Release Notes Release date: 2008/11/24 This release adds support for GeoJSON output, building with PostgreSQL 8.4, improves documentation quality and output aesthetics, adds function-level SQL documentation, and improves performance for some spatial predicates (point-in-polygon tests). Bug fixes include removal of crashers in handling circular strings for many functions, some memory leaks removed, a linear referencing failure for measures on vertices, and more. See the NEWS file for details. Release date: 2008/04/12 This release fixes bugs shp2pgsql, adds enhancements to SVG and KML support, adds a ST_SimplifyPreserveTopology function, makes the build more sensitive to GEOS versions, and fixes a handful of severe but rare failure cases. Release date: 2007/12/01 This release fixes bugs in ST_EndPoint() and ST_Envelope, improves support for JDBC building and OS/X, and adds better support for GML output with ST_AsGML(), including GML3 output. Release date: 2007/08/13 This release fixes some oversights in the previous release around version numbering, documentation, and tagging. Release date: 2007/08/09 This release provides performance enhancements to the relational functions, adds new relational functions and begins the migration of our function names to the SQL-MM convention, using the spatial type (SP) prefix. JDBC: Added Hibernate Dialect (thanks to Norman Barker) Added ST_Covers and ST_CoveredBy relational functions. Description and justification of these functions can be found at http://lin-ear-th-inking.blogspot.com/2007/06/subtleties-of-ogc-covers-spatial.html Added ST_DWithin relational function. Added cached and indexed point-in-polygon short-circuits for the functions ST_Contains, ST_Intersects, ST_Within and ST_Disjoint Added inline index support for relational functions (except ST_Disjoint) Extended curved geometry support into the geometry accessor and some processing functions Began migration of functions to the SQL-MM naming convention; using a spatial type (ST) prefix. Added initial support for PostgreSQL 8.3 Release date: 2007/01/11 This release provides bug fixes in PostgreSQL 8.2 support and some small performance enhancements. Fixed point-in-polygon shortcut bug in Within(). Fixed PostgreSQL 8.2 NULL handling for indexes. Updated RPM spec files. Added short-circuit for Transform() in no-op case. JDBC: Fixed JTS handling for multi-dimensional geometries (thanks to Thomas Marti for hint and partial patch). Additionally, now JavaDoc is compiled and packaged. Fixed classpath problems with GCJ. Fixed pgjdbc 8.2 compatibility, losing support for jdk 1.3 and older. Release date: 2006/12/08 This release provides type definitions along with serialization/deserialization capabilities for SQL-MM defined curved geometries, as well as performance enhancements. Added curved geometry type support for serialization/deserialization Added point-in-polygon shortcircuit to the Contains and Within functions to improve performance for these cases. Release date: 2006/11/02 This is a bugfix release, in particular fixing a critical error with GEOS interface in 64bit systems. Includes an updated of the SRS parameters and an improvement in reprojections (take Z in consideration). Upgrade is encouraged. If you are upgrading from release 1.0.3 or later follow the soft upgrade procedure. If you are upgrading from a release between 1.0.0RC6 and 1.0.2 (inclusive) and really want a live upgrade read the upgrade section of the 1.0.3 release notes chapter. Upgrade from any release prior to 1.0.0RC6 requires an hard upgrade. fixed CAPI change that broke 64-bit platforms loader/dumper: fixed regression tests and usage output Fixed setSRID() bug in JDBC, thanks to Thomas Marti use Z ordinate in reprojections spatial_ref_sys.sql updated to EPSG 6.11.1 Simplified Version.config infrastructure to use a single pack of version variables for everything. Include the Version.config in loader/dumper USAGE messages Replace hand-made, fragile JDBC version parser with Properties Release date: 2006/10/13 This is an bugfix release, including a critical segfault on win32. Upgrade is encouraged. If you are upgrading from release 1.0.3 or later follow the soft upgrade procedure. If you are upgrading from a release between 1.0.0RC6 and 1.0.2 (inclusive) and really want a live upgrade read the upgrade section of the 1.0.3 release notes chapter. Upgrade from any release prior to 1.0.0RC6 requires an hard upgrade. Fixed MingW link error that was causing pgsql2shp to segfault on Win32 when compiled for PostgreSQL 8.2 fixed nullpointer Exception in Geometry.equals() method in Java Added EJB3Spatial.odt to fulfill the GPL requirement of distributing the "preferred form of modification" Removed obsolete synchronization from JDBC Jts code. Updated heavily outdated README files for shp2pgsql/pgsql2shp by merging them with the manpages. Fixed version tag in jdbc code that still said "1.1.3" in the "1.1.4" release. Added -S option for non-multi geometries to shp2pgsql Release date: 2006/09/27 This is an bugfix release including some improvements in the Java interface. Upgrade is encouraged. If you are upgrading from release 1.0.3 or later follow the soft upgrade procedure. If you are upgrading from a release between 1.0.0RC6 and 1.0.2 (inclusive) and really want a live upgrade read the upgrade section of the 1.0.3 release notes chapter. Upgrade from any release prior to 1.0.0RC6 requires an hard upgrade. Fixed support for PostgreSQL 8.2 Fixed bug in collect() function discarding SRID of input Added SRID match check in MakeBox2d and MakeBox3d Fixed regress tests to pass with GEOS-3.0.0 Improved pgsql2shp run concurrency. reworked JTS support to reflect new upstream JTS developers' attitude to SRID handling. Simplifies code and drops build depend on GNU trove. Added EJB2 support generously donated by the "Geodetix s.r.l. Company" http://www.geodetix.it/ Added EJB3 tutorial / examples donated by Norman Barker <nbarker@ittvis.com> Reorganized java directory layout a little. Release date: 2006/06/30 This is an bugfix release including also some new functionalities (most notably long transaction support) and portability enhancements. Upgrade is encouraged. If you are upgrading from release 1.0.3 or later follow the soft upgrade procedure. If you are upgrading from a release between 1.0.0RC6 and 1.0.2 (inclusive) and really want a live upgrade read the upgrade section of the 1.0.3 release notes chapter. Upgrade from any release prior to 1.0.0RC6 requires an hard upgrade. BUGFIX in distance(poly,poly) giving wrong results. BUGFIX in pgsql2shp successful return code. BUGFIX in shp2pgsql handling of MultiLine WKT. BUGFIX in affine() failing to update bounding box. WKT parser: forbidden construction of multigeometries with EMPTY elements (still supported for GEOMETRYCOLLECTION). NEW Long Transactions support. NEW DumpRings() function. NEW AsHEXEWKB(geom, XDR|NDR) function. Improved regression tests: MultiPoint and scientific ordinates Fixed some minor bugs in jdbc code Added proper accessor functions for all fields in preparation of making those fields private later NEW regress test support for loader/dumper. Added --with-proj-libdir and --with-geos-libdir configure switches. Support for build Tru64 build. Use Jade for generating documentation. Don't link pgsql2shp to more libs then required. Initial support for PostgreSQL 8.2. Release date: 2006/03/30 This is an bugfix release including some new functions and portability enhancements. Upgrade is encouraged. If you are upgrading from release 1.0.3 or later follow the soft upgrade procedure. If you are upgrading from a release between 1.0.0RC6 and 1.0.2 (inclusive) and really want a live upgrade read the upgrade section of the 1.0.3 release notes chapter. Upgrade from any release prior to 1.0.0RC6 requires an hard upgrade. BUGFIX in SnapToGrid() computation of output bounding box BUGFIX in EnforceRHR() jdbc2 SRID handling fixes in JTS code Fixed support for 64bit archs Regress tests can now be run *before* postgis installation New affine() matrix transformation functions New rotate{,X,Y,Z}() function Old translating and scaling functions now use affine() internally Embedded access control in estimated_extent() for builds against pgsql >= 8.0.0 More portable ./configure script Changed ./run_test script to have more sane default behaviour Release date: 2006/01/23 This is an important Bugfix release, upgrade is highly recommended. Previous version contained a bug in postgis_restore.pl preventing hard upgrade procedure to complete and a bug in GEOS-2.2+ connector preventing GeometryCollection objects to be used in topological operations. If you are upgrading from release 1.0.3 or later follow the soft upgrade procedure. If you are upgrading from a release between 1.0.0RC6 and 1.0.2 (inclusive) and really want a live upgrade read the upgrade section of the 1.0.3 release notes chapter. Upgrade from any release prior to 1.0.0RC6 requires an hard upgrade. Fixed a premature exit in postgis_restore.pl BUGFIX in geometrycollection handling of GEOS-CAPI connector Solaris 2.7 and MingW support improvements BUGFIX in line_locate_point() Fixed handling of postgresql paths BUGFIX in line_substring() Added support for localized cluster in regress tester New Z and M interpolation in line_substring() New Z and M interpolation in line_interpolate_point() added NumInteriorRing() alias due to OpenGIS ambiguity Release date: 2005/12/21 This is a Minor release, containing many improvements and new things. Most notably: build procedure greatly simplified; transform() performance drastically improved; more stable GEOS connectivity (CAPI support); lots of new functions; draft topology support. It is highly recommended that you upgrade to GEOS-2.2.x before installing PostGIS, this will ensure future GEOS upgrades won't require a rebuild of the PostGIS library. This release includes code from Mark Cave Ayland for caching of proj4 objects. Markus Schaber added many improvements in his JDBC2 code. Alex Bodnaru helped with PostgreSQL source dependency relief and provided Debian specfiles. Michael Fuhr tested new things on Solaris arch. David Techer and Gerald Fenoy helped testing GEOS C-API connector. Hartmut Tschauner provided code for the azimuth() function. Devrim GUNDUZ provided RPM specfiles. Carl Anderson helped with the new area building functions. See the credits section for more names. If you are upgrading from release 1.0.3 or later you DO NOT need a dump/reload. Simply sourcing the new lwpostgis_upgrade.sql script in all your existing databases will work. See the soft upgrade chapter for more information. If you are upgrading from a release between 1.0.0RC6 and 1.0.2 (inclusive) and really want a live upgrade read the upgrade section of the 1.0.3 release notes chapter. Upgrade from any release prior to 1.0.0RC6 requires an hard upgrade. scale() and transscale() companion methods to translate() line_substring() line_locate_point() M(point) LineMerge(geometry) shift_longitude(geometry) azimuth(geometry) locate_along_measure(geometry, float8) locate_between_measures(geometry, float8, float8) SnapToGrid by point offset (up to 4d support) BuildArea(any_geometry) OGC BdPolyFromText(linestring_wkt, srid) OGC BdMPolyFromText(linestring_wkt, srid) RemovePoint(linestring, offset) ReplacePoint(linestring, offset, point) Fixed memory leak in polygonize() Fixed bug in lwgeom_as_anytype cast functions Fixed USE_GEOS, USE_PROJ and USE_STATS elements of postgis_version() output to always reflect library state. SnapToGrid doesn't discard higher dimensions Changed Z() function to return NULL if requested dimension is not available Much faster transform() function, caching proj4 objects Removed automatic call to fix_geometry_columns() in AddGeometryColumns() and update_geometry_stats() Makefile improvements JTS support improvements Improved regression test system Basic consistency check method for geometry collections Support for (Hex)(E)wkb Autoprobing DriverWrapper for HexWKB / EWKT switching fix compile problems in ValueSetter for ancient jdk releases. fix EWKT constructors to accept SRID=4711; representation added preliminary read-only support for java2d geometries Full autoconf-based configuration, with PostgreSQL source dependency relief GEOS C-API support (2.2.0 and higher) Initial support for topology modelling Debian and RPM specfiles New lwpostgis_upgrade.sql script JTS support improvements Stricter mapping between DBF and SQL integer and string attributes Wider and cleaner regression test suite old jdbc code removed from release obsoleted direct use of postgis_proc_upgrade.pl scripts version unified with release version Release date: 2005/12/06 Contains a few bug fixes and improvements. If you are upgrading from release 1.0.3 or later you DO NOT need a dump/reload. If you are upgrading from a release between 1.0.0RC6 and 1.0.2 (inclusive) and really want a live upgrade read the upgrade section of the 1.0.3 release notes chapter. Upgrade from any release prior to 1.0.0RC6 requires an hard upgrade. Fixed palloc(0) call in collection deserializer (only gives problem with --enable-cassert) Fixed bbox cache handling bugs Fixed geom_accum(NULL, NULL) segfault Fixed segfault in addPoint() Fixed short-allocation in lwcollection_clone() Fixed bug in segmentize() Fixed bbox computation of SnapToGrid output Initial support for postgresql 8.2 Added missing SRID mismatch checks in GEOS ops Release date: 2005/11/25 Contains memory-alignment fixes in the library, a segfault fix in loader's handling of UTF8 attributes and a few improvements and cleanups. Return code of shp2pgsql changed from previous releases to conform to unix standards (return 0 on success). If you are upgrading from release 1.0.3 or later you DO NOT need a dump/reload. If you are upgrading from a release between 1.0.0RC6 and 1.0.2 (inclusive) and really want a live upgrade read the upgrade section of the 1.0.3 release notes chapter. Upgrade from any release prior to 1.0.0RC6 requires an hard upgrade. Fixed memory alignment problems Fixed computation of null values fraction in analyzer Fixed a small bug in the getPoint4d_p() low-level function Speedup of serializer functions Fixed a bug in force_3dm(), force_3dz() and force_4d() Fixed return code of shp2pgsql Fixed back-compatibility issue in loader (load of null shapefiles) Fixed handling of trailing dots in dbf numerical attributes Segfault fix in shp2pgsql (utf8 encoding) Schema aware postgis_proc_upgrade.pl, support for pgsql 7.2+ New "Reporting Bugs" chapter in manual Release date: 2005/09/09 Contains important bug fixes and a few improvements. In particular, it fixes a memory leak preventing successful build of GiST indexes for large spatial tables. If you are upgrading from release 1.0.3 you DO NOT need a dump/reload. If you are upgrading from a release between 1.0.0RC6 and 1.0.2 (inclusive) and really want a live upgrade read the upgrade section of the 1.0.3 release notes chapter. Upgrade from any release prior to 1.0.0RC6 requires an hard upgrade. Memory leak plugged in GiST indexing Segfault fix in transform() handling of proj4 errors Fixed some proj4 texts in spatial_ref_sys (missing +proj) Loader: fixed string functions usage, reworked NULL objects check, fixed segfault on MULTILINESTRING input. Fixed bug in MakeLine dimension handling Fixed bug in translate() corrupting output bounding box Documentation improvements More robust selectivity estimator Minor speedup in distance() Minor cleanups GiST indexing cleanup Looser syntax acceptance in box3d parser Release date: 2005/08/08 Contains some bug fixes - including a severe one affecting correctness of stored geometries - and a few improvements. Due to a bug in a bounding box computation routine, the upgrade procedure requires special attention, as bounding boxes cached in the database could be incorrect. An hard upgrade procedure (dump/reload) will force recomputation of all bounding boxes (not included in dumps). This is required if upgrading from releases prior to 1.0.0RC6. If you are upgrading from versions 1.0.0RC6 or up, this release includes a perl script (utils/rebuild_bbox_caches.pl) to force recomputation of geometries' bounding boxes and invoke all operations required to propagate eventual changes in them (geometry statistics update, reindexing). Invoke the script after a make install (run with no args for syntax help). Optionally run utils/postgis_proc_upgrade.pl to refresh postgis procedures and functions signatures (see Soft upgrade). Severe bugfix in lwgeom's 2d bounding box computation Bugfix in WKT (-w) POINT handling in loader Bugfix in dumper on 64bit machines Bugfix in dumper handling of user-defined queries Bugfix in create_undef.pl script Small performance improvement in canonical input function Minor cleanups in loader Support for multibyte field names in loader Improvement in the postgis_restore.pl script New rebuild_bbox_caches.pl util script Release date: 2005/07/04 Contains a few bug fixes and improvements. If you are upgrading from release 1.0.0RC6 or up you DO NOT need a dump/reload. Upgrading from older releases requires a dump/reload. See the upgrading chapter for more informations. Fault tolerant btree ops Memory leak plugged in pg_error Rtree index fix Cleaner build scripts (avoided mix of CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS) New index creation capabilities in loader (-I switch) Initial support for postgresql 8.1dev Release date: 2005/05/24 Contains a few bug fixes and some improvements. If you are upgrading from release 1.0.0RC6 or up you DO NOT need a dump/reload. Upgrading from older releases requires a dump/reload. See the upgrading chapter for more informations. BUGFIX in 3d computation of length_spheroid() BUGFIX in join selectivity estimator BUGFIX in shp2pgsql escape functions better support for concurrent postgis in multiple schemas documentation fixes jdbc2: compile with "-target 1.2 -source 1.2" by default NEW -k switch for pgsql2shp NEW support for custom createdb options in postgis_restore.pl BUGFIX in pgsql2shp attribute names unicity enforcement BUGFIX in Paris projections definitions postgis_restore.pl cleanups Release date: 2005/04/19 Final 1.0.0 release. Contains a few bug fixes, some improvements in the loader (most notably support for older postgis versions), and more docs. If you are upgrading from release 1.0.0RC6 you DO NOT need a dump/reload. Upgrading from any other precedent release requires a dump/reload. See the upgrading chapter for more informations. BUGFIX in transform() releasing random memory address BUGFIX in force_3dm() allocating less memory then required BUGFIX in join selectivity estimator (defaults, leaks, tuplecount, sd) BUGFIX in shp2pgsql escape of values starting with tab or single-quote NEW manual pages for loader/dumper NEW shp2pgsql support for old (HWGEOM) postgis versions NEW -p (prepare) flag for shp2pgsql NEW manual chapter about OGC compliancy enforcement NEW autoconf support for JTS lib BUGFIX in estimator testers (support for LWGEOM and schema parsing) Release date: 2005/03/30 Sixth release candidate for 1.0.0. Contains a few bug fixes and cleanups. You need a dump/reload to upgrade from precedent releases. See the upgrading