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Smart City Expo World Congress 2026: open source foundations for resilient cities

Blog, News ‐ Posted on 11.11.2026 by Enrico Usai

Dear Reader, We are back from Barcelona, where Smart City Expo World Congress 2026 took place from 3 to 5 November 2026 at Fira Barcelona Gran Via. This year's theme was "Urban Solutions, Real Impact", and it set the tone for three intense days. GeoSolutions was there as an exhibitor in the Italian Pavilion (Hall 2, Stand C161). We spent the event meeting clients, partners and many new organisations we had never met before. In this post we share what we heard from them, and what we think it means for the cities planning their next geospatial platform. What we...

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FOSS4G North America 2026 in Sacramento, GeoSolutions sponsored break

FOSS4G North America 2026 in Sacramento: our presentations

Blog, News ‐ Posted on 10.11.2026 by simone giannecchini

Dear Reader, We are back from FOSS4G North America 2026, held in Sacramento, California, from November 2 to 4, 2026, and we want to share what we presented and what we saw. GeoSolutions was there with Simone Giannecchini and Andrea Aime for the whole conference, at our table in the exhibit area and in the session rooms for our four talks in the Technical track. GeoSolutions supported the event as a Bronze sponsor and also sponsored the Tuesday afternoon break. Below you will find the slides of all four talks, embedded directly from Google Slides, plus a short video with...

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GeoSolutions engineering brings FIPS compatibility to GeoServer 3

Blog, News ‐ Posted on 04.11.2026 by simone giannecchini

On October 19, 2026 the GeoServer project announced three releases: 3.0.2, 2.28.6 and 2.27.7. For most deployments these are maintenance and security updates. For organizations that must run their geospatial infrastructure under formal cryptographic requirements, 3.0.2 carries something more: a new FIPS community module, developed by GeoSolutions, that lets GeoServer run on top of a FIPS 140-3 validated cryptographic module. In this post we look at what the module enables, the engineering behind it, and what teams should plan before adopting it. What FIPS compatibility enables FIPS 140-3 is the United States government standard for cryptographic modules, and a hard...

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PHP2Shell and NGINX: what it means for MapStore, GeoServer and GeoNode

PHP2Shell: what it means for MapStore, GeoServer and GeoNode users

Blog, News ‐ Posted on 23.10.2026 by simone giannecchini

On 21 October 2026 the PHP project released fixes for two critical vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, now known as PHP2Shell. They allow unauthenticated remote code execution on web servers running PHP. Exploitation attempts were observed even before public disclosure. The UK NCSC has issued an alert asking organisations to find and patch every PHP installation, and to take offline what they cannot fix. Since then we have been receiving questions from organisations running our open source products. Here is the short answer, and what we suggest you check. Are MapStore, GeoServer and GeoNode affected? No since none of them uses...

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MapStore Release 2026.02

MapStore 2026.02.00 Release

Blog ‐ Posted on 22.10.2026 by Maria Banti

Here is a closer look at the highlights of the new series 2026.02 of MapStore, our flagship Open Source WebGIS product. On GitHub it is possible to consult the full list of new features, enhancements and fixes we have provided in version 2026.02.00. You can try it right away on the MapStore demo. We would like to thank all contributors who made this release possible, in particular Municipality of Genoa, TotalEnergies, Open Groupe, University of Naples, KfW and Deutsche Bahn for their valuable contributions (the full list is available at the v2026.02.00 release page in Github). The 2026.02.00 version introduces a...

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