[OSGeo-Discuss] GeoTools 8.1 Released

[Jody Garnett]

The Geotools community is pleased to announce the release of Geotools 8.1 to  sourceforge downloads (http://sourceforge.net/projects/geotools/files/GeoTools%208%20Releases/8.1/):
geotools-8.1-bin.zip (http://sourceforge.net/projects/geotools/files/GeoTools%208%20Releases/8.1/geotools-8.1-bin.zip/download)
geotools-8.1-doc.zip (http://sourceforge.net/projects/geotools/files/GeoTools%208%20Releases/8.1/geotools-8.1-doc.zip/download)
geotools-8.1-userguide.zip (http://sourceforge.net/projects/geotools/files/GeoTools%208%20Releases/8.1/geotools-8.1-userguide.zip/download)
geotools-8.1-project.zip (http://sourceforge.net/projects/geotools/files/GeoTools%208%20Releases/8.1/geotools-8.1-project.zip/download)
GeoTools 8.1 Release Notes (https://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10270&version=18691)

This release is also deployed to our OSGeo Maven Repository (http://download.osgeo.org/webdav/geotools/org/geotools/). For more information on setting up your project with Maven, see the Quickstart  (http://docs.geotools.org/stable/userguide/tutorial/quickstart/index.html) included in the user guide.

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

Enjoy,
The GeoTools Community
http://geotools.org (http://geotools.org/)
About GeoTools 8.1
Geotools 8.1 is a stable release made in conjunction with GeoServer 2.2-RC3 (http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/GeoServer+2.2-RC3) and uDig 1.3.2 (http://udig-news.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/udig-132-released.html).

This is a bug fix release with a small number of improvements:
[GEOT-4126 (https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOT-4126)] App-schema: Enable specifying row number in getting sourceExpressionw for denormalised rows
[GEOT-4216 (https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOT-4216)] Add SplitPolygon, Polygonize processes
[GEOT-4217 (https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOT-4217)] H2DataStoreFactory does not create a manageable data source
[GEOT-4236 (https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOT-4236)] Allow external PRJ to override internal CRS definition
For additional information (and 11 bug fixes) please see the GeoTools 8.1 Release Notes (https://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10270&version=18691).

About The GeoTools 8 Series
The GeoTools 8 is the stable release series recommended for production systems.

New features available in Geotools 8:
Great new user guide (http://docs.geotools.org/latest/userguide/) with live codes examples, tutorials and build instructions
Build improvements with support for Update to Java 6 (http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Java+6) and support for either Maven 2 or Maven 3 (http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Allow+build+with+Maven+2+or+Maven+3)
Filter 2.0 Support consisting of
New ILIKE statement (http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/New+ILIKE+statement)
Support Multi-Valued Attributes in Filter Comparison Operators (http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Support+Multi-Valued+Attributes+in+Filter+Comparison+Operators)
Temporal Filters (http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Temporal+Filters)
Describe Function with FunctionName (http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Describe+Function+with+FunctionName)
Detailed Argument and Return Info for FunctionName (http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Function+lookup+using+qualified+Name)
ResourceId support for versioned data (http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/ResourceId)


Add support for joins to the WFS protocol (http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Join+Support)
Function lookup using qualified Name (http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Function+lookup+using+qualified+Name)
Separate MapContext from MapViewport (http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/MapContext+Refactor) allowing multiple tiles to use the same map definition
For more information please review the GeoTools 8 change control proposals (http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/8.x)

For those migrating from GeoTools 2.7, upgrade instructions are available (http://docs.geotools.org/latest/userguide/welcome/upgrade.html). No additional GeoTools 2.7.x releases are scheduled. 
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