The GeoTools team is pleased to announce the second release candidate for the 2.1 edition.
This release, and with the switch to the 2.0 version of GeoAPI completed, only fixes to bugs lie between here and the final 2.1 release.
If you are developing aginst the 2.0 branch then now is a good time to start thinking about switching to 2.1 as all new (and thus experimental features) are being done on the 2.2 branch with only bug fixes and optimizations scheduled for the 2.1 branch.
For more information please see the 2.1.RC1 download page.
The 2.1.RC1 jars are also now available from http://dist.geotools.org which can be used directly as a remote meven repository