This page is devoted to upcoming maintenance, version upgrades and cleanup activities (sometimes the results of incomplete Proposals).

The following projects have been taken from https://geoserver.org/behind+the+scenes/2024/01/03/roadmap.html. Please visit each project's wiki page to coordinate the activity.

• Migrate documentation to mkdocs <-- Needs ordinary users to review!
• Migrate to spring-framework-6
• Migrate to spring-security 6
• Remove spring-security-oauth plugin
• Remove spring-security-keycloak plugin
• Migrate to Jakarta Enterprise Edition
• Upgrade to Apache Wicket 10
• Upgrade to Java 17
• Migrate to ImageN 1.0

In addition to these projects, these users have volunteered to assist with testing. Lead developers, please feel free to call upon them as needed:

• Testing volunteers

Maintenance:

• Upgrade H2 1.x to 2.x
• Jakarta-EE

Quality assurance:

• Restore CITE Certification

Architecture and API:

• Consistent Event Notification

User experience:

• UI improvements - as discussed at 2016 code sprint

If you have capacity to work on any of the following we welcome the assistance. The GeoServer PSC has access to a small amount of funding via OSGeo and sponsorship to work on these activities.

• Update or replace Log4J 1 library
• Move build.geoserver.org to larger server

• Move docs from S3 to OSGeo

• CITE Test Upgrade - fork cite engine now that it is in github and work on certification

• Migrate to OSGeo Infrastructure

• Java 11 - will require replacement of service provider registry (as used in GeoTools)

  • See GSIP 171 for activity

• REST API Refresh - migrate to spring mvc, focus of 2017 code sprint

• Spring 4 Upgrade - required for Java 8 compatibility
• Upgrade to Java 8 - thanks Justin
• Wicket migration code sprint - see 2016 code sprint for details and sponsors
• Cleaning up File References - follow up to resource store api work