GeoServer is an open source server that will allow you to connect your information to the Geospatial Web.
With GeoServer you can publish and edit data using open standards. Your information is made available in a large variety of formats as maps / images or actual geospatial data.
GeoServer's transactional capabilities offer robust support for shared editing. GeoServer can be used to connect from legacy databases to diverse clients.
The application comes with support for WFS-T and WMS open protocols from the OGC to produce JPEG, PNG, SVG, KML/KMZ, GML, PDF or Shapefiles.

What's New in This Release:
· the monitoring extension module just got promoted to official extension [GEOS-5538]
· the status page does not throw errors after catalog reloads anymore [GEOS-5371]
· one critical fix in the REST configuration of freemarker templates [GEOS-5533]
Minor bug fixes:
· [GEOS-5338] – Filter function IEEERemainder mishbehaves in SLD
· [GEOS-5537] – Tiling artifacts with RasterSymbolizer using bilinear interpolation (when oversampling raster)
· [GEOS-5551] – WFS 1.0 capabilities will NPE with misconfigured OGR and XSLT output formats
· [GEOS-5565] – workspace admin unable to create sql view
· [GEOS-5570] – QueryProcess fails if called with an OGC filter (either 1.0 or 1.1)
· [GEOS-5197] – Use the layer abstract as the GeoRSS channel description
· [GEOS-5561] – Missing i18n support for ReprojectPage
· [GEOS-5562] – Missing i18n support for WorkspaceEditPage
· [GEOS-5563] – slight mixed up order of Y-parameters in AffineTransformPanel
· Also, looking at the corresponding GeoTools release changelog we have the foll...