[postgis-users] PostGIS 1.3.4 Released

[Paul Ramsey]

After a lengthy development and testing process, it is with some
trepidation that we bring PostGIS 1.3.4 out into a harsh and
unforgiving world.

http://postgis.refractions.net/download/postgis-1.3.4.tar.gz

- New Features
  - Add new ST_AsGeoJSON() function to allow conversion of
    geometries to GeoJSON format within the database. (Olivier Courtin)
  - Add forthcoming PostgreSQL 8.4 support
    (Paul Ramsey, Mark Cave-Ayland)
  - Improved CSS for PostGIS documentation (Dane Springmeyer)
  - Inclusion of new "postgis_comments.sql" file to enable detailed
    function comments to be installed for PostGIS functions. This
    attaches a description and associated parameter information
    to each function so that this information is available directly
    within psql/pgAdmin (Regina Obe)
- Enhancements and Bug Fixes
  - General documentation improvements (Regina Obe, Kevin Neufield)
  - Improve PiP code by removing substantial memory leaks and adding
    multi-polygon support (Paul Ramsey)
  - Improve GiST consistent performance (Paul Ramsey)
  - GBT#20: Improved algorithm for ST_DWithin (Paul Ramsey)
  - GBT#21: locate_along_measure: wrong values, invalid data
    (Mark Cave-Ayland)
  - GBT#23: wrong proj4text in spatial_ref_sys for SRID 31300 and 31370
    (Paul Ramsey)
  - GBT#43: Heap over-read in compute_geometry_stats() (Landon Fuller)
  - GBT#44: ST_Relate(geom,geom,pattern) is case sensitive (Paul Ramsey)
  - GBT#45: bug in postgis_restore.pl - not passing options to createdb
    (Paul Ramsey)
  - GBT#58: bounding box of circular string is incorrect (Mark Leslie)
  - GBT#65: ST_AsGML kills the backend when fed a CIRCULAR STRING
    (Mark Cave-Ayland)
  - GBT#66: ST_Dump kills backend when fed CIRCULAR STRING
    (Mark Cave-Ayland)
  - GBT#68: ST_Shift_Longitude doesn't work with MULTIPOINT
    (Mark Cave-Ayland)
  - GBT#69: ST_Translate crashes when fed circular string
    (Mark Cave-Ayland)
  - GBT#70: ST_NPoints Crashes with Curves (Mark Cave-Ayland)