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+title: GeoNode 2.8
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+        <h1>GeoNode 2.8 Released</h1>
+        <article class="article1">
+              <img src="/static/img/GeoNode-2.6-Released.png" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""/>
+          <p>
+            The GeoNode dev team is proud to announce the release of GeoNode 2.8 stable!
+          </p>
+          <p>GeoNode 2.8 ships a lot of new features:
+            <ul>
+              <li>Group Moderation and Resources Pubblication workflow</li>
+              <li>SLD Upload for Layers</li>
+              <li>Thumbnails Upload for Documents</li>
+              <li>Vectorial Layers Download Filter</li>
+              <li>Enhanced WMS capabilities</li>
+              <li>Improved Metadata Editor Wizard</li>
+              <li>Improved Remote Services package</li>
+              <li>Monitoring Plugin for Administrators</li>
+              <li>Async Upload and Notifications with External Broker</li>
+			  <li>Unoconv Renderer for Document Thumbnails</li>
+			  <li>Improvements to Docker and Docker Compose scripts for geonode and geonode-project deployments</li>
+			  <li>Improvements to the integration with QGIS Server</li>
+			  <li>Updated to Django 1.8+</li>
+              <li>Updated to GeoServer 2.12.2</li>
+              <li>Updated PyCSW to 2.0.2</li>
+              <li>Updated Notifications to Pinax 4.1.0</li>
+              <li>Updated Celery to 4.1.0</li>
+              <li>Updated OAuth2 Security Framework to 2.1.0</li>
+            </ul>
+            </p>
+            <p>and a lot of fixes and code refactoring from 2.6 Release.
+          </p>
+            <h2>Don't upgrade before backing up your data!</h2>
+            <p>There are a lot of internal changes from version 2.6 to 2.8</p>
+            <p>The recommended upgrade path is to set up a new server from scratch and migrate the data to it.</p>
+
+            <h2>Installation Instructions</h2>
+
+              <p>The automatic installer is available for Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial.</p>
+
+              <p>
+                <code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:geonode/stable</code><br>
+                <code>sudo apt-get update</code><br>
+                <code>sudo apt-get install geonode</code>
+              </p>
+
+              <p>Then set the IP address and create a superuser.</p>
+
+              <code>geonode createsuperuser</code><br>
+              <code>sudo geonode-updateip 127.0.0.1</code>
+
+              <p>For further information, please take a look at <a href="http://docs.geonode.org/en/latest/tutorials/install_and_admin/quick_install.html#ubuntu-standard-deployment">Quick GeoNode Install</a></p>
+
+              <p>The manual installation is possible for any OS following this guide <a href="http://docs.geonode.org/en/master/tutorials/install_and_admin/geonode_install/index.html#geonode-install">GeoNode Install</a></p>
+
+              <p>After your GeoNode is set up, don't forget to read the <a href="http://docs.geonode.org/en/latest/#for-administrators" target="_blank">admin docs</a> to personalize it and tweak it for better performance.</p>
+
+              <h2>Getting support</h2>
+
+              <p>You can report any issues or feature requests in our <a href="https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode/issues">Issue Tracker in Github</a>.</p>
+
+              <p>And a big thank you to all the developers and contributors for the big effort. See you in our <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/geonode-users/" target="_blank">Users mailing list</a></p>
+
+            </article>
+          </div>
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