[postgis-users] PostGIS 1.4.0 Released

[Mark Vantzelfde]

Please post when things are ready and I will give it a go.

Mark

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Paragon Corporation <lr at pcorp.us> wrote:

>  Mark,
> We'll try to have windows binaries out by Monday and then the stack
> installer/builder part probably week after.   So those who already installed
> and RC just need to overwrite their binaries.  Nothing technically has
> changed since most of the RC2->production were more on the testing scripts.
>
> Unfortunately Mark Cave-Ayland is on vacation and I think since this is our
> first time doing it, we should wait for him before we push to Stack Builder.
>
> Oh by the way we just came back from OSCON and will be posting our slides
> and data shortly which will showcase some of the speed improvements in 1.4
> and taking advantage of PostgreSQL 8.4 features.  Should have those posted
> sometime later today.
>
> Thanks,
> Regina
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net [mailto:
> postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net] *On Behalf Of *Mark
> Vantzelfde
> *Sent:* Friday, July 24, 2009 2:20 PM
> *To:* PostGIS Users Discussion
> *Subject:* Re: [postgis-users] PostGIS 1.4.0 Released
>
> 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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