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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Well they just released PostgreSQL 11 Beta4. I expect RC1 will follow.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>I heard they are planning for Mid-Late October.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Jody Garnett [mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, September 23, 2018 6:37 PM<br><b>To:</b> Regina Obe <lr@pcorp.us><br><b>Cc:</b> David Fetter <david@fetter.org>; PostGIS Development Discussion <postgis-devel@lists.osgeo.org>; PostGIS Users Discussion <postgis-users@lists.osgeo.org>; discuss@lists.osgeo.org; pgsql-announce@postgresql.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] PostGIS 2.5.0 released<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Congrats! When is PostgreSQL 11 expected?<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Sun, Sep 23, 2018 at 3:27 PM Regina Obe <<a href="mailto:lr@pcorp.us">lr@pcorp.us</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal>The PostGIS development team is pleased to release PostGIS 2.5.0.<br><br>Blog: <a href="http://postgis.net/2018/09/23/postgis-2.5.0/" target="_blank">http://postgis.net/2018/09/23/postgis-2.5.0/</a><br><br><br>Although this release will work for PostgreSQL 9.4 and above, <br>to take full advantage of<br>what PostGIS 2.5 offers, you should be running PostgreSQL 11beta4+ and GEOS<br>3.7.0.<br><br>Best served with PostgreSQL 11beta4+ and pgRouting 2.6.1<br><br>WARNING: If compiling with PostgreSQL+JIT, LLVM >= 6 is required<br>Supported PostgreSQL versions for this release are:<br>PostgreSQL 9.4 - PostgreSQL 12 (in development)<br>GEOS >= 3.5<br><br>Source: <a href="https://download.osgeo.org/postgis/source/postgis-2.5.0.tar.gz" target="_blank">https://download.osgeo.org/postgis/source/postgis-2.5.0.tar.gz</a><br><br>Documentation PDF: English:<br><a href="https://download.osgeo.org/postgis/docs/postgis-2.5.0.pdf" target="_blank">https://download.osgeo.org/postgis/docs/postgis-2.5.0.pdf</a><br><br>German:<br><a href="https://download.osgeo.org/postgis/docs/https:/postgis.net/stuff/postgis-2.5.0-de.pdf" target="_blank">https://download.osgeo.org/postgis/docs/https://postgis.net/stuff/postgis-2.<br>5.0-de.pdf</a><br><br>Html Documentation:<br><a href="https://download.osgeo.org/postgis/docs/doc-html-2.5.0.tar.gz" target="_blank">https://download.osgeo.org/postgis/docs/doc-html-2.5.0.tar.gz</a><br><br><br>pgsql help files for non-english languages: <br> German:<br><a href="https://download.osgeo.org/postgis/docs/pgsql-help-2.5-de.tar.gz" target="_blank">https://download.osgeo.org/postgis/docs/pgsql-help-2.5-de.tar.gz</a><br><br> Japanese:<br><a href="https://download.osgeo.org/postgis/docs/pgsql-help-2.5-ja.tar.gz" target="_blank">https://download.osgeo.org/postgis/docs/pgsql-help-2.5-ja.tar.gz</a><br><br> Korean:<br><a href="https://download.osgeo.org/postgis/docs/pgsql-help-2.5-kr.tar.gz" target="_blank">https://download.osgeo.org/postgis/docs/pgsql-help-2.5-kr.tar.gz</a><br><br> Portuguese:<br><a href="https://download.osgeo.org/postgis/docs/pgsql-help-2.5-br.tar.gz" target="_blank">https://download.osgeo.org/postgis/docs/pgsql-help-2.5-br.tar.gz</a> <br><br> Spanish:<br><a href="https://download.osgeo.org/postgis/docs/pgsql-help-2.5-es.tar.gz" target="_blank">https://download.osgeo.org/postgis/docs/pgsql-help-2.5-es.tar.gz</a><br><br><br>Change Log: <a href="https://svn.osgeo.org/postgis/tags/2.5.0/ChangeLog" target="_blank">https://svn.osgeo.org/postgis/tags/2.5.0/ChangeLog</a><br><br><br>**New Features**<br>* 1847, spgist 2d and 3d support for PG 11+<br> (Esteban Zimányi and Arthur Lesuisse from Université Libre de Bruxelles<br>(ULB),<br> Darafei Praliaskouski)<br>* 4056, ST_FilterByM (Nicklas Avén)<br>* 4050, ST_ChaikinSmoothing (Nicklas Avén)<br>* 3989, ST_Buffer single sided option (Stephen Knox)<br>* 3876, ST_Angle function (Rémi Cura)<br>* 3564, ST_LineInterpolatePoints (Dan Baston)<br>* 3896, PostGIS_Extensions_Upgrade() (Regina Obe)<br>* 3913, Upgrade when creating extension from unpackaged (Sandro Santilli)<br>* 2256, _postgis_index_extent() for extent from index (Paul Ramsey)<br>* 3176, Add ST_OrientedEnvelope (Dan Baston)<br>* 4029, Add ST_QuantizeCoordinates (Dan Baston)<br>* 4063, Optional false origin point for ST_Scale (Paul Ramsey)<br>* 4082, Add ST_BandFileSize and ST_BandFileTimestamp,<br> extend ST_BandMetadata (Even Rouault)<br>* 2597, Add ST_Grayscale (Bborie Park)<br>* 4007, Add ST_SetBandPath (Bborie Park)<br>* 4008, Add ST_SetBandIndex (Bborie Park)<br><br>**Breaking Changes**<br>* 4054, ST_SimplifyVW changed from > tolerance to >= tolerance<br>* 3885, version number removed from address_standardize lib file<br> (Regina Obe)<br>* 3893, raster support functions can only be loaded in the same schema<br> with core PostGIS functions. (Sandro Santilli)<br>* 4035, remove dummy pgis_abs type from aggregate/collect routines.