The GeoTools 2.4.0 release is available for download:

• http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/2.4.0

New for GeoTools 2.4:

• significant speedups in shapefile and postgis data rendering (and to a lesser measure to other vector data sources as well)
• many expressions improvements using converters to correctly handle a range of queries
• style interfaces now use geoapi filter (no more casting!)
• redirect to an alternate logging api
• datastore dispose
• make use of java connection pools (DBCP and the like)
• use a registered java DataSource for epsg database in a Java EE environment
• user guide; with a small section for 2.4.0
• iso geometry implementation available as a supported module
• community change proposal process has been adopted

For more information on these improvemets visit our web site:

• http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/2.4.x

Release Notes:

• http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10270&styleName=Html&version=13062

The GeoTools project has seen a lot of growth over the development of GeoTools 2.4. We have made several important changes to how the project is managed:

• we have introduced "unsupported" modules; allowing early access to community experiments (for a list of supported modules see http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=574856)
• we have adopted a formal change proposal system

For more information please visit:

• http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Upgrade+to+2.4
• http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS
• http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTDOC

Enjoy,
The GeoTools Community