[postgis-users] PostGIS 2.4.0beta1 is released

[Regina Obe]

The PostGIS development team is pleased to announce the release of PostGIS
2.4.0beta1.
PostGIS 2.4.0 will be the first version to support PostgreSQL 10.
Best served with  PostgreSQL 10beta4
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/index.html
and pgRouting 2.5.0beta
https://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting/releases/tag/v2.5.0-beta
See the full list of changes in the  news file
https://git.osgeo.org/gogs/postgis/postgis/raw/2.4.0beta1/NEWS.

We encourage everyone to test and in particular package maintainers  to
insure no surprises at final release time. 

**IMPORTANT NOTES**

>From this point forward until release of PostGIS 2.4.0, no new functions
will be added.  
Only bug fixes will be addressed in future 2.4.0 betas and rcs.  

In order to have Map Box Vector Tiles support enabled, you'll need to
compile with protobuf support
and pkg-config  to verify the correct minimum version of protobuf-c see
https://github.com/protobuf-c/protobuf-c
for details.  ST_FrechetDistance function will not be enabled if PostGIS is
compiled with lower than GEOS 3.7.0.
GEOS 3.7.0 will be released around the same time as PostGIS 2.4.0 and will
have a beta release in a week.


* Source Download
http://download.osgeo.org/postgis/source/postgis-2.4.0beta1.tar.gz
* html doc download
http://download.osgeo.org/postgis/docs/doc-html-2.4.0beta1.tar.gz ()this
version includes Japanese translation postgis-ja.html)
* pdf doc download
http://download.osgeo.org/postgis/docs/postgis-2.4.0beta1.pdf
* epub doc download
http://download.osgeo.org/postgis/docs/postgis-2.4.0beta1.epub
* ChangeLog
https://git.osgeo.org/gogs/postgis/postgis/raw/2.4.0beta1/ChangeLog



Please report bugs  http://postgis.net/support/ that you find in this
release.

**New Features**

* 3822, Have postgis_full_version also show and check version of
PostgreSQL the scripts were built against (Sandro Santilli)
* 2411, curves support in ST_Reverse (Sandro Santilli)
* 2951, ST_Centroid for geography (Danny Götte)
* 3788, Allow postgis_restore.pl to work on directory-style -Fd dumps
(Roger Crew)
* 3772, Direction agnostic ST_CurveToLine output (Sandro Santilli / KKGeo)
* 2464, ST_CurveToLine with MaxError tolerance (Sandro Santilli / KKGeo)
* 3599, Geobuf output support via ST_AsGeobuf (Björn Harrtell)
* 3661, Mapbox vector tile output support via ST_AsMVT (Björn Harrtell /
Carto)
* 3689, Add orientation checking and forcing functions (Dan Baston)
* 3753, Gist penalty speed improvements for 2d and nd points
(Darafei Praliaskouski)
* 3677, ST_FrechetDistance Shinichi Sugiyama
- Most aggregates raster and geometry,
and all stable / immutable raster and geometry marked as parallel safe
* 2249, ST_MakeEmptyCoverage for raster David Zwarg, ainomieli
* 3709, Allow signed distance for ST_Project ( Darafei Praliaskouski )
* 524, Covers support for Polygon-on-polygon, line on line,
point on line for geography (Danny Götte)

**Enhancements**

* Support for PostgreSQL 10
* 3747, Add zip4 and address_alphanumeric as attributes
         to norm_addy tiger_geocoder type.
* 3748, address_standardizer lookup tables update
         so pagc_normalize_address better standardizes abbreviations
* 3647, better handling of noding in ST_Node using GEOSNode
        Wouter Geraedts
* 3684, Update to EPSG register v9
        Even Rouault

**Breaking Changes**

* Dropped support for PostgreSQL 9.2.
* 3810, GEOS 3.4.0 or above minimum required to compile
* Most aggregates now marked as parallel safe,
  which means most aggs have to be dropped / recreated.
  If you have views that utilize PostGIS aggs,
  you'll need to drop before upgrade and recreate after upgrade. 
You'll be warned if you do as ALTER EXTENSION will fail.

View all closed tickets for 2.4.01.
 
1:http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/query?status=closed&groupdesc=1&group=priori
ty&milestone=PostGIS+2.4.0&order=priority

Love,
PostGIS Development Team