[Mobilitydb-dev] Joint alpha release of MobilityDB and MEOS 1.3.0

[Esteban Zimanyi]

The MobilityDB Team is pleased to release MobilityDB v1.3.0-alpha!

https://github.com/MobilityDB/MobilityDB/releases/tag/v1.3.0-alpha

Major changes w.r.t. 1.2
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New temporal types:
* New temporal geometry (tgeometry) and temporal geography
(tgeography) types, which can represent the temporal evolution of any
geometry type (polygon, multipoint, etc.).
* A new temporal circular buffer (tcbuffer) type, which represents a
circular buffer (circle) whose position and radius changes over time.
* A new temporal pose (tpose) type, storing the evolution of a pose
(point position + orientation) over time.
* A new rigid temporal geometry (trgeometry) type, which represents a
fixed-shape polygon translating and rotating over time.

The tgeometry and tgeography types only allow discrete or stepwise
interpolation between instants, while the other three also allow
linear interpolation. Refer to the MobilityDB 1.3 documentation for
more information about these new types.

Please notice that the new types tcbuffer, tpose, and trgeometry are
still in development and are considered experimental.

In addition, the API of MobilityDB and MEOS was extended with new
functionality and streamlined to improve usability. Finally, version
1.3 also enables the latest versions PostgreSQL 18 and PostGIS 3.6.0.
For all these reasons, the binary format of the temporal types have
changed from version 1.2 to 1.3 and thus a backup and restore is
needed for migrating to the newer version 1.3 of MobilityDB.

Best regards,

The MobilityDB Team