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GeoServer Blog by Justin Deoliveira on 10/26/09

It has been a long time coming but it is finally here. GeoServer 2.0
has been officially released and is available for download. The 2.0
release marks a major milestone for the GeoServer project. A special
thanks to all the developers who worked hard for this release, all the
users who contributed bug reports, and for those who provided feedback
by testing out the 2.0 release candidates.

So what is new in 2.0? The first new feature that people will notice is
a completely new web administration interface. Based on the Wicket
framework the new user interface provides a much more integrated and
streamlined application for configuring GeoServer. Wicket makes
developing ajax enabled applications trivial by doing all the hard work
for you.



One of the powerful features of Wicket for the developer is
extensibility. Wicket allows one to plug-in components dynamically.
This means that developers can now easily write plug-ins and extensions
for the GeoServer UI. And some have already done so. Francesco Izzi and
the developers from the geoSDI project have contributed a plug-in for
configuring the GeoServer security sub system. Special thanks for the
great contribution.



The 2.0 release also hails the home coming of the “complex features”
branch and true support for application schemas. Led by Ben
Caradoc-Davies and Rini Angreani, developers from CSIRO have made this
functionality available in the core of GeoServer. Special thanks to
them and to AuScope for funding the work. Check out the documentation
for more information about getting started with application schemas.

New features has not been the only focus of 2.0. Much work has also
gone into scalability and performance in order to ensure that GeoServer
continues to improve not only in terms of new features, but also that
it continues to get faster.

Much of this work came in preparation for the WMS Shootout at FOSS4G in
Sydney this year. Great thanks goes out to Andrea Aime for not only
representing GeoServer in this benchmarking exercise, but also for the
countless number of hours he has poured into improving GeoServer
performance and robustness.

As with any release many minor features and bug fixes have gone into
2.0. Be sure to check out the GeoServer Past Present Future talk given
at FOSS4G that provides an overview of what else has gone on this year
in preparation for 2.0.

Download 2.0 now and try it out. Please help us to continue to improve
GeoServer by reporting any issues you encounter on the mailing list and
bug tracker.

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