[QGIS-Developer] Fwd: NEXTGEN new release: SpatiaLite 5.0.0 RC1

[Jeff McKenna]

Forwarding this great news to the QGIS dev team...


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Hi list,

I'm glad to announce that after a very long pause of about two years
a new Relase Candidate is finally available.

The wait was not in vain;this is certainly the most advanced and 
sophisticated
SpatiaLite version ever been released and supports many cool new features:
1. full rasterlite2 integration
2. ISO Topology support
3. supporting new PROJ 6/7
4. supporting Stored Procedures
... and many others

please check the documentation about 5.0 from here:
https://www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/wiki?name=5.0.0-doc

full documentation about all SQL functions supported by 5.0 is here:
http://www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite-sql-5.0.0.html

source tarballs can be downloaded from here:
http://www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/libspatialite-sources/libspatialite-5.0.0-RC1.tar.gz
http://www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/libspatialite-sources/libspatialite-5.0.0-RC1.zip

http://www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite-tools-5.0.0-RC1.tar.gz
http://www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite-tools-5.0.0-RC1.zip

pre-built binaries for Windows are here:
http://www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/windows-bin-NEXTGEN-x86
http://www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/windows-bin-NEXTGEN-amd64

I'll give in a following post further detailed infos about the
current state of all other members of the family (freexl,
readosm, rasterlite2, virtualPG and the GUI tool).

Happy testing,
Sandro