[postgis-devel] PostGIS 2.3.0beta1 release

[Even Rouault]

Hi Regina,

Passes the OGR PostGIS regression tests (tested with PostgreSQL 9.5.2 and 
9.6RC1)

Even

Le mardi 06 septembre 2016 09:19:53, Regina Obe a écrit :
> The PostGIS development team is proud to release PostGIS 2.3.0beta1.
> 
> PostGIS 2.3 is feature complete, so we're looking for testing and feedback!
> Best served with PostgreSQL 9.6.
> 
> Please give this beta a try and report back any issues you encounter.
> 
> Download -
> http://download.osgeo.org/postgis/source/postgis-2.3.0beta1.tar.gz
> HMTL docs -
> http://download.osgeo.org/postgis/docs/doc-html-2.3.0beta1.tar.gz
> PDF docs - http://download.osgeo.org/postgis/docs/postgis-2.3.0beta1.pdf
> 
> 
> * Important / Breaking Changes *
> 
>   - #3466, Casting from box3d to geometry now returns a 3D
>            geometry (Julien Rouhaud of Dalibo)
> 
>   - #3604, pgcommon/Makefile.in orders
> 	       CFLAGS incorrectly leading to wrong liblwgeom.h
> 		   (Greg Troxel)
> 
> * New Features *
> 
> -- new functions can be found here -
> http://postgis.net/docs/manual-dev/PostGIS_Special_Functions_Index.html#New
> F unctions_2_3
> 
>   - Add support for custom TOC in postgis_restore.pl
>     (Christoph Moench-Tegeder)
>   - Add support for negative indexing in ST_PointN and ST_SetPoint
>     (Rémi Cura)
>   - Add parameters for geography ST_Buffer (Thomas Bonfort)
>   - TopoGeom_addElement, TopoGeom_remElement (Sandro Santilli)
>   - populate_topology_layer (Sandro Santilli)
>   - #454,  ST_WrapX and lwgeom_wrapx (Sandro Santilli)
>   - #1758, ST_Normalize (Sandro Santilli)
>   - #2236, shp2pgsql -d now emits "DROP TABLE IF EXISTS"
>   - #2259, ST_Voronoi* (Dan Baston)
>   - #2991, Enable ST_Transform to use PROJ.4 text (Mike Toews)
>   - #3059, Allow passing per-dimension parameters in ST_Expand (Dan Baston)
>   - #3339, ST_GeneratePoints (Paul Ramsey)
>   - #3362, ST_ClusterDBSCAN (Dan Baston)
>   - #3364, ST_GeometricMedian (Dan Baston)
>   - #3391, Add table inheritance support in ST_EstimatedExtent
>            (Alessandro Pasotti)
>   - #3424, ST_MinimumClearance (Dan Baston)
>   - #3428, ST_Points (Dan Baston)
>   - #3465, ST_ClusterKMeans (Paul Ramsey)
>   - #3469, ST_MakeLine with MULTIPOINTs (Paul Norman)
>   - #3549, Support PgSQL 9.6 parallel query mode, as far as possible
>     (Paul Ramsey, Regina Obe)
>   - #3557, Geometry function costs based on query stats (Paul Norman)
>   - #3591, Add support for BRIN indexes. PostgreSQL 9.4+ required.
> 		  (Giuseppe Broccolo of 2nd Quadrant, Julien Rouhaud and
> Ronan Dunklau of Dalibo)
>   - #3496, Make postgis non-relocateable (for extension install),
> 		schema qualify calls in functions (Regina Obe)
> 		Should resolve once and for all for extensions #3494, #3486,
> #3076
> 
>   - #3547, Update tiger geocoder to support TIGER 2016
>    and to support both http and ftp. (Regina Obe)
> 
>  * Performance Enhancements *
> 
>   - #75, Enhancement to PIP short circuit (Dan Baston)
>   - #3383, Avoid deserializing small geometries during index operations
>     (Dan Baston)
>   - #3400, Minor optimization of PIP routines (Dan Baston)
>   - Make adding a line to topology interruptible (Sandro Santilli)
>   - #3613, Segmentize geography using equal length segments, (Hugo Mercier
> of Oslandia)
> 
> 
> On Behalf of all the PostGIS Development Team,
> We wish you all a joyous testing experience
> 
> Thanks,
> Regina
> 
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