The 2.4.0 release is the fourth minor release in the 2.x line. New features include:
- Upgrade to GeoTools 21 and GeoServer 2.15
- Spark support for Google Cloud Bigtable stores
- Feature expiration (time-to-live) for the Redis data store
- Support for renaming feature types
- Command-line tools for generic data stores (e.g. Postgis)
- Support for converting and ingesting Parquet files
- Distributed export through the command-line tools