<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); widows: 1;">The 2.1.6 release of PostGIS is <a href="http://download.osgeo.org/postgis/source/postgis-2.1.6.tar.gz" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 102, 204);">now available</a>.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); widows: 1;">The PostGIS development team is happy to release patch for PostGIS 2.1, the 2.1.6 release. As befits a patch release, the focus is on bugs, breakages, and performance issues. Users with large tables of points will want to priorize this patch, for substantial (~50%) disk space savings.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); widows: 1;"><a href="http://download.osgeo.org/postgis/source/postgis-2.1.6.tar.gz" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 102, 204);">http://download.osgeo.org/postgis/source/postgis-2.1.6.tar.gz</a></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); widows: 1;"><strong>Enhancements</strong></p><ul style="margin: 0px 1.5em 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.00119972229px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 18.0017986297607px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); widows: 1;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline;">#3000, Ensure edge splitting and healing algorithms use indexes</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline;">#3048, Speed up geometry simplification (J.Santana @ CartoDB)</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline;">#3050, Speep up geometry type reading (J.Santana @ CartoDB)</li></ul><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); widows: 1;"><strong>Bug Fixes</strong></p><ul style="margin: 0px 1.5em 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.00119972229px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 18.0017986297607px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); widows: 1;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline;">#2941, allow geography columns with SRID other than 4326</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline;">#3069, small objects getting inappropriately fluffed up w/ boxes</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline;">#3068, Have postgis_typmod_dims return NULL for unconstrained dims</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline;">#3061, Allow duplicate points in JSON, GML, GML ST_GeomFrom* functions</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline;">#3058, Fix ND-GiST picksplit method to split on the best plane</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline;">#3052, Make operators <-> and <#> available for PostgreSQL < 9.1</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline;">#3045, Fix dimensionality confusion in &&& operator</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline;">#3016, Allow unregistering layers of corrupted topologies</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline;">#3015, Avoid exceptions from TopologySummary</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline;">#3020, ST_AddBand out-db bug where height using width value</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline;">#3031, Allow restore of Geometry(Point) tables dumped with empties in them</li></ul><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); widows: 1;">View all <a href="http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/query?status=closed&groupdesc=1&group=priority&milestone=PostGIS+2.1.6&order=priority" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 102, 204);">closed tickets</a>.</p></div><br><div class="bloop_sign" id="bloop_sign_1426873499601766144">
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