[postgis-devel] PostGIS 2.4.0rc2 released

[Regina Obe]

The PostGIS development team is pleased to announce the release of PostGIS
2.4.0rc2.
Best served with [PostgreSQL 10RC1 
(https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/index.html)

and   pgRouting 2.5.0 :
https://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting/releases/tag/v2.5.0

See the full list of changes in the
https://git.osgeo.org/gogs/postgis/postgis/raw/2.4.0rc2/NEWS

* Source:  http://download.osgeo.org/postgis/source/postgis-2.4.0rc2.tar.gz
* html docs: http://download.osgeo.org/postgis/docs/doc-html-2.4.0rc2.tar.gz
(this version includes Japanese, German, Portugese and Korean single html
files)
* pdf: http://download.osgeo.org/postgis/docs/postgis-2.4.0rc2.pdf
* epub: http://download.osgeo.org/postgis/docs/postgis-2.4.0rc2.epub


These files will install help comments in your database in chosen language
* pgsql help files for non-english languages: http://postgis.net/stuff/
pgsql-help-2.4-ja.tar.gz, pgsql-help-2.4-de.tar.gz,
pgsql-help-2.4-br.tar.gz, pgsql-help-2.4-ko_KR.tar.gz

**Changes since PostGIS 2.4.0rc1 release**

- Numerous fixes to ST_AsMVT, ST_AsGeoBuf
- ST_AsTWKB speed and memory performance enhancements
- ST_RepeatedPoints speed improvements
- ST_ConcaveHull bug fix


* ChangeLog:
https://git.osgeo.org/gogs/postgis/postgis/raw/2.4.0rc2/ChangeLog


If you are upgrading from an existing PostGIS install, make sure after
installing PostGIS 2.4.0rc2 binaries to do.

ALTER EXTENSION postgis UPDATE;

-- if you have additional postgishy extensions below upgrade them too

ALTER EXTENSION postgis_sfcgal UPDATE;
ALTER EXTENSION postgis_topology UPDATE;
ALTER EXTENSION postgis_tiger_geocoder UPDATE;

--pgRouting 2.5.0 is imminent
ALTER EXTENSION pgrouting UPDATE; 


View all closed tickets for 2.4.0rc2.
 
http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/query?status=closed&groupdesc=1&group=priority
&milestone=PostGIS+2.4.0&order=priority

Love,
PostGIS Development Team