<br> (Paul Ramsey)<br>* 4069, drop support for GEOS < 3.5 and PostgreSQL < 9.4 (Regina Obe)<br>* 4082, ST_BandMetaData extended to include filesize, timestamp (Even<br>Rouault)<br><br>**Enhancements and Fixes**<br> - Upgrade scripts from multiple old versions are now all symlinks<br> to a single upgrade script (Sandro Santilli)<br>* 3944, Update to EPSG register v9.2 (Even Rouault)<br>* 3927, Parallel implementation of ST_AsMVT<br>* 3925, Simplify geometry using map grid cell size before generating MVT<br>* 3899, BTree sort order is now defined on collections of EMPTY and<br> same-prefix geometries (Darafei Praliaskouski)<br>* 3864, Performance improvement for sorting POINT geometries<br> (Darafei Praliaskouski)<br>* 3900, GCC warnings fixed, make -j is now working (Darafei Praliaskouski)<br> - TopoGeo_addLinestring robustness improvements (Sandro Santilli)<br> #1855, #1946, #3718, #3838<br>* 3234, Do not accept EMPTY points as topology nodes (Sandro Santilli)<br>* 1014, Hashable geometry, allowing direct use in CTE signatures (Paul<br>Ramsey)<br>* 3097, Really allow MULTILINESTRING blades in ST_Split() (Paul Ramsey)<br>* 3942, geojson: Do not include private header for json-c >= 0.13 (Björn<br>Esser)<br>* 3954, ST_GeometricMedian now supports point weights (Darafei<br>Praliaskouski)<br>* 3965, #3971, #3977, #4071 ST_ClusterKMeans rewritten: better<br>initialization,<br> faster convergence, K=2 even faster (Darafei Praliaskouski)<br>* 3982, ST_AsEncodedPolyline supports LINESTRING EMPTY and MULTIPOINT EMPTY<br> (Darafei Praliaskouski)<br>* 3986, ST_AsText now has second argument to limit decimal digits<br> (Marc Ducobu, Darafei Praliaskouski)<br>* 4020, Casting from box3d to geometry now returns correctly connected<br> PolyhedralSurface (Matthias Bay)<br>* 2508, ST_OffsetCurve now works with collections (Darafei Praliaskouski)<br>* 4006, ST_GeomFromGeoJSON support for json and jsonb as input<br> (Paul Ramsey, Regina Obe)<br>* 4038, ST_Subdivide now selects pivot for geometry split that reuses input<br> vertices. (Darafei Praliaskouski)<br>* 4025, #4032 Fixed precision issue in ST_ClosestPointOfApproach,<br> ST_DistanceCPA, and ST_CPAWithin (Paul Ramsey, Darafei<br>Praliaskouski)<br>* 4076, Reduce use of GEOS in topology implementation (Björn Harrtell)<br>* 4080, Add external raster band index to ST_BandMetaData<br> - Add Raster Tips section to Documentation for information about<br> Raster behavior (e.g. Out-DB performance, maximum open files)<br>* 4084: Fixed wrong code-comment regarding front/back of BOX3D (Matthias<br>Bay)<br>* 4060, #4094, PostgreSQL JIT support (Raúl Marín, Laurenz Albe)<br>* 3960, ST_Centroid now uses lwgeom_centroid (Darafei Praliaskouski)<br>* 4027, Remove duplicated code in lwgeom_geos (Darafei Praliaskouski,<br> Daniel Baston)<br>* 4115, Fix a bug that created MVTs with incorrect property values under<br> parallel plans (Raúl Marín).<br>* 4120, ST_AsMVTGeom: Clip using tile coordinates (Raúl Marín).<br>* 4132, ST_Intersection on Raster now works without throwing<br>TopologyException<br> (Vinícius A.B. Schmidt, Darafei Praliaskouski)<br>* 4177, #4180 Support for PostgreSQL 12 dev branch (Laurenz Albe, Raúl<br>Marín)<br>* 4156, ST_ChaikinSmoothing: also smooth start/end point of<br> polygon by default (Darafei Praliaskouski)<br><br><br>Thanks,<br>PostGIS Development Team<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Discuss mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Discuss@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">Discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss" target="_blank">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss</a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div></div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>--<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Jody Garnett<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>