The GeoServer team is happy to announce the release of GeoServer 2.6.1. Download bundles are provided (zip, war, dmg and exe) along with documentation and extensions.

GeoServer 2.6.1 is the next the stable release of GeoServer and is recommended for production deployment. Thanks to everyone taking part, submitting fixes and new functionality:

Fix for slow rendering of maps with lots of layers coming from a spatial database, reported by numerous users

Improvements in rendering labels over transparent maps

Fix for rendering tiled raster data, it could occasionally miss portions of the data

Fixes for WFS 2.0 joins

Better memory management when HTTP gzip-ping large amounts of GML/CSV/JSON data

Multidimensional WCS 2.0 outputs (NetCDF downloads) now support subsetting in CRS other than WGS84

An option to disable JAI native warp, which can cause some instability when reprojecting certain raster data sets

Some improvements in the GeoPackage outputs (still a community module, available via nightly builds)

Check the release notes for more details

This release is made in conjunction with GeoTools 12.1

Thanks to Andrea (GeoSolutions) for this release

About GeoServer 2.6

Articles and resources for GeoServer 2.6 series: