We are pleased to announce the release of GeoServer 2.16.2 with downloads (war|zip), documentation (html|pdf) and extensions.

This is a stable release recommended for production systems.

Improvements and Fixes

This release includes a number of improvements, including:

Support for vector custom dimensions (in addition to time and elevation)

Allow limiting the number of concurrent jobs in the importer extension

Default style descriptions wording improvement (as they are visible in capabilities documents)

Fixes included in this release:

The REST API fixes regarding datastore and feature type handling (see notes for details)

Fixed 100% CPU usage at idle on data directories with tens of thousands of layers

Don’t delay startup on an unresponsive cascaded WMS server

Make sure to truncate fully tile caches with parameters

Make GWC caching kick in also when using local workspaces along with non qualified layer names

And various others!

For more information check the 2.16.2 release notes.

Community Updates

For developers building from source, our community modules are a great place to collaborate on functionality and improvements.

About GeoServer 2.16

Features, presentations and reference material on the 2.16 series: