State of GeoServer - FOSS4G EU 2025

GeoServer is a web service for publishing your geospatial data using industry standards for vector, raster and mapping, as well as to process data, either in batch or on the fly.
GeoServer powers a number of open source projects like GeoNode and geOrchestra and it is widely used throughout the world by organizations to manage, disseminate and analyze data at scale.

This presentation provides an update on our community as well as reviews of the new and noteworthy features for the latest releases. In particular, we will showcase all the new features landed in the latest GeoServers.

Attend this talk for a cheerful update on what is happening with this popular OSGeo project, whether you are an expert user, a developer, or simply curious what GeoServer can do for you.

This presentation provides an update on our community as well as reviews of the new and noteworthy features for the latest releases. Attend this talk for a cheerful update on what is happening with this popular OSGeo project, whether you are an expert user, a developer, or simply curious what GeoServer can do for you.

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1. FOSS4G Europe 2025 at Mostar State of MapStore Tobia Di Pisa GeoSolutions 14th - 20th of July 2025 - Foss4g Europe
2. GeoSolutions - open-source experts • Software boutique building open-source geospatial products since 2006 • Delivering scalable, secure and interoperable solutions for public and private sectors • Products • Services Enterprise Support Services Deployment Subscription Professional Training Customized Solutions 14th - 20th of July 2025 - Foss4g Europe
3. Agenda • Introducing MapStore • MapStore at work • What’s new in MapStore • Ongoing works for MapStore in 2025 14th - 20th of July 2025 - Foss4g Europe
4. Introducing MapStore 14th - 20th of July 2025 - Foss4g Europe
5. What is MapStore? WebGIS to create and share maps, charts, dashboards and stories online Mobile first Responsive Pluggable Look & Feel Mapping engine agnostic OpenLayers|Leaflet|Cesium License is Simplified BSD Commercial friendly! Leveraging React ecosystem Consume data from many sources (OSM, Bing, WFS, CSW, WMS, WMTS…) 14th - 20th of July 2025 - Foss4g Europe
6. What is MapStore? Many use case scenarios are covered for achieving your mapping goals Works with of OGC standards to ensure good interoperability skills Easy to set up and configure Ready to use and easy to customize and extend Open Source project Compatible with the most common browsers Many features available out-of-the box 14th - 20th of July 2025 - Foss4g Europe
7. How can I use MapStore? 14th - 20th of July 2025 - Foss4g Europe As a Product As a Framework Use it as is and customize the look&feel You can build many different applications with its plugins and utilities (and by developing your own)
8. MapStore at work 14th - 20th of July 2025 - Foss4g Europe
9. MapStore at Work Map Viewer Flexible, highly modular viewer configurable for many different use case scenarios … 14th - 20th of July 2025 - Foss4g Europe Dashboards Create engaging dashboards combining different types of widgets to inspect and aggregate data
10. MapStore at Work GeoStories create inspiring and immersive stories by combining text, interactive maps and multimedia content (e.g. images, video or other third party content). 14th - 20th of July 2025 - Foss4g Europe Application Context Tool designed to build and configure different MapStore viewer configurations for the same MapStore installation through an advanced wizard
11. What’s new in MapStore 14th - 20th of July 2025 - Foss4g Europe
12. What’s new in MapStore What was released from the last FOSS4G EU? Two major series in the middle: 2024.02 Released in Oct 2024 (2 minor releases included) 2025.01 Released in June 2025 (next minor release expected for July, 2025) = Lots of new powerful updates! 14th - 20th of July 2025 - Foss4g Europe
13. What’s new in MapStore 2024.02 • Interoperability with ArcGIS servers: WMS endpoints and REST APIs Layer Legend Map Layer and support for a dedicated Catalog source type: • /arcgis/rest/services • /arcgis/rest/services/{name} /MapServer Identify and most of MS standard capabilities provided! … support for ImageServer available soon! Printing 14th - 20th of July 2025 - Foss4g Europe
14. What’s new in MapStore 2024.02 • Enhancing the pluggability of Street View tool including the Mapillary viewer for custom 360 imagery Support for standard Mapillary provider still in progress Available on both 2D and 3D! Cyclomedia Street Smart APIs also supported! 14th - 20th of July 2025 - Foss4g Europe
15. What’s new in MapStore 2024.02 • Support to identify responses in HTML format for WFS layers Working on top of gs-wfs-freemarker-plugin community module (requires Geoserver) Using the format defined for WMS also for WFS layers! 14th - 20th of July 2025 - Foss4g Europe
16. What’s new in MapStore 2024.02 • Improving the OpenID Connect (OIDC) support with a new client to enhance and generalize the existing support • Allowing at the same time the integration with other providers like Microsoft Entra 14th - 20th of July 2025 - Foss4g Europe
17. • MapStore Home Page layout completely reviewed and UX improved Filtering Resources Searching Resources Organizing Resources Browsing Resources Viewing Resources information Accessing customized catalog state What’s new in MapStore 2025.01 14th - 20th of July 2025 - Foss4g Europe
18. https://dev-mapstore.geosolutionsgroup.com/mapstore/?#/ ?q=Storm&f=map&f=context&f=favorite&filter%7Bgroup.in% 7D=geosolutions&filter%7Btag.in%7D=demo&filter%7Bcreati on.gte%7D=2021-03-02T00%3A00%3A00&filter%7Bcreation.lt e%7D=2025-06-13T23%3A59%3A59 • MapStore Home Page with many new filtering capabilities! • My resources • Free text • Groups • Application context • Tags • Date Period Filter state now in Catalog URL! What’s new in MapStore 2025.01 14th - 20th of July 2025 - Foss4g Europe
