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GeoServer 1.4.0 Released

posted by Satri on Monday December 18, @10:14AM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the serve-the-world dept.
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The Earth is Square tells us GeoServer 1.4.0 has been released. From the blog: "The major changes for this release are: * Spring framework * Updated embedded Jetty * More KML styling * German translation * Name extensions for WMS .shp and .pds results * On-the-fly log level changing * KML reprojection " More on GeoServer: " GeoServer supports WFS-T and WMS open protocols from the OGC to produce JPEG, PNG, SVG, KML/KMZ, GML, PDF, Shapefiles and more. More information on specific features of GeoServer can be found here, and some samples of GeoServer in action are in the gallery." The GeoServer blog obviously covers the news.

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