SIS 1.6 Release notes

• Release date: 2026-01-31
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• Requirement: Java 11
• EPSG version: 12.047

This release contains a fix for security issue CVE-2025-68280. The vulnerability impacted the following services: reading of GeoTIFF files having the GEO_METADATA tag defined by the Defense Geospatial Information Working Group (DGIWG), parsing of ISO 19115 metadata in XML format, parsing of Coordinate Reference Systems defined in the GML format, parsing of files in GPS Exchange Format (GPX).

This release contains also an upgrade of EPSG geodetic dataset from version 12.026 to version 12.047, together with various bug fixes improving performance and stability.

Incompatible changes

The following changes in Apache SIS 1.6 are incompatibles with the previous release (SIS 1.5):

• CoordinateOperationContext is not longer Serializable.
• Elements deprecated in SIS 1.5 with the forRemoval attribute were removed in SIS 1.6.

Noticeable changes

New Features

• SIS-622 — Support mathematical operations in filters

Improvements

• SIS-620 — Use TIFF date/time as image temporal coordinate

Bug fixes

• SIS-621 — ST_Transform does nothing when the CRS is declared on the attribute type

Tasks

• SIS-624 — Upgrade EPSG dataset from 12.026 to 12.047