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 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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Changelog

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.

PostGIS Patch Release 2.4.5

The PostGIS development team is pleased to provide bug fix 2.4.5 for the 2.4 stable branch.

View all closed tickets for 2.4.5.

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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