[postgis-users] 2.1.6 Released

[Paul Ramsey]

The 2.1.6 release of PostGIS is now available.

The PostGIS development team is happy to release patch for PostGIS 2.1, the 2.1.6 release. As befits a patch release, the focus is on bugs, breakages, and performance issues. Users with large tables of points will want to priorize this patch, for substantial (~50%) disk space savings.

http://download.osgeo.org/postgis/source/postgis-2.1.6.tar.gz

Enhancements

#3000, Ensure edge splitting and healing algorithms use indexes
#3048, Speed up geometry simplification (J.Santana @ CartoDB)
#3050, Speep up geometry type reading (J.Santana @ CartoDB)
Bug Fixes

#2941, allow geography columns with SRID other than 4326
#3069, small objects getting inappropriately fluffed up w/ boxes
#3068, Have postgis_typmod_dims return NULL for unconstrained dims
#3061, Allow duplicate points in JSON, GML, GML ST_GeomFrom* functions
#3058, Fix ND-GiST picksplit method to split on the best plane
#3052, Make operators <-> and <#> available for PostgreSQL < 9.1
#3045, Fix dimensionality confusion in &&& operator
#3016, Allow unregistering layers of corrupted topologies
#3015, Avoid exceptions from TopologySummary
#3020, ST_AddBand out-db bug where height using width value
#3031, Allow restore of Geometry(Point) tables dumped with empties in them
View all closed tickets.



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Paul Ramsey
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