PostGIS 3.1.0alpha2

Jul 18, 2020 release 3.1

The PostGIS Team is pleased to release the second alpha of upcoming PostGIS 3.1.0 release.

Best served with

PostgreSQL 13beta2, GEOS 3.7 or higher is recommended.

ST_MaximumInscribedCircle requires compilation with GEOS 3.9.0 in development to be enabled.

pgRouting 3.1.0 which will also be released soon.

3.1.0alpha2

Details of this release can be found in NEWS file: https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/postgis/postgis/src/tag/3.1.0alpha2/NEWS Which is also included in source tar ball and in this email.

If you come across any issues, feel free to report via our ticket tracker https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis or mailing list with details as described here - https://postgis.net/support/

New Features

#4656, Cast a geojson_text::geometry for implicit GeoJSON ingestion (Raúl Marín)
#4687, Expose GEOS MaximumInscribedCircle (Paul Ramsey)
#4710, ST_ClusterKMeans now works with 3D geometries (Darafei Praliaskouski)

Enhancements

#4675, topology.GetRingEdges now implemented in C (Sandro Santilli)
#4681, ST_GetFaceGeometry: print corruption information (Sandro Santilli)
#4651: ST_Simplify: Don’t copy if nothing is removed (Raúl Marín)
#4657: Avoid De-TOASTing where possible (Paul Ramsey)
#4490, Tweak function costs (Raúl Marín)
#4672, Cache getSRSbySRID and getSRIDbySRS (Raúl Marín)
#4676, Avoid decompressing toasted geometries to read only the header (Raúl Marín) Optimize cast to Postgresql point type (Raúl Marín)
#4620, Update internal wagyu to 0.5.0 (Raúl Marín)
#4623, Optimize varlena returning functions (Raúl Marín)
#4677, Share gserialized objects between different cache types (Raúl Marín)
Fix compilation with MSVC compiler / Standardize shebangs (Loïc Bartoletti)

Bug fixes

#4652, Fix several memory related bugs in ST_GeomFromGML (Raúl Marín)
#4661, Fix access to spatial_ref_sys with a non default schema (Raúl Marín)
#4670, ST_AddPoint: Fix bug when a positive position is requested (Raúl Marín)
#4699, crash on null input to ST_Union(raster, otherarg) (Jaime Casanova, 2ndQuadrant)
#4716, Fix several issues with pkg-config in the configure script (Raúl Marín)