The popular open source geospatial data server GeoServer version 2.7 has been released earlier this week.

The new features highlighted in the announcement:

• Color composition and color blending
  • These are two new extensions to the rendering engine that allows for greater control over how overlapping layers in a map are merged together
• Relative time support in WMS/WCS
• WPS:
  • WPS clustering
  • WPS security
  • WPS limits
  • WPS dismiss
• CSS extension refresh
• Cascade WFS Stored Queries