Release notes
Announcement: GeoTools 26-RC Release Candidate
Bug
GEOT-6982 Update Mongo DB driver to 4.0.6 to mitigate CVE-2021-20328
GEOT-6965 encoding a polygon as a multipolygon gives an unwanted duplicated srsname tag in polygon
GEOT-6962 Use glob for GeoPkg constraint_type when writing a range constraint
GEOT-6959 SimpleHttpClient does support proxy
GEOT-6949 Improve CropCoverage to retain ROI information in output coverage
GEOT-6944 Deadlock at org.geotools.xsd.XSD.getSchema
GEOT-6937 AppSchema JdbcMultipleValue will fill wrong values if targetColumn is a PK
GEOT-6921 GeoTools primary key finder always query the table gt_pk_metadata even if it doesn't exists
GEOT-6913 Correct join translation machinery to qualify fid filters with alias when generating SQL query
GEOT-6912 Special characters in shp file name are not correctly encoded
GEOT-6906 WFS DescribeFeatureType doesn't account for outputFormats defined globally
GEOT-6899 Resource (CPU/Heap) starvation building shapefile spatial index
GEOT-6894 WMTS fails when initial url contains query parameters
GEOT-6892 ExpressionDOMParser NullPointerException if setter for FilterFactory is invoked
GEOT-6889 Configuration of JNDI ends in exception at strange places
GEOT-6887 Bring GeoJsonWriter/GeoJsonReader on par with gt-geojson with handling of empty collections, arrays, lists, datetime and boolean
GEOT-6886 Raster to Vector rendering transformations with reprojection can generate incorrect images
GEOT-6883 Fix edge cases in the date time parser
GEOT-6881 GreaterThanEqualTo and LessThanEqualTo incorrectly marked as unsupported in WFS query
GEOT-6880 Rendering process fails if vendor option sortByGroup is used
GEOT-6876 JDBCDataStore.isFullBoundsQuery returns true for a query with a limit or startIndex
GEOT-6871 AppSchema, defining nested attribute with root attribute filter might return 0 on count
GEOT-6866 Upgrade FlatGeoBuf DataStore to flatgeobuf 3.16.4 with improvements to support box filter and read larger files
GEOT-6863 Datastores with Character parameters can't be reopened
GEOT-6860 SchemaCache doesn't follow redirect when downloading from HttpConnection
GEOT-6856 Replace new Collection method invocation via reflection with new ArrayList in ComplexAttributeImpl class
GEOT-6855 AppSchema JDBCMultipleValue might generate ambiguous query when ClientProperty is defined
GEOT-6854 AppSchema JDBCMultipleValue directive fails to encode ClientProperties if targetValue is not specified
GEOT-6848 Vendor options in RasterSymbolizer are not parsed
GEOT-6832 WFS-NG doesn't apply acrgis strategy for versions that are not 2.0.0
GEOT-6800 Certain shapefiles can still trigger exceptions when Z value present but no M value
GEOT-6783 Unsupported module gt-arcgisrest isn't activated by -Dall
GEOT-6709 Java 11: GeoTools fails with ExceptionInInitializerError caused by an InaccessibleObjectException trying to access tech.units.indriya internals
GEOT-6677 WMTS client code automatically uppercases key names in KVP requests which breaks non standard servers
GEOT-6517 WFS: possible memory leak when when parsing getFeatures() result
GEOT-6410 Conversion from boolean true/false in geoserver to SQL Server bit 0/1, is broken
GEOT-6172 Missing jars (units etc.) in geotools-20.0-bin.zip
GEOT-2972 Character set from CPG files
Improvement
GEOT-6980 Improve gt-geobuf's compatibility with mapbox/geobuf
GEOT-6974 Document gt-gml-geometry-streaming
GEOT-6973 Add gml:Surface parsing to gt-gml-geometry-streaming
GEOT-6947 GrowableInternationalString copy constructor not adding null Locale
GEOT-6923 Improvement to GrowableInternationalString ease of use and preserving insertion order
