PostGIS 3.6.0 released

[Sandro Santilli]

On Tue, Sep 09, 2025 at 08:03:39AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Sandro Santilli <strk at kbt.io> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, Sep 02, 2025 at 11:20:42AM -0400, Regina Obe wrote:
> >> PostGIS 3.6.0 is released.
> >
> > I noticed 3.5.4 was not released yet, so as someone pointed out we're now basically
> > missing the information about which bug were fixed by this 3.6.0 release,
> > as we usually just assume that a new minor includes all bug fixes from latest stable
> > release patch release.
> >
> > Is that assumption wrong ? Should we make it an explicit policy ?
> > Should we mention latest stable releases in the NEWS of a .0 release ?
> 
> I don't follow this.  The NEWS for 3.6.0 should contain information
> about 3.6.0.  I don't think it makes sense to talk about other branches
> in NEWS.  According to traditional standards, 3.6.0's NEWS should be
> relative to 3.5.0.  But, the traditional definition of NEWS doesn't
> include bugfixes anyway.

Well, someone wondered why we didn't have bugfixes, so I pointed out
we assume .0 releases don't fix bugs but only introduce new features,
while bugs are fixed in stable releases...

Of course there are a lot of bug fixes since 3.5.0, but we don't want
to include them in the NEWS for 3.6.0, as you are saying, but since
if you come from 3.5.0 and upgrade to 3.6.0 you are EFFECTIVELY
getting all the bugfixes in all the 3.5.x releases cut until that
point, it could make sense to mention what was the latest 3.5.x
release at the time of 3.6.0 release ?

--strk;

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  https://strk.kbt.io/services.html
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