[postgis-users] PostGIS 1.4.0 Released

[Mark Vantzelfde]

Thank you!

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Paul Ramsey <pramsey at opengeo.org> wrote:

> July 24, 2009
>
> The PostGIS development team has, after a long period of meditation
> and soul searching, released version 1.4.0 of the spatial data
> extension for PostgreSQL.
>
>  http://postgis.refractions.net/download/postgis-1.4.0.tar.gz
>
> This new version of PostGIS includes substantial performance
> enhancements, more detailed reference documentation, new output
> formats (GeoJSON) and an improved internal testing system. PostGIS 1.4
> also supports the recent PostgreSQL 8.4 release.
>
> Thanks to everyone who helped by testing during the release candidate
> process!
>
> Your PostGIS Team
>
> -- Detailed PostGIS 1.4 Release Notes --
>
>  - As of the 1.4 release series, the public API of PostGIS will not
>        change during minor releases.
>
>  - Compatibility
>  - The versions below are the *minimum* requirements for PostGIS 1.4
>  - PostgreSQL 8.2 and higher on all platforms
>  - GEOS 3.0 and higher only
>  - PROJ4 4.5 and higher only
>
>  - New Features
>  - ST_Union() uses high-speed cascaded union when compiled against
>        GEOS 3.1+ (Paul Ramsey)
>  - ST_ContainsProperly() requires GEOS 3.1+
>  - ST_Intersects(), ST_Contains(), ST_Within() use high-speed cached
>        prepared geometry against GEOS 3.1+ (Paul Ramsey)
>  - Vastly improved documentation and reference manual
>        (Regina Obe & Kevin Neufeld)
>  - Figures and diagram examples in the reference manual (Kevin Neufeld)
>  - ST_IsValidReason() returns readable explanations for validity
>        failures (Paul Ramsey)
>  - ST_GeoHash() returns a geohash.org signature for geometries
>        (Paul Ramsey)
>  - GTK+ multi-platform GUI for shape file loading (Paul Ramsey)
>  - ST_LineCrossingDirection() returns crossing directions (Paul Ramsey)
>  - ST_LocateBetweenElevations() returns sub-string based on Z-ordinate.
>        (Paul Ramsey)
>  - Geometry parser returns explicit error message about location of
>        syntax errors (Mark Cave-Ayland)
>  - ST_AsGeoJSON() return JSON formatted
>  - Populate_Geometry_Columns() -- automatically add records to
>        geometry_columns for TABLES and VIEWS (Kevin Neufeld)
>  - ST_MinimumBoundingCircle() -- returns the smallest circle
>        polygon that can encompass a geometry (Bruce Rindahl)
>
>  - Enhancements
>  - Core geometry system moved into independent library, liblwgeom.
>        (Mark Cave-Ayland)
>  - New build system uses PostgreSQL "pgxs" build bootstrapper.
>        (Mark Cave-Ayland)
>  - Debugging framework formalized and simplified. (Mark Cave-Ayland)
>  - All build-time #defines generated at configure time and placed in
>        headers for easier cross-platform support (Mark Cave-Ayland)
>  - Logging framework formalized and simplified (Mark Cave-Ayland)
>  - Expanded and more stable support for CIRCULARSTRING,
>        COMPOUNDCURVE and CURVEPOLYGON, better parsing,
>        wider support in functions (Mark Leslie & Mark Cave-Ayland)
>  - Improved support for OpenSolaris builds (Paul Ramsey)
>  - Improved support for MSVC builds (Mateusz Loskot)
>  - Updated KML support (Olivier Courtin)
>  - Unit testing framework for liblwgeom (Paul Ramsey)
>  - New testing framework to comprehensively exercise every
>    PostGIS function (Regine Obe)
>  - Performance improvements to all geometry aggregate
>    functions (Paul Ramsey)
>  - Support for the upcoming PostgreSQL 8.4 (Mark Cave-Ayland,
>    Talha Bin Rizwan)
>  - Shp2pgsql and pgsql2shp re-worked to depend on
>    the common parsing/unparsing code in liblwgeom (Mark Cave-Ayland)
>  - Use of PDF DbLatex to build PDF docs and preliminary
>    instructions for build  (Jean David Techer)
>  - Automated User documentation build (PDF and HTML) and
>    Developer Doxygen Documentation (Kevin Neufeld)
>  - Automated build of document images using ImageMagick
>    from WKT geometry text files (Kevin Neufeld)
>  - More attractive CSS for HTML documentation
>    (Dane Springmeyer)
>  - Bug fixes
>  -
> http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/query?status=closed&milestone=postgis+1.4.0&order=priority
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Mark Vantzelfde
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