chapter for more informations. BUGFIX in multi() early return [when noop] from multi() dropped {x,y}{min,max}(box2d) functions BUGFIX in postgis_restore.pl scrip BUGFIX in dumper's 64bit support Release date: 2005/03/25 Fifth release candidate for 1.0.0. Contains a few bug fixes and a improvements. If you are upgrading from release 1.0.0RC4 you DO NOT need a dump/reload. Upgrading from any other precedent release requires a dump/reload. See the upgrading chapter for more informations. BUGFIX (segfaulting) in box3d computation (yes, another!). BUGFIX (segfaulting) in estimated_extent(). Small build scripts and utilities refinements. Additional performance tips documented. Release date: 2005/03/18 Fourth release candidate for 1.0.0. Contains bug fixes and a few improvements. You need a dump/reload to upgrade from precedent releases. See the upgrading chapter for more informations. BUGFIX (segfaulting) in geom_accum(). BUGFIX in 64bit architectures support. BUGFIX in box3d computation function with collections. NEW subselects support in selectivity estimator. Early return from force_collection. Consistency check fix in SnapToGrid(). Box2d output changed back to 15 significant digits. NEW distance_sphere() function. Changed get_proj4_from_srid implementation to use PL/PGSQL instead of SQL. BUGFIX in loader and dumper handling of MultiLine shapes BUGFIX in loader, skipping all but first hole of polygons. jdbc2: code cleanups, Makefile improvements FLEX and YACC variables set *after* pgsql Makefile.global is included and only if the pgsql *stripped* version evaluates to the empty string Added already generated parser in release Build scripts refinements improved version handling, central Version.config improvements in postgis_restore.pl Release date: 2005/02/24 Third release candidate for 1.0.0. Contains many bug fixes and improvements. You need a dump/reload to upgrade from precedent releases. See the upgrading chapter for more informations. BUGFIX in transform(): missing SRID, better error handling. BUGFIX in memory alignment handling BUGFIX in force_collection() causing mapserver connector failures on simple (single) geometry types. BUGFIX in GeometryFromText() missing to add a bbox cache. reduced precision of box2d output. prefixed DEBUG macros with PGIS_ to avoid clash with pgsql one plugged a leak in GEOS2POSTGIS converter Reduced memory usage by early releasing query-context palloced one. BUGFIX in 72 index bindings. BUGFIX in probe_geometry_columns() to work with PG72 and support multiple geometry columns in a single table NEW bool::text cast Some functions made IMMUTABLE from STABLE, for performance improvement. jdbc2: small patches, box2d/3d tests, revised docs and license. jdbc2: bug fix and testcase in for pgjdbc 8.0 type autoregistration jdbc2: Removed use of jdk1.4 only features to enable build with older jdk releases. jdbc2: Added support for building against pg72jdbc2.jar jdbc2: updated and cleaned makefile jdbc2: added BETA support for jts geometry classes jdbc2: Skip known-to-fail tests against older PostGIS servers. jdbc2: Fixed handling of measured geometries in EWKT. new performance tips chapter in manual documentation updates: pgsql72 requirement, lwpostgis.sql few changes in autoconf BUILDDATE extraction made more portable fixed spatial_ref_sys.sql to avoid vacuuming the whole database. spatial_ref_sys: changed Paris entries to match the ones distributed with 0.x. Release date: 2005/01/26 Second release candidate for 1.0.0 containing bug fixes and a few improvements. You need a dump/reload to upgrade from precedent releases. See the upgrading chapter for more informations. BUGFIX in pointarray box3d computation BUGFIX in distance_spheroid definition BUGFIX in transform() missing to update bbox cache NEW jdbc driver (jdbc2) GEOMETRYCOLLECTION(EMPTY) syntax support for backward compatibility Faster binary outputs Stricter OGC WKB/WKT constructors More correct STABLE, IMMUTABLE, STRICT uses in lwpostgis.sql stricter OGC WKB/WKT constructors Faster and more robust loader (both i18n and not) Initial autoconf script Release date: 2005/01/13 This is the first candidate of a major postgis release, with internal storage of postgis types redesigned to be smaller and faster on indexed queries. You need a dump/reload to upgrade from precedent releases. See the upgrading chapter for more informations. Faster canonical input parsing. Lossless canonical output. EWKB Canonical binary IO with PG>73. Support for up to 4d coordinates, providing lossless shapefile->postgis->shapefile conversion. New function: UpdateGeometrySRID(), AsGML(), SnapToGrid(), ForceRHR(), estimated_extent(), accum(). Vertical positioning indexed operators. JOIN selectivity function. More geometry constructors / editors. PostGIS extension API. UTF8 support in loader.