PostGIS Development Blog

PostGIS 2.5.2, 2.4.7, 2.3.9 Released

Regina Obe — 2019-03-11T00:00:00+00:00

The PostGIS development team is pleased to provide bug fix 2.5.2, 2.4.7, and 2.3.9 for the 2.5, 2.4, and 2.3 stable branches.

These are the first versions to be able to compile against Proj 6.0.0, You must upgrade to these if you are using Proj 6.

2.5.2 This release supports PostgreSQL 9.3-11 (will compile against PostgreSQL 12, but not pass tests. Use only for pg_upgrade. You are encouraged to use the PostGIS 3.0 unreleased branch with PostgreSQL 12 , which has features specifically designed to take advantage of features new in PostgreSQL 12).

2.4.7 This release supports PostgreSQL 9.3-10.

2.3.9

This release supports PostgreSQL 9.2-10.

View all closed tickets for 2.5.2, 2.4.7, 2.3.9.

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 2.3.8, 2.4.6

Regina Obe — 2018-11-24T00:00:00+00:00

The PostGIS development team is pleased to provide bug fix 2.3.8 and 2.4.6 for the 2.3 and 2.4 stable branches.

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PostGIS 2.2.8 EOL

Regina Obe — 2018-11-22T00:00:00+00:00

The PostGIS development team is pleased to provide bug fix 2.2.8 for the 2.2 stable branch.

This is the End-Of-Life and final release for PostGIS 2.2 series.

We encourage you to upgrade to a newer minor PostGIS version. Refer to our Version compatibility and EOL Policy for details on versions you can upgrade to.

This release supports PostgreSQL 9.1-9.6.

2.2.8

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PostGIS 2.5.1

Regina Obe — 2018