2.2.0 Released!

Author: Paul Ramsey 2015/10/07 in news ( release, 2.2, 2.2.0 )

PostGIS 2.2.0 is released! Over the last two years a number of interesting new features have been added, such as:

True nearest-neighbor searching for all geometry and geography types
New volumetric geometry support, including ST_3DDifference, ST_3DUnion and more
Temporal data model support and functions like ST_ClosestPointOfApproach to support temporal query
Spatial clustering functions ST_ClusterIntersecting and ST_ClusterWithin
Subdividing large geometries with ST_Subdivide
Fast box clipping with ST_ClipByBox2D
In-database raster processing with ST_Retile and ST_CreateOverview.html
New high-speed native code address standardizer
Visvalingam-Whyatt geometry simplification with ST_SimplifyVW
Support for compressed “tiny well-known binary” format with ST_AsTWKB and ST_GeomFromTWKB

See the full list of changes in the news file and please report bugs that you find in the release.

Binary packages will appear in repositories over the coming weeks as packagers roll out builds.

View all closed tickets for 2.2.0.

PostGIS 2.5.1

The PostGIS development team is pleased to provide bug fix 2.5.1 for the 2.5 stable branch.

Although this release will work for PostgreSQL 9.4 thru PostgreSQL 11, to take full advantage of what PostGIS 2.5 offers, you should be running PostgreSQL 11 and GEOS 3.7.0.

Best served with PostgreSQL 11.1 and pgRouting 2.6.1.

WARNING: If compiling with PostgreSQL+JIT, LLVM >= 6 is required Supported PostgreSQL versions for this release are: PostgreSQL 9.4 - PostgreSQL 11 GEOS >= 3.5

2.5.1

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PostGIS 2.5.0

The PostGIS development team is pleased to release PostGIS 2.5.0.

Although this release will work for PostgreSQL 9.4 and above, to take full advantage of what PostGIS 2.5 offers, you should be running PostgreSQL 11beta4+ and GEOS 3.7.0 which were released recently.

Best served with PostgreSQL 11 beta4 and pgRouting 2.6.1.

WARNING: If compiling with PostgreSQL+JIT, LLVM >= 6 is required Supported PostgreSQL versions for this release are: PostgreSQL 9.4 - PostgreSQL 12 (in development) GEOS >= 3.5

2.5.0

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PostGIS 2.5.0rc2

The PostGIS development team is pleased to release PostGIS 2.5.0rc2.

Although this release will work for PostgreSQL 9.4 and above, to take full advantage of what PostGIS 2.5 offers, you should be running PostgreSQL 11beta3+ and GEOS 3.7.0 which were released recently.

Best served with PostgreSQL 11beta3.

WARNING: If compiling with PostgreSQL 11+JIT, LLVM >= 6 is required

2.5.0rc2

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Changes since PostGIS 2.5.0rc1 release are as follows:

4162, ST_DWithin documentation examples for storing geometry and radius in table (Darafei Praliaskouski, github user Boscop).
4163, MVT: Fix resource leak when the first geometry is NULL (Raúl Marín)
4172, Fix memory leak in lwgeom_offsetcurve (Raúl Marín)
4164, Parse error on incorrectly nested GeoJSON input (Paul Ramsey)
4176, ST_Intersects supports GEOMETRYCOLLECTION (Darafei Praliaskouski)
4177, Postgres 12 disallows variable length arrays in C (Laurenz Albe)
4160, Use qualified names in topology extension install (Raúl Marín)
4180, installed liblwgeom includes sometimes getting used instead of source ones (Regina Obe)

View all closed tickets for 2.5.0.

After installing the binaries or after running pg_upgrade, make sure to do:

ALTER EXTENSION postgis UPDATE;

— if you use the other extensions packaged with postgis — make sure to upgrade those as well

ALTER EXTENSION postgis_sfcgal UPDATE;
ALTER EXTENSION postgis_topology UPDATE;
ALTER EXTENSION postgis_tiger_geocoder UPDATE;

If you use legacy.sql or legacy_minimal.sql, make sure to rerun the version packaged with these releases.

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