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commit bd41cdf8aa921c21a4c866af5a34ed9aa43fe8aa
Author: Regina Obe <lr at pcorp.us>
Date:   Sun May 18 00:42:20 2025 -0400

    3.6.0alpha1 release notes, fix 3.5.3 release notes

diff --git a/content/news/2025/05-17_postgis-3.5.3.md b/content/news/2025/05-17_postgis-3.5.3.md
index 87ca22a..fa5c54d 100644
--- a/content/news/2025/05-17_postgis-3.5.3.md
+++ b/content/news/2025/05-17_postgis-3.5.3.md
@@ -40,18 +40,18 @@ This release is a bug fix release that includes bug fixes since PostGIS 3.5.1.
 
 - Do not complain about illegal option when calling shp2pgsql -?
   (Sandro Santilli, Giovanni Zezza)
-- [#5862]https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/5862, [topology] Prevent another topology corruption with
+- [#5862](https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/5862), [topology] Prevent another topology corruption with
          TopoGeo_addPoint near almost collinear edges (Sandro Santilli)
-- [#5841]https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/5841, Change approach to interrupt handling to conform to PgSQL
+- [#5841](https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/5841), Change approach to interrupt handling to conform to PgSQL
          recommended practice (Paul Ramsey)
-- [#5855]https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/5855, Fix index binding in ST_DFullyWithin (Paul Ramsey)
-- [#5819]https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/5819, Support longer names in estimated extent (Paul Ramsey)
+- [#5855](https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/5855), Fix index binding in ST_DFullyWithin (Paul Ramsey)
+- [#5819](https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/5819), Support longer names in estimated extent (Paul Ramsey)
 - Fix misassignment of result in _lwt_HealEdges (Maxim Korotkov)
-- [#5876]https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/5876, ST_AddPoint with empty argument adds garbage (Paul Ramsey)
-- [#5874]https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/5874, Line substring returns wrong answer (Paul Ramsey)
-- [#5829]https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/5829, geometry_columns with non-standard constraints (Paul Ramsey)
-- [#5818]https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/5818, GT-244 Fix CG_IsSolid function (Loïc Bartoletti)
-- [#5885]https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/5885, Fix documentation about grid-based overlay operations (Sandro Santilli)
+- [#5876](https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/5876), ST_AddPoint with empty argument adds garbage (Paul Ramsey)
+- [#5874](https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/5874), Line substring returns wrong answer (Paul Ramsey)
+- [#5829](https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/5829), geometry_columns with non-standard constraints (Paul Ramsey)
+- [#5818](https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/5818), [GT-244](https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/postgis/postgis/pulls/244) Fix CG_IsSolid function (Loïc Bartoletti)
+- [#5885](https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/5885), Fix documentation about grid-based overlay operations (Sandro Santilli)
 - For SFCGAL 2.1.0+ prevent using deprecated functions (Regina Obe)
 
