GeoServer Enterprise 2021.5 Release Notes
GeoCat is pleased to present our latest distribution of GeoServer Enterprise.
Overview
GeoServer Enterprise 2021.5 provides support for publishing geospatial data using open standards.
This distribution is made available to GeoCat customers:
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GeoServer Enterprise Standard distribution provides a web archive (or docker image) of GeoServer bundled with popular extensions backed by GeoCat long-term support
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GeoServer Enterprise Premium offers a custom distribution with your selection of extensions backed by GeoCat extended support.
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GeoCat Live provides a hosted GeoServer environment
GeoServer Enterprise 2021.5 is a recommended upgrade for all our customers and is compatible with GeoCat Bridge for both ArcGIS Desktop and QGIS Desktop.
General
GeoServer Enterprise 2021.5 release notes:
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Offers our GeoServer Enterprise Premium customers “predefined war” service with a ready to use war including your selection of supported GeoServer extensions.
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GeoCat theme with clean appearance.
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Built-in web-resource, ysld and control-flow extensions
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GeoServer Enterprise 2021 is proudly open source with the latest GeoServer 2.20, GeoWebCache 1.20, and GeoTools 26 technologies.
Detailed change log:
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GeoServer release notes changelog
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GeoServer posts for 2.20-RC, 2.20.0, 2.20.1, 2.20.2, 2.20.3, 2.20.4 )
Security considerations:
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GeoCat recommends upgrading to take advantage of the latest security fixes
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Java JNDI Deserialization in GeoServer (CVE-2022-24818)
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ENTITY_RESOLUTION_ALLOWLIST system property providing greater protection from service side request forgery
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GeoCat respects the GeoServer responsible disclosure policy, contact us directly to discuss security vulnerabilities.
Known issues:
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GeoServer known issues for 2.20.4
GeoServer Enterprise Standard
Mapping:
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Add Styles support to LayerGroup
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Allow GetTimeSeries to have a maximum times limit separate than WMS max dimensions
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Fix: Layers and Layer Groups will now show an empty element if no abstract is provided.
During the introduction of internationalization support for services a default abstract was accidentally provided.
