GeoMesa 1.2.4 includes 20+ improvements and bug fixes.

Highlights

GeoMesa Accumulo Runtime Jar is no longer required for ingest

• The GeoMesa distributed runtime jar was required in GeoMesa 1.2.3 before ingest could occur; this release addresses that limitation.

Pre-computed statistics & Query Planning

• GeoMesa's pre-computed stat writing has been updated.
  • Stats writing is handled per Datastore.  Calling DataStore.dispose will manage those resources appropriately.
  • Stats are written in a slightly better format.  
• UniqueProcess WPS leverages distributed stats computation.
  

Multi-Level Attribute Visibility

• Draft/first-pass per-attribute visibility controls.
• Attributes within a simple feature can have different visibility levels

Other Notable Changes

• Data SFT/Converters In Tools
  • Converter library can apply feature visibility
  • Updated the TDrive download script.
• Bugs Fixes
  • Various documentation and build improvements.
• GeoMesa Spark

• • Improvement to passing SimpleFeatureType configuration between worker nodes.

Upgrading

• GeoMesa 1.2.4 supports upgrade in place from versions 1.1.0.rc.7 through 1.2.3
• Shutdown the geoserver and upgrade the distributed runtime in accumulo as well as the geomesa jars in the webserver