[postgis-users] PostGIS 2.1.0 beta2 is ready

[Paragon Corporation]

The 2.1.0beta2 release of PostGIS is now available.

The PostGIS development team is proud to release a feature complete beta
version of upcoming PostGIS 2.1.0. As befits a minor release, the focus is
on speed improvements, more features, and bug fixes. While this beta release
is feature complete, we expect some bugs and we'd appreciate it if you test
it before final release and report back with any issues you run into so we
can have a smooth release.
Please refer to our support page for instructions on reporting bugs

http://postgis.net/support 

If you are currently using PostGIS 2.0+, you can go the soft upgrade path:
ALTER EXTENSION postgis UPDATE TO "2.1.0beta2";

Users of 1.5 and below wil need to go the hard-upgrade path.

Best served with a bottle of GEOS 3.4.0dev and PostgreSQL 9.3beta1. (which
will also be released soon)

Source: http://download.osgeo.org/postgis/source/postgis-2.1.0beta2.tar.gz
Html docs: http://download.osgeo.org/postgis/docs/doc-html-2.1.0beta2.tar.gz
PDF: http://download.osgeo.org/postgis/docs/postgis-2.1.0beta2.pdf
EPUB: http://download.osgeo.org/postgis/docs/postgis-2.1.0beta2.epub


(For Windows users we'll be providing beta binaries for 9.0 (x64),9.1
(x64),9.2 both (x32,x64), and upcoming 9.3 both (x32,x64) 
Within the next day )


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This release contains a ton of speed improvements, function additions , and
super sexy new features. It has been over a year in the making.

Enhancements * documentation now also available in epub format * Faster
geography distance and intersects, more functions for geography * index
selectivity and stats improvements for both geometry and geography which
means complicated queries should be planned more efficiently * significantly
faster raster operations particularly union and clipping * multi-band union
support and mapalgebra * better raster out-db and non-georeferenced rasters
(like pictures) * bug fixes and some new functions for topology * support
for PostgreSQL 9.3 * tiger geocoder now can be installed with CREATE
EXTENSION postgis_tiger_geocoder;

New Features

New functions itemized in
http://postgis.net/docs/manual-dev/PostGISSpecialFunctionsIndex.html#NewFunc
tions2_1

    more functions for geography
    more functions for geometry (need geos 3.4.0 to take advantage of many
new ones)
    more functions for topology
    overflowing number of new functions for raster
    advanced 3D support via SFCGAL module (requires compilation with SFCGAL)
Refer to matrix to see which functions utilize SFCGAL
http://postgis.net/docs/manual-dev/PostGISSpecialFunctionsIndex.html#PostGIS
TypeFunctionMatrix
    tiger geocoder support for TIGER 2012
    tiger geocoder can now use pagc address standardizer extension for
better normalization of addresses using pagc_normalize_address (requires
installing pagc address_standardizer PostgreSQL extension)
http://pagc.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pagc/branches/sew-refactor/postgresql
/?view=tar


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