The GeoServer project has announced the release of version 1.4.0. "The big push of this release is the transition of GeoServer's architecture to a more modular, programmer friendly environment based on Spring. From the user perspective there are many improvements for scalability and stability, along with many little fixes so that everything 'just works'. There is a new German translation of the Web admin tool, and improvements for output of Shapefiles, GML, PDFs, SVG, and Google Earth KML, to put control of the output in the hands of the user."