GeoTools 12.3 changelog

This file is a temporary workaround as our issue tracker is currently unavailable. The issues marked have been resolved.

• GEOT-4853 Reprojection Color Banding Issue
• GEOT-4873 Provide useful error message in GeoTiffReader when path cannot be read.
• GEOT-4877 Adding null checks
• GEOT-4885 Validity of linear rings is ensured by a call to CoordinateSequences.ensureValidRing() before construction
• GEOT-4992 fixing maven profile to skip image comparison tests
• GEOT-4993 MeasureConverter generates an odd empty ProductUnit when no unit is specified
• GEOT-4998 add additional ROI check after scaling the image
• GEOT-5003 fixing softValueHashMap import
• GEOT-5004 ExpandToRGB option is not handled by ImageMosaicReader
• GEOT-5006 ProjectionHandler should not intersect Geometries with wrong GeometryType
• GEOT-5010 Expose a method to dispose the MultithreadedHttpClient
• GEOT-5011 Invalid double-semicolon on import declarations
• GEOT-5021 In readGeometryTaggedText in WKTReader2, made case for "POINT" case insensitive; Added a simple test case for case insensitivity in WKTReader2Test;
• GEOT-5024 Warp/affine reduction might cause differences in output due to bugs in JAI warp
• GEOT-5031 Supporting more time units in NetCDF time axis
• GEOT-5032 Hatch fill with size in uom plus extreme zoom out leads to rendering exceptions
• GEOT-5033 Rotation does not happen around specified AnchorPoint
• GEOT-5034 AffineProcess ignores TranslateY parameter
• GEOT-5038 Allow warp-affine reduction in advanced projection handling
• GEOT-5041 ProjectionHandler fails with empty GeometryCollection
• GEOT-5042 Failure in JDBCDataStore trying to join two virtual tables
• GEOT-5053 DuplicatingStyleVisitor does not duplicate FeatureTypeStyleImpl completely
• GEOT-5056 Mosaic issue when reprojecting a GridCoverage
• GEOT-5057 WMS cascading reader can leak native memory and bring to OOM
• GEOT-5063 Crop operation fails to render ROI correctly in openJDK7
• GEOT-5068 ECQL cannot parse a quoted attribute comparison, e.g., "a"="b"
• GEOT-5071 GeoTiffReader unable to parse CRS definition with undefined unit of measure definition
• GEOT-5074 Issue in advanced projection handling for geometries crossing over the opposite end of a lambert conf conic
• GEOT-5076 Make ProjectionHanlder valid area cutting more robust against topology exceptions
• GEOS-6934 Changed the (E)CQL filter-to-string so that "!=" becomes "<>" in agreement with the spec.