GeoMesa 1.2.4 Release Notes

Jul 19, 2016

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