Day 1 Quality Assurance

Thanks to the foss4g and WhereCampPDX for

Automated Testing with CITE Team Engine

Andrea and Justin have lead the charge updating the GeoServer CITE tests (see Cite Sprint).

The goals are initially modest: enable developers (other than Justin) to setup and run CITE tests.

Justin is working on updating our “easy to use” CITE test harness build, while the others are hitting the latest version of the CITE tests and checking both ends, tests and GeoServer, for errors (and finding issues on both sides): Andrea Aime is working WCS tests, Mauro Bartolomeoli on the WFS ones, Jared Erickson and Brad Hards on the WMS ones.

GeoServer Manual Testing with 2.6 Nightly

Our plea to test 2.6-RC1 was not incredibly successful, so we are in for a bit of manual testing:

• 2.6-beta released <– contains our “help please” test request

• 2.6-x Nightly Build <– update: fixed download link for nightly releases

Thanks: Cristiane Andrioli, Flavio Conde, Ivan Martinez

Random fixes:

• Update link for nightly release (Jody)

• Nightly build is running again (Justin)

• Documentation for weather symbols, custom WKT symbols, bulk custom WKT geometry

• Testing of marlin, install instructions, package as geoserver extensions (Chris Marx, Ian Turton)

• Testing Oracle+Curved test (Ian Turton)

GeoServer Day 2

If you would like to join us tomorrow:

• Sunday, September 14th: Boundless is arranging facilities at nedspace from 10am-4pm.

The GeoServer team is happy to account the 2.6-RC1 release, now available for download. This release contains a number of good improvements and bug fixes since the 2.6-beta release. See the change log for more details and check out the 2.6-beta announcement for more about what’s new in the 2.6 series.

Download the release candidate now and help us by reporting any problems in the bug tracker or to the mailing list.

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About GeoServer 2.6

Articles and resources for GeoServer 2.6 series:

• Raster Views in GeoServer via the CoverageView concept (GeoSolutions)

• Advanced Raster Projection in GeoServer (GeoSolutions)

• Supporting Wind Barbs In GeoServer and GeoTools (GeoSolutions)

• GeoServer now supports Vector Footprints for ImageMosaic (GeoSolutions)

The GeoServer team is pleased to announce the final maintenance release of the GeoServer 2.4 serieis.

You can download GeoServer 2.4.8 from our new website:

• GeoServer 2.4.8 download page

The GeoServer 2.4.8 Release Notes detail a small number of changes in this final maintenance release:

• Performance: Avoid full namespace scan for GetFeature requests

• WPS fixes including a new PagedUnique process

• Fix for REST management of SLD files

• Fix for working with JBoss and Oracle via JNDI

• This release is made in conjunction with GeoTools 10.8 (see also GeoTools 10.8 Release Notes)

We trust you have enjoyed GeoServer 2.4. All users are encouraged to take opportunity to migrate to GeoServer 2.5.

Do you use geoscience or geospatial information in your research? Do you struggle to access data from across Australia from Government and research organisations? Do you spend too much time dealing with datasets or trying to find them rather than doing research? If you use geoscience information and would like to know about new methods for seamless data access available from across Australia, then we would like to invite you to attend the:

AuScope Grid Roadshow 2014

9-11 September 2014

Perth, Sydney, and Adelaide

AuScope Grid Roadshow 2014 will cover open source geospatial technologies including GeoServer and QGIS. There will also be a Developer Day on 12 September where developers have a chance to collaborate with others including AuScope developers to discuss solutions to problems using these technologies.

RSVP by 1 September. Please extend this invitation to others who might be interested in attending.

Back in March we had a Save the Date post for FOSS4G 2014 in Portland. Check your travel plans include participating in the Code Sprint at the end of the conference.

The code sprint is an opportunity for the team to get together and work on “tough problems without funding”. For GeoServer we have two candidates:

1. Update to a recent version of Wicket to improve browser compatibility

2. Update CITE Conformance Tests

GeoServer is extending the code sprint to include:

• Saturday, September 13th: FOSS4G is providing facilities at WhereCampPDX.

• Sunday, September 14th: Boundless is arranging facilities at nedspace from 10am-4pm.

To attend add your name to OSGeo wiki page and we will look forward to seeing you in Portland!

Thanks to Mike Pumphrey for arranging the venue for the Sunday Sprint.