Live GIS Disc Press Release 66

= OSGeo-Live 9.5 Released =

WORLDWIDE. -- 23 March 2016

The OSGeo Community has announced immediate availability of the OSGeo-Live reference distribution of geospatial open-source software, version 9.5. OSGeo-Live is available now as both 32-bit and 64-bit .iso images, as well as a 64-bit Virtual Machine (VM), ready to run. Once again, users across the globe can depend on OSGeo-Live, which includes overview and introductory examples for every major software package, translated into twelve languages.

“With two new applications added, twenty-two applications updated, all based upon eight years of continuous developments and refinements, we believe OSGeo-Live v9.5 to be our most stable, usable, and feature rich distribution to date,” said Angelos Tzotsos, OSGeo-Live build manager.

“We are pleased to be seeing steady increased adoption of OSGeo-Live from educational programs, complementing the already wide use at geospatial conferences and workshops,” said Cameron Shorter, Geospatial Programs Manager at LISASoft, Australia and OSGeo-Live contributing editor.

For more information, please visit our website live.osgeo.org

Release Highlights
New Applications:
 * Project Jupyter (formerly the IPython Notebook) with examples
 * istSOS - Sensor Observation Service
 * NASA World Wind - Desktop Virtual Globe

Application Updates:

Twenty-two geospatial programs have been updated to newer versions, including:


 * QGIS 2.14 LTR with more than one hundred new features added or improved since the last QGIS LTR release (version 2.8), sponsored by dozens of geospatial data providers, private sector companies and public sector governing bodies around the world.


 * MapServer 7.0 with major new features, including complex filtering being pushed to the database backends, labeling performance and the ability to render non-latin scripts. See the complete list of new features at http://mapserver.org/development/announce/7-0.html


 * Cesium JavaScript library for world-class 3D globes and maps


 * PostGIS 2.2 with optional SFCGAL geometry engine


 * GeoNetwork 3.0

Analytics and Geospatial Data Science:


 * R geostatistics


 * Python reference libraries including Iris, SciPy, PySAL, geoPandas

About OSGeo-Live
OSGeo-Live is a self-contained bootable USB flash drive, DVD and Virtual Machine, pre-installed with robust open source geospatial software, which can be trialled without installing any software.


 * Over 50 quality geospatial Open Source applications installed and pre-configured
 * Free world maps and sample datasets
 * Project Overview and step-by-step Quickstart for each application
 * Lightning presentation of all applications, along with speaker's script
 * Overviews of key OGC standards
 * Translations to multiple languages
 * Based upon the rock-solid Lubuntu 14.04 LTS GNU/Linux distribution, combined with the light-weight LXDE desktop interface for ease of use.

Homepage: http://live.osgeo.org

Download details: http://live.osgeo.org/en/download.html

Post release glitches collected here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc/Errata/9.5

Credits
More than 180 individuals have directly contributed to OSGeo-Live packaging, documenting and translating, and thousands have been involved in building the packaged software itself.

Developers, packagers, documenters and translators include:

