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Release Notes
The features being introduced in 2024 are all part of an initiative to supercharge online data access.
- Updated software stack, including Debian 12, Postgresql 15, Apache Tomcat 10 (Java 17), and GeoServer 2.25.
A serious incompatibility between GeoServer and Tomcat 10 was resolved.
- Ability to stream data to another LIVE Services node (local or remote) using SSHFS.
Large data bundles generated at the back-end appear directly on GeoServer's mass storage device (SSD).
- Optional additional Tomcat instance(s) for development and testing, or load-balancing in production.
A significant GeoServer upgrade was implemented without impacting existing users.
- Use of the GeoPackage format to distribute PostgreSQL data.
You can download complete datasets as GeoPackages from the website.
Or you can perform ad hoc data retrieval from the same GeoPackages via web services.
- Basic Authentication has been replaced by Key Authentication in the GeoServer.
Accessing a secured resource requires an 'authkey', which is simply a UUID.
GeoPackages for download are password protected using an authkey.
Web service request urls must contain an authkey parameter.
Here's a reminder of some of the achievements in 2023.
- Updated software stack, including Debian 11, Postgresql 13 / PostGIS 3.1, and GeoServer 2.22.
- All Python 2 programs converted to Python 3.
- Managed SSL Certificates, using getssl and the DNS-01 challenge.
- The OpenLayers JavaScript brought further up-to-date (now on 6.15).
Here's a reminder of some of the achievements in 2021/22.
- Ready-to-go boot medium, delivered over the internet to a stick near you. Tightened live-booting security.
- Updated software stack, including Debian 10, Postgresql 11, Apache Tomcat 9 (Java 11), GeoServer 2.18, and OpenLayers 5.3.
- Local and remote database access (OmniDB).
- End-to-end encryption outside the LAN.
- Optional encrypted fileserver.
- Support for UEFI booting.
- GeoPackage support.
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