 ### Upgrading
diff --git a/content/news/2025/05-18_postgis-3.6.0alpha1.md b/content/news/2025/05-18_postgis-3.6.0alpha1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..13dca7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/content/news/2025/05-18_postgis-3.6.0alpha1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+---
+title: PostGIS 3.6.0alpha1
+layout: post
+category: news
+tags: [release, 3.6]
+author: Regina Obe
+thumbnail:
+date: "2025-05-18"
+---
+
+The PostGIS Team is pleased to release PostGIS 3.6.0alpha1!
+Best Served with [PostgreSQL 18 Beta1](https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-18-beta-1-released-3070/)
+and [GEOS 3.13.1](https://github.com/libgeos/geos/releases/tag/3.13.1).
+
+This version requires PostgreSQL 12 - 18beta1, GEOS 3.8 or higher, and Proj 6.1+.
+To take advantage of all features, GEOS 3.12+ is needed.
+To take advantage of all SFCGAL features, SFCGAL 2.1.0+ is needed.
+
+### 3.6.0alpha1
+
+* [source download]({{< loc "postgis.release_source">}}/postgis-3.6.0alpha1.tar.gz) [md5]({{< loc "postgis.dev_download">}}/postgis-3.6.0alpha1.tar.gz.md5)
+* [NEWS](https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/postgis/postgis/raw/tag/3.6.0alpha1/NEWS)
+* HTML Online [en]({{< loc "site.root">}}docs/manual-3.6/en/) [ja]({{< loc "site.root">}}docs/manual-3.6/ja/) [fr]({{< loc "site.root">}}docs/manual-3.6/fr/) [zh_Hans]({{< loc "site.root">}}docs/manual-3.6/zh_Hans/)
+* PDF docs: [en]({{< loc "postgis.dev_download">}}/postgis-3.6-en.pdf) [ja]({{< loc "postgis.release_docs">}}/postgis-3.6-ja.pdf), [zh_Hans]({{< loc "postgis.dev_download">}}/postgis-3.6-zh_Hans.pdf),  [fr]({{< loc "postgis.dev_download">}}/postgis-3.6-fr.pdf)
+
+* Cheat Sheets:
+  * postgis: [en]({{< loc "site.root">}}docs/manual-3.6/postgis_cheatsheet-en.html) [ja]({{< loc "site.root">}}docs/manual-3.6/postgis_cheatsheet-ja.html) [fr]({{< loc "site.root">}}docs/manual-3.6/postgis_cheatsheet-fr.html) [zh_Hans]({{< loc "site.root">}}docs/manual-3.6/postgis_cheatsheet-zh_Hans.html) 
+  * postgis_raster: [en]({{< loc "site.root">}}docs/manual-3.6/raster_cheatsheet-en.html) [ja]({{< loc "site.root">}}docs/manual-3.6/raster_cheatsheet-ja.html) [fr]({{< loc "site.root">}}docs/manual-3.6/raster_cheatsheet-fr.html) [zh_Hans]({{< loc "site.root">}}docs/manual-3.6/raster_cheatsheet-zh_Hans.html)
+  * postgis_topology: [en]({{< loc "site.root">}}docs/manual-3.6/topology_cheatsheet-en.html) [ja]({{< loc "site.root">}}docs/manual-3.6/topology_cheatsheet-ja.html) [fr]({{< loc "site.root">}}docs/manual-3.6/topology_cheatsheet-fr.html) [zh_Hans]({{< loc "site.root">}}docs/manual-3.6/topology_cheatsheet-zh_Hans.html)
+  * postgis_sfcgal: [en]({{< loc "site.root">}}docs/manual-3.6/sfcgal_cheatsheet-en.html) [ja]({{< loc "site.root">}}docs/manual-3.6/sfcgal_cheatsheet-ja.html) [fr]({{< loc "site.root">}}docs/manual-3.6/sfcgal_cheatsheet-fr.html) [zh_Hans]({{< loc "site.root">}}docs/manual-3.6/sfcgal_cheatsheet-zh_Hans.html) 
+  * address standardizer, postgis_tiger_geocoder: [en]({{< loc "site.root">}}docs/manual-3.6/tiger_geocoder_cheatsheet-en.html) [ja]({{< loc "site.root">}}docs/manual-3.6/tiger_geocoder_cheatsheet-ja.html) [fr]({{< loc "site.root">}}docs/manual-3.6/tiger_geocoder_cheatsheet-fr.html) [zh_Hans]({{< loc "site.root">}}docs/manual-3.6/tiger_geocoder_cheatsheet-zh_Hans.html)
+
+This release is an alpha of a major release, it includes bug fixes since PostGIS 3.5.3 and new features.
+
+<!--more-->
+
+Many thanks to our translation teams, in particular:
+
+Dapeng Wang, Zuo Chenwei from HighGo (Chinese Team)
+Teramoto Ikuhiro (Japanese Team)
+Vincent Bre from Oslandia (French Team)
+
+### Upgrading
+
+After installing the binaries or after running pg_upgrade:
+
+For PostGIS 3.5, 3.4, 3.3, 3.2, 3.1, 3.0
+do below which will upgrade all your postgis extensions.
+```postgres
+SELECT postgis_extensions_upgrade();
+```
+
+
+For PostGIS 2.5 and below do:
+
+```postgres
+ALTER EXTENSION postgis UPDATE;
+SELECT postgis_extensions_upgrade();
+SELECT postgis_extensions_upgrade();
+```
+
+If you come across any issues, feel free to report via our [ticket tracker](https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis)
+or [mailing list](https://lists.osgeo.org/listinfo/postgis-users) with details
+
+View all [tickets for 3.6.0alpha1 milestone][1].
+
+[1]: https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/query?status=assigned&status=closed&milestone=PostGIS+3.6.0&milestone=PostGIS+3.5.3

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 content/news/2025/05-17_postgis-3.5.3.md       | 18 +++----
 content/news/2025/05-18_postgis-3.6.0alpha1.md | 67 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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