GEOT-6920 Make it easier to specify which transformation to use when selecting a coordinate system transform
GEOT-6918 Implement NowFunction
GEOT-6917 Add support for timeUnit on dateDifference function
GEOT-6915 Add method create in TileFactory
GEOT-6903 gml-geometry-streaming: Add support for curved polygons and Arcs with more than 3 control points
GEOT-6900 Shapefile quadtree build performance
GEOT-6896 Add support for GML 3.2 namespace to gml-geometry-streaming
GEOT-6895 Restrict the responsibilities of WMTSTileService
GEOT-6893 Add support for gml:Curve with gml:Arc segments to gml-geometry-streaming
GEOT-6891 GeoTIFF Writer should unwrap an outputStreamAdapter to get the underlying ImageOutputStream
GEOT-6890 Move StAX GML parser from wfs-ng to a new module
GEOT-6877 Upgrade to imageio-ext 1.3.6 (tiff 32 bit with deflate/lzw support)
GEOT-6870 Add vendor options support for Rule
GEOT-6864 Avoid use of underscore as identifier
GEOT-6861 Add support for Krovak North Orientated
GEOT-6859 Speed up geotools DbaseFileWriter.FieldFormatter.getFieldString(int size, String s)
GEOT-6846 MongoDB plugin refact FilterToMongo and FilterSplitter
GEOT-6840 Revert Object varargs change in SimpleFeature to help scala compatibility
GEOT-6839 Update Batik from 1.13 to 1.14
GEOT-6835 WFS-NG doesn't understand GML:MultiCurves
GEOT-6821 Update JDBC drivers: MySQL (to 8.0.24)
GEOT-5859 Upgrade httpclient from 3.1 to 4.5.13
New Feature
GEOT-6867 Add the possibility to prune Rule, Symbolizer, FeatureTypeStyle elements when rendering Maps or Legends
GEOT-6842 Adding WPS 2.0 support with EMF model and xml binding configuration
Sub-task
GEOT-6978 Upgrade Oracle JDBC driver (com.oracle.database.jdbc:ojdbc8) 19.11.0.0 ➜ 19.12.0.0
GEOT-6957 Upgrade Oracle JDBC driver (com.oracle.database.jdbc:ojdbc8) 19.10.0.0 ➜ 19.11.0.0
GEOT-6956 Upgrade MySQL JDBC driver (mysql:mysql-connector-java) 8.0.24 ➜ 8.0.26
GEOT-6955 Upgrade PostgreSQL JDBC driver (org.postgresql:postgresql) 42.2.19 ➜ 42.2.23
GEOT-6954 Upgrade MS SQL JDBC driver (com.microsoft.sqlserver:mssql-jdbc) 9.2.0.jre8 ➜ 9.4.0.jre8
GEOT-6953 Upgrade DB2 JDBC driver (com.ibm.db2:jcc) 11.5.5.0 ➜ 11.5.6.0
GEOT-6909 Breakdown 500+ line method RasterSymbolizerTest:contrastEnhancementMethods() into individual tests
Task
GEOT-6979 Remove the unsupporte module jdbc-ingres
GEOT-6975 Update dependencies of (unsupported) Elasticsearch plugin
GEOT-6972 Remove the unsupported module "georest"
GEOT-6971 Remove the unsupported module epsg-oracle
GEOT-6970 Remove the unsupported module imagemosaic-jdbc
GEOT-6969 Remove unsupported gtopo30 module
GEOT-6966 Update org.apache.solr:solr-solrj from 8.7.0 to 8.9.0
GEOT-6952 Upgrade JDBC drivers
GEOT-6943 Fix WMS online tests to use OnlineTestSupport and working servers
GEOT-6925 Set up PMD cognitive complexity checks, start cleaning up methods that are too complex (threshold of 160)
GEOT-6901 Use StandardCharsets when possible, add a PMD check to enfornce it
GEOT-6897 Upgrade PMD to version 6.34
GEOT-6882 Remove deprecated HTTPClient interfaces and classes
GEOT-6879 Bump commons-io from 2.6 to 2.10.0
GEOT-6878 Avoid unnecessary object wrapper creation, add a PMD rule to check it
GEOT-6844 Avoid C style array declarations, add Checkstyle check to disallow it
GEOT-6843 Use short arrays initializers, add PMD rule to enforce it
GEOT-6834 Replace references to the "master" branch by "main"
GEOT-6833 Add missing @OverRide annotations and set up a QA rule to enforce it
GEOT-6831 Add a PMD ruleset to avoid Exception#PrintStackTrace() usage
GEOT-6829 Remove dependency on xpp3, use the standard StAX API