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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=844592818-24072009><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2 face=Arial>Mark,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=844592818-24072009><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2 face=Arial>We'll try to have windows binaries out by Monday and then the
stack installer/builder part probably week after. So those who
already installed and RC just need to overwrite their binaries. Nothing
technically has changed since most of the RC2->production were more on the
testing scripts.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=844592818-24072009><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2 face=Arial>Unfortunately Mark Cave-Ayland is on vacation and I think
since this is our first time doing it, we should wait for him before we push to
Stack Builder.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=844592818-24072009><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2 face=Arial>Oh by the way we just came back from OSCON and will be posting
our slides and data shortly which will showcase some of the speed improvements
in 1.4 and taking advantage of PostgreSQL 8.4 features. Should have those
posted sometime later today.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=844592818-24072009><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2 face=Arial>Thanks,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=844592818-24072009><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2 face=Arial>Regina</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><B>From:</B>
postgis-users-bounces@postgis.refractions.net
[mailto:postgis-users-bounces@postgis.refractions.net] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Mark
Vantzelfde<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, July 24, 2009 2:20 PM<BR><B>To:</B> PostGIS
Users Discussion<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [postgis-users] PostGIS 1.4.0
Released<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>Thank you!<BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Paul Ramsey <SPAN
dir=ltr><<A
href="mailto:pramsey@opengeo.org">pramsey@opengeo.org</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE
style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex"
class=gmail_quote>July 24, 2009<BR><BR>The PostGIS development team has, after
a long period of meditation<BR>and soul searching, released version 1.4.0 of
the spatial data<BR>extension for PostgreSQL.<BR><BR> <A
href="http://postgis.refractions.net/download/postgis-1.4.0.tar.gz"
target=_blank>http://postgis.refractions.net/download/postgis-1.4.0.tar.gz</A><BR><BR>This
new version of PostGIS includes substantial performance<BR>enhancements, more
detailed reference documentation, new output<BR>formats (GeoJSON) and an
improved internal testing system. PostGIS 1.4<BR>also supports the recent
PostgreSQL 8.4 release.<BR><BR>Thanks to everyone who helped by testing during
the release candidate process!<BR><BR>Your PostGIS Team<BR><BR>-- Detailed
PostGIS 1.4 Release Notes --<BR><BR> - As of the 1.4 release series, the
public API of PostGIS will not<BR> change during
minor releases.<BR><BR> - Compatibility<BR> - The versions below are
the *minimum* requirements for PostGIS 1.4<BR> - PostgreSQL 8.2 and
higher on all platforms<BR> - GEOS 3.0 and higher only<BR> - PROJ4
4.5 and higher only<BR><BR> - New Features<BR> - ST_Union() uses
high-speed cascaded union when compiled against<BR>
GEOS 3.1+ (Paul Ramsey)<BR> - ST_ContainsProperly() requires GEOS
3.1+<BR> - ST_Intersects(), ST_Contains(), ST_Within() use high-speed
cached<BR> prepared geometry against GEOS 3.1+ (Paul
Ramsey)<BR> - Vastly improved documentation and reference
manual<BR> (Regina Obe & Kevin
Neufeld)<BR> - Figures and diagram examples in the reference manual
(Kevin Neufeld)<BR> - ST_IsValidReason() returns readable explanations
for validity<BR> failures (Paul Ramsey)<BR> -
ST_GeoHash() returns a <A href="http://geohash.org"
target=_blank>geohash.org</A> signature for geometries<BR>
(Paul Ramsey)<BR> - GTK+ multi-platform GUI for shape file loading
(Paul Ramsey)<BR> - ST_LineCrossingDirection() returns crossing
directions (Paul Ramsey)<BR> - ST_LocateBetweenElevations() returns
sub-string based on Z-ordinate.<BR> (Paul
Ramsey)<BR> - Geometry parser returns explicit error message about
location of<BR> syntax errors (Mark
Cave-Ayland)<BR> - ST_AsGeoJSON() return JSON formatted<BR> -
Populate_Geometry_Columns() -- automatically add records to<BR>
geometry_columns for TABLES and VIEWS (Kevin Neufeld)<BR> -
ST_MinimumBoundingCircle() -- returns the smallest circle<BR>
polygon that can encompass a geometry (Bruce
Rindahl)<BR><BR> - Enhancements<BR> - Core geometry system moved
into independent library, liblwgeom.<BR> (Mark
Cave-Ayland)<BR> - New build system uses PostgreSQL "pgxs" build
bootstrapper.<BR> (Mark Cave-Ayland)<BR> -
Debugging framework formalized and simplified. (Mark Cave-Ayland)<BR> -
All build-time #defines generated at configure time and placed in<BR>
headers for easier cross-platform support (Mark
Cave-Ayland)<BR> - Logging framework formalized and simplified (Mark
Cave-Ayland)<BR> - Expanded and more stable support for
CIRCULARSTRING,<BR> COMPOUNDCURVE and CURVEPOLYGON,
better parsing,<BR> wider support in functions (Mark
Leslie & Mark Cave-Ayland)<BR> - Improved support for OpenSolaris
builds (Paul Ramsey)<BR> - Improved support for MSVC builds (Mateusz
Loskot)<BR> - Updated KML support (Olivier Courtin)<BR> - Unit
testing framework for liblwgeom (Paul Ramsey)<BR> - New testing framework
to comprehensively exercise every<BR> PostGIS function (Regine
Obe)<BR> - Performance improvements to all geometry aggregate<BR>
functions (Paul Ramsey)<BR> - Support for the upcoming PostgreSQL
8.4 (Mark Cave-Ayland,<BR> Talha Bin Rizwan)<BR> - Shp2pgsql
and pgsql2shp re-worked to depend on<BR> the common
parsing/unparsing code in liblwgeom (Mark Cave-Ayland)<BR> - Use of PDF
DbLatex to build PDF docs and preliminary<BR> instructions for
build (Jean David Techer)<BR> - Automated User documentation build
(PDF and HTML) and<BR> Developer Doxygen Documentation (Kevin
Neufeld)<BR> - Automated build of document images using
ImageMagick<BR> from WKT geometry text files (Kevin
Neufeld)<BR> - More attractive CSS for HTML documentation<BR>
(Dane Springmeyer)<BR> - Bug fixes<BR> - <A
href="http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/query?status=closed&milestone=postgis+1.4.0&order=priority"
target=_blank>http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/query?status=closed&milestone=postgis+1.4.0&order=priority</A><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>postgis-users
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