PostGIS 2.4.0rc1 Released

Author: Regina Obe 2017/09/13 in news ( release, 2.4, 2.4.0rc1 )

The PostGIS development team is pleased to announce the release of PostGIS 2.4.0rc1. Best served with PostgreSQL 10beta4 or rc1 which is coming soon and pgRouting 2.5.0rc 2.5.0 release is eminent. See the full list of changes in the news file.

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

IMPORTANT NOTES

If you are upgrading from an existing PostGIS install, make sure after installing PostGIS 2.4.0rc1 binaries to do.

ALTER EXTENSION postgis UPDATE;

— if you have additional postgishy extensions below upgrade them too

ALTER EXTENSION postgis_sfcgal UPDATE;
ALTER EXTENSION postgis_topology UPDATE;
ALTER EXTENSION postgis_tiger_geocoder UPDATE;
--pgRouting 2.5.0 is imminent
ALTER EXTENSION pgrouting UPDATE;

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 protobuf 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 probably not be released before PostGIS 2.4.0 is out.

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Breaking Changes since PostGIS 2.4.0beta1 release

B-Tree index operators < = > changed to provide better spatial locality on sorting and have expected behavior on GROUP BY. If you have btree index for geometry or geography, you need to REINDEX it, or review if it was created by accident and needs to be replaced with GiST index. If your code relies on old left-to-right box compare ordering, update it to use << >> operators.
ST_AsMVT aggregate now overloaded and arg order changed. Check your code if you are already using this function.
STDumpPoints removed, was no longer needed after PostGIS 2.1.0 when ST_DumpPoints got reimplemented in C

PostGIS Patch Releases 2.2.7, 2.3.7, and 2.4.4

The PostGIS development team is pleased to provide bug fix release 2.2.7, 2.3.7 and 2.4.4 for the 2.2, 2.3, and 2.4 stable branches.

Please note that PostGIS 2.2 is reaching end-of-life and there will be one more patch release later in the year for it. If you have not upgraded to at least PostGIS 2.3, we encourage you do so before we discontinue support for PostGIS 2.2.

View all closed tickets for 2.4.4, 2.3.7, 2.2.7.

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.

2.2.7

2.3.7

2.4.4

PostGIS Patch Releases 2.3.6 and 2.4.3

The PostGIS development team is pleased to provide bug fix release 2.3.6 and 2.4.3 for the 2.3 and 2.4 stable branches.

Key fixes in these releases are Brin upgrade, ST_Transform schema qualification to fix issues with restore, foreign table, and materialized view use, ClusterKMeans and encoded polyline fixes.

View all closed tickets for 2.4.3 and 2.3.6.

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.

2.3.6

2.4.3

PostGIS Patch Releases

The PostGIS development team has uploaded bug fix releases for the 2.3 and 2.4 stable branches.

2.3.5

2.4.2

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