PostGIS 2.1.2 Released

Mar 31, 2014 release 2.1

The 2.1.2 release of PostGIS is now available.

The PostGIS development team is happy to release patch for PostGIS 2.1, the 2.1.2 release. As befits a patch release, the focus is on bugs and breakages.

Best served with a bottle of GEOS 3.4.2.

<https://download.osgeo.org/postgis/source/postgis-2.1.2.tar.gz>

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Changes

#2514, Change raster license from GPL v3+ to v2+, allowing distribution of PostGIS Extension as GPLv2.

Bug Fixes

#2666, Error out at configure time if no SQL preprocessor can be found
#2534, st_distance returning incorrect results for large geographies
#2539, Check for json-c/json.h presence/usability before json/json.h
#2543, invalid join selectivity error from simple query
#2546, GeoJSON with string coordinates parses incorrectly
#2547, Fix ST_Simplify(TopoGeometry) for hierarchical topogeoms
#2552, Fix NULL raster handling in ST_AsPNG, ST_AsTIFF and ST_AsJPEG
#2555, Fix parsing issue of range arguments of ST_Reclass
#2556, geography ST_Intersects results depending on insert order
#2580, Do not allow installing postgis twice in the same database
#2589, Remove use of unnecessary void pointers
#2607, Cannot open more than 1024 out-db files in one process
#2610, Ensure face splitting algorithm uses the edge index
#2615, EstimatedExtent (and hence, underlying stats) gathering wrong bbox
#2619, Empty rings array in GeoJSON polygon causes crash
#2634, regression in sphere distance code
#2638, Geography distance on M geometries sometimes wrong
#2648, #2653, Fix topology functions when “topology” is not in search_path
#2654, Drop deprecated calls from topology
#2655, Let users without topology privileges call postgis_full_version()
#2674, Fix missing operator = and hash_raster_ops opclass on raster
#2675, #2534, #2636, #2634, #2638, Geography distance issues with tree optimization

Enhancements

#2494, avoid memcopy in GiST index (hayamiz)
#2560, soft upgrade: avoid drop/recreate of aggregates that hadn’t changed

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