Activity Workshop, Agustín Dí­ez, Aikaterini Kapsampeli, Alan Beccati, Alan Boudreault, Alessandro Furieri, Alexander Bruy, Alexander Kleshnin, Alexander Muriy, Alexandre Dube, Alexey Ardyakov, Alex Mandel, Amy Gao, Andrea Antonello, Andrea Yanza, Andrey Syrokomskiy, Andry Rustanto, Angelos Tzotsos, Anna Muñoz, Antonio Falciano, Antonio Santiago, Anton Novichikhin, Anton Patrushev, Argyros Argyridis, Ariel Núñez, Assumpció Termens, Astrid Emde, Balasubramaniam Natarajan, Barry Rowlingson, Benjamin Pross, Brian Hamlin, Bruno Binet, Bu Kun, Cameron Shorter, Christophe Tufféry, Christos Iossifidis, Cristhian Pin, Damian Wojsław, Dane Springmeyer, Daniel Kastl, Danilo Bretschneider, Daria Svidzinska, David Mateos, Denis Rykov, Diego González, Diego Migliavacca, Dimitar Misev, Dmitry Baryshnikov, Dominik Helle, Edgar Soldin, Eike Hinderk Jürrens, Elena Mezzini, Eric Lemoine, Erika Pillu, Estela Llorente, Etienne Delay, Etienne Dube, Evgeny Nikulin, Fabian Schindler, Fran Boon, François Prunayre, Frank Gasdorf, Frank Warmerdam, Friedjoff Trautwein, Gabriele Prestifilippo, Gavin Treadgold, Giuseppe Calamita, Gérald Fenoy, Grigory Rozhentsov, Guillaume Pasero, Guy Griffiths, Hamish Bowman, Haruyuki Seki, Henry Addo, Hernan Olivera, Hirofumi Hayashi, Howard Butler, Hyeyeong Choe, Ian Edwards, Ian Turton, Ilya Filippov, Jackie Ng, Jan Drewnak, Jane Lewis, Javier Rodrigo, Javier Sánchez, Jesús Gómez, Jim Klassen, Jing Wang, Jinsongdi Yu, Jody Garnett, Johan Van de Wauw, John Bryant, Jorge Arévalo, Jorge Sanz, José Antonio Canalejo, José Vicente Higón, Judit Mays, Klokan Petr Pridal, Ko Nagase, Kristof Lange, kuzkok, Lance McKee, Larry Shaffer, Lars Lingner, Luca Delucchi, Lucía Sanjaime, Mage Whopper, Manuel Grizonnet, Marc-André Barbeau, Marco Curreli, Marco Puppin, Marc Torres, Margherita Di Leo, Maria Vakalopoulou, Mario Andino, Mario Carrera, Mark Leslie, Markus Neteler, Massimo Di Stefano, Matteo De Stefano, Matthias Streulens, Mauricio Miranda, Mauricio Pazos, Maxim Dubinin, Michaël Michaud, Michael Owonibi, Micha Silver, Mike Adair, Milan P. Antonovic, Milena Nowotarska, M Iqnaul Haq Siregar, Nacho Varela, Nadiia Gorash, Name, Nathaniel V. Kelso, Ned Horning, Nicolas Roelandt, Nobusuke Iwasaki, Oliver Tonnhofer, Òscar Fonts, Otto Dassau, Pasquale Di Donato, Patric Hafner, Paul Meems, Pavel, Pedro-Juan Ferrer, Pirmin Kalberer, Raf Roset, Regina Obe, Ricardo Pinho, Roald de Wit, Roberta Fagandini, Roberto Antolin, Roberto Antolí­n, Robin Lovelace, Roger Veciana, Ruth Schoenbuchner, Samuel Mesa, Scott Penrose, Sergey Grachev, Sergey Popov, Sergio Baños, Simon Cropper, Simon Pigot, Stefan A. Tzeggai, Stefan Hansen, Stefan Steiniger, Stephan Meissl, Steve Lime, Takayuki Nuimura, Thierry Badard, Thomas Baschetti, Thomas Gratier, Tom Kralidis, Toshikazu Seto, Trevor Wekel, Valenty González, Vera, Victor Poughon, Xianfeng Song, Yoichi Kayama, Zhengfan Lin, Zoltan Siki

Sponsoring organisations

 * The Open Source Geospatial Foundation provides development & hosting infrastructure for OSGeo-Live and many of the included applications.
 * LISAsoft provides sustaining resources and staff toward management and packaging.
 * Information Center for the Environment (ICE) at the University of California, Davis provides hardware resources and development support.
 * Remote Sensing Laboratory at the National Technical University of Athens, provides hardware resources and development support.
 * The Debian GIS and UbuntuGIS teams provide and quality-assure many of the core packages.
 * Okeanos is kindly providing Virtual Machines for building the OSGeoLive iso images.