
 * Detailed Argument and Return Info for FunctionName
 * Introduction for the use of ResourceId
 * Sphinx generated user guide with live codes examples, tutorials and
build instructions
 * MapContext refactor

More information can be found by checking out the proposals made for
this release here.

  http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/8.x

For those migrating from GeoTools 2.7, additional instructions are
available here.

  http://docs.geotools.org/latest/userguide/welcome/upgrade.html

We would like to take the opportunity to thank all the developers,
users and contributor that have helped to make this release possible.

Enjoy,
The GeoTools Community
http://geotools.org