[postgis-devel] PostGIS 2.4.0rc3 is released

[Regina Obe]

The PostGIS development team is pleased to announce the release of PostGIS
2.4.0rc3.
Best served with [PostgreSQL 10RC1 
(https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/index.html)

and   pgRouting 2.5.0 :
https://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting/releases/tag/v2.5.0

See the full list of changes in the
https://git.osgeo.org/gogs/postgis/postgis/raw/2.4.0rc3/NEWS

This will be the final rc before we have our 2.4.0 release.

* Source:  http://download.osgeo.org/postgis/source/postgis-2.4.0rc3.tar.gz
* html docs: http://download.osgeo.org/postgis/docs/doc-html-2.4.0rc3.tar.gz
(this version includes Japanese, German, Portugese and Korean single html
files)
* pdf: http://download.osgeo.org/postgis/docs/postgis-2.4.0rc3.pdf
* epub: http://download.osgeo.org/postgis/docs/postgis-2.4.0rc3.epub

**Changes since PostGIS 2.4.0rc2 release**

- #3781 st_contains cannot handle curvepolygon / compoundcurve consisting of
only straight lines
- #3866 server crashing from large values in ST_AsTWKB
- #3818 Allow triangles unclosed in M to be WKT parsed
- several packaging changes regarding checking trailing blanks

* ChangeLog:
https://git.osgeo.org/gogs/postgis/postgis/raw/2.4.0rc3/ChangeLog


If you are upgrading from an existing PostGIS install, make sure after
installing PostGIS 2.4.0rc3 binaries to do.

ALTER EXTENSION postgis UPDATE;

-- if you have additional postgishy extensions below upgrade them too

ALTER EXTENSION postgis_sfcgal UPDATE;
ALTER EXTENSION postgis_topology UPDATE;
ALTER EXTENSION postgis_tiger_geocoder UPDATE;
ALTER EXTENSION pgrouting UPDATE; 


View all closed tickets for 2.4.0rc3.
 
http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/query?status=closed&groupdesc=1&group=priority
&milestone=PostGIS+2.4.0&order=priority

Love,
PostGIS Development Team