19. • MapStore Home Page with improved resource Details for a better UI/UX What’s new in MapStore 2025.01 14th - 20th of July 2025 - Foss4g Europe About Permissions Main info
20. Improved sorting options! Manage all resources together! Alternative catalog mode for improving the overall UX Better controls on resource items. Highly customizable also for downstream projects! • MapStore Home Page … for a better UX in managing contents! What’s new in MapStore 2025.01 14th - 20th of July 2025 - Foss4g Europe
21. • MapStore Layout and Look & Feel significantly reviewed to provide a better accessibility. Improved About management for the whole application Unified user Menus New Brand Navbar component What’s new in MapStore 2025.01 14th - 20th of July 2025 - Foss4g Europe
22. • MapStore Layout and Look & Feel … for a lighter theme Removed primary color from many components More space available with smaller side panels What’s new in MapStore 2025.01 14th - 20th of July 2025 - Foss4g Europe
23. Improved user feedback on modified resources Renewed confirmation dialog when leaving resources Improved UX with new confirmation dialog when closing the browser window • MapStore Layout and Look & Feel … for better notifications! What’s new in MapStore 2025.01 14th - 20th of July 2025 - Foss4g Europe
24. • MapStore 3D updates with new Terrain provider and Map settings https://docs.mapstore.geosolutionsgroup.com/en/v 2025.01.00/developer-guide/maps-configuration/#ce sium-ion-terrain-provider Light source option for 3D map New Cesium Ion Terrain provider What’s new in MapStore 2025.01 14th - 20th of July 2025 - Foss4g Europe
25. • MapStore Layer Legend update with new Dynamic and Interactive functions Working on top of GetLegendGraphic in JSON format and content dependent legend GeoServer capabilities (requires GeoServer) What’s new in MapStore 2025.01 14th - 20th of July 2025 - Foss4g Europe
26. • MapStore Printing update for an improved UX and a new function also available Option to exclude desired layers from the printed legend Printing preview map now disconnected from the underlying main map What’s new in MapStore 2025.01 14th - 20th of July 2025 - Foss4g Europe
27. • MapStore User Session update with an improved support and a finest control on session items • Different clear options map specific • Search services also supported • Attribute Table • Table of Contents and others plugins • Widgets • Catalog services What’s new in MapStore 2025.01 14th - 20th of July 2025 - Foss4g Europe
28. • MapStore MapViews update for an improved control of views layers with a more advanced TOC Ability to selectively disconnect layers from the main TOC Controls to sync with the main TOC More advanced TOC controls with embedded support for Terrains What’s new in MapStore 2025.01 14th - 20th of July 2025 - Foss4g Europe
29. • Various dependency updates and clean up. Consolidated dependency management and code clean up Reviewed and improved the overall application dependency management Various dependency updates for both FE and BE Extensive code clean up. Dead code and old packages removed What’s new in MapStore 2025.01 14th - 20th of July 2025 - Foss4g Europe
30. What’s new in MapStore 2025.01 Check out the new version from Github and enjoy the new functionalities released for MapStore 2025.01! The complete release notes are available on Github at: https://github.com/geosolutions-it/MapStore2/releases/tag/v 2025.01.00 14th - 20th of July 2025 - Foss4g Europe
31. Ongoing works for MapStore in 2025 14th - 20th of July 2025 - Foss4g Europe
32. Ongoing works for MapStore 2025.02 • Further enhancement for the overall project structure and the BE dependencies management GeoStore Http-Proxy Q4 https://github.com/geosolutions-it/MapStore2 https://github.com/geosolutions-it/geostore https://github.com/geosolutions-it/http-proxy 14th - 20th of July 2025 - Foss4g Europe
33. • Further updates for the MapStore’s theme and layout ◦ New default theme ◦ Possibility to switch to dark theme from user menu ◦ Further harmonization of buttons ◦ Further updates on dialogs and card items ◦ New font-family ◦ New project entry page ◦ Overall layout renew Expected for 2025/2026 Q4 Ongoing works for MapStore 2025.02 14th - 20th of July 2025 - Foss4g Europe
34. • New Terrain Switcher component for managing terrain layers from UI and switching between them Q4 Improving the current Background Switcher Ongoing works for MapStore 2025.02 14th - 20th of July 2025 - Foss4g Europe
35. • Enhancements for the GeoFence Rule Manager Q3 Filtering auth rules by IP address Requires GeoServer v2.27 and GeoFence v3.8.0 Managing auth rules by validity period automatically disabling them Ongoing works for MapStore 2025.02 14th - 20th of July 2025 - Foss4g Europe
36. • Managing Resource Permissions by IP address Ongoing works for MapStore 2025.02 14th - 20th of July 2025 - Foss4g Europe Q3
37. More Info - Online resources • Demo site: https://mapstore.geosolutionsgroup.com • User documentation: https://docs.mapstore.geosolutionsgroup.com/en/v2025.01.00/user-guide/ho me-page/ • Developers documentation: https://docs.mapstore.geosolutionsgroup.com/en/v2025.01.00/developer-guid e/requirements/ • GitHub Repo: https://github.com/geosolutions-it/MapStore2 • Youtube Videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLe2yzutVrnZ5tjYGYYcKmZzo_M9ku5I9X • Mailing Lists: https://groups.google.com/g/mapstore-users https://groups.google.com/g/mapstore-developers 14th - 20th of July 2025 - Foss4g Europe
38. That’s all folks! Questions? info@geosolutionsgroup.com 14th - 20th of July 2025 - Foss4g Europe