PostGIS 2.1.4 Released

Sep 10, 2014 release 2.1

The 2.1.4 release of PostGIS is now available.

The PostGIS development team is happy to release patch for PostGIS 2.1, the 2.1.4 release. As befits a patch release, the focus is on bugs, breakages, and performance issues

<https://download.osgeo.org/postgis/source/postgis-2.1.4.tar.gz>

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Enhancements

#2745, Speedup ST_Simplify calls against points
#2747, Support for GDAL 2.0
#2749, Make rtpostgis_upgrade_20_21.sql ACID
#2811, Do not specify index names when loading shapefiles/rasters
#2829, Shortcut ST_Clip(raster) if geometry fully contains the raster and no NODATA specified
#2895, Raise cost of ST_ConvexHull(raster) to 300 for better query plans

Bug Fixes

#2605, armel: _ST_Covers() returns true for point in hole
#2911, Fix output scale on ST_Rescale/ST_Resample/ST_Resize of rasters with scale 1/-1 and offset 0/0.
- Fix crash in ST_Union(raster)
#2704, ST_GeomFromGML() does not work properly with array of gml:pos (Even Roualt)
#2708, updategeometrysrid doesn’t update srid check when schema not specified. Patch from Marc Jansen
#2720, lwpoly_add_ring should update maxrings after realloc
#2759, Fix postgis_restore.pl handling of multiline object comments embedding sql comments
#2774, fix undefined behavior in ptarray_calculate_gbox_geodetic
- Fix potential memory fault in ST_MakeValid
#2784, Fix handling of bogus argument to –with-sfcgal
#2772, Premature memory free in RASTER_getBandPath (ST_BandPath)
#2755, Fix regressions tests against all versions of SFCGAL
#2775, lwline_from_lwmpoint leaks memory
#2802, ST_MapAlgebra checks for valid callback function return value
#2803, ST_MapAlgebra handles no userarg and STRICT callback function
#2834, ST_Estimated_Extent and mixedCase table names (regression bug)
#2845, Bad geometry created from ST_AddPoint
#2870, Binary insert into geography column results geometry being inserted
#2872, make install builds documentation (Greg Troxell)
#2819, find isfinite or replacement on Centos5 / Solaris
#2899, geocode limit 1 not returning best answer (tiger geocoder)
#2903, Unable to compile on FreeBSD
#2927 reverse_geocode not filling in direction prefix (tiger geocoder) get rid of deprecated ST_Line_Locate_Point called

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