[postgis-users] PostGIS 1.5.2 is finally out

[Paragon Corporation]

The PostGIS Project Steering Committee is proud to announce the official
release of PostGIS 1.5.2 
after extensive prodding from the PostGIS community of packagers and users
(Thanks Devrim : ) )

The source tar ball can be downloaded from:

http://www.postgis.org/download/

 This is a minor release addressing a few issues that have been filed since
the 1.5.1 release in addition to fixes that allow it to compile seamlessly
against
PostgreSQL 9.0.

Bug Fixes

    * Loader: fix handling of empty (0-verticed) geometries in shapefiles.
(Sandro Santilli)
    * #536, Geography ST_Intersects, ST_Covers, ST_CoveredBy and Geometry
ST_Equals not using spatial index (Regina Obe,  Nicklas Avén)
    * #573, Improvement to ST_Contains geography
    * Loader: Add support for command-q shutdown in Mac GTK build (Paul
Ramsey)
    * #393, Loader: Add temporary patch for large DBF files (Maxime
Guillaud, Paul Ramsey)
    * #507, Fix wrong OGC URN in GeoJSON and GML output (Olivier Courtin)
    * spatial_ref_sys.sql: Add datum conversion for projection SRID 3021
(Paul Ramsey)
    * Geography: remove crash for case when all geographies are out of the
estimate (Paul Ramsey)
    * #469, Fix for array_aggregation error (Greg Stark, Paul Ramsey)
    * #532, Temporary geography tables showing up in other user sessions
(Paul Ramsey)
    * #562, ST_Dwithin errors for large geographies (Paul Ramsey)
    * #513, shape loading GUI tries to make spatial index when loading DBF
only mode (Paul Ramsey)
    * #527, shape loading GUI should always append log messages (Mark
Cave-Ayland)
    * #504, shp2pgsql should rename xmin/xmax fields (Sandro Santilli)
    * #458, postgis_comments being installed in contrib instead of version
folder (Mark Cave-Ayland)
    * #474, Analyzing a table with geography column crashes server (Paul
Ramsey)
    * #581, LWGEOM-expand produces inconsistent results (Mark Cave-Ayland)
    * #471, DocBook dtd errors (Olivier Courtin)
    * Fix further build issues against PostgreSQL 9.0 (Mark Cave-Ayland)
    * #572, Password whitespace for Shape File to PostGIS Import not
supported (Mark Cave-Ayland)
    * shp2pgsql: "-w" produces invalid WKT for MULTI* objects. (Mark
Cave-Ayland)

Enhancement

    * #513, Add dbf filter to shp2pgsql-gui and allow uploading dbf only
(Paul Ramsey)


Windows builds will be out later this week or early next and also available
on Stackbuilder.  We are also working on 64-bit windows build for PostgreSQL
9.0  which we hope to have soon.

Thanks from the loving PostGIS PSC,
Kevin, Mark, Paul and Regina