Release notes
Bug
GEOS-8002 LegendGraphic does not display when using transformation functions (recode, interpolate, categorize)
GEOS-11823 Quality Degradation in Scanned Map Rendering (GeoServer 2.25.3 onward)
GEOS-11944 GetLegendGraphic Fails When Using RasterSymbolizer With Interval ColorMap And ENV variables
GEOS-11946 DirectRasterRenderer may fail on creating AlphaBand from ROI using Lookup
GEOS-11957 Cannot logout due remember-me cookie with oidc
Improvement
GEOS-11297 Escape WMS GetFeatureInfo HTML output by default
GEOS-11933 Upgrade codebase to Java 17 language features
GEOS-11934 Image processing tile cache: better logging and deeper cleanups
GEOS-11943 remove PDF generation of manual from build process
New Feature
GEOS-11949 Support MS Excel download from WPS-download
GEOS-11951 Add PMTiles DataStore community module for reading Protomaps vector tiles
Task
GEOS-11841 Use GeoTools Bill of Materials (BOM) to manage geotools dependency versions
GEOS-11848 Migrate use of JAITools to JAI-Ext
GEOS-11952 GeoServer 2.28.0 Release cleanup
GEOS-11956 Fix build server WfsCompatibilityTest failure (when testing against "local" GeoServer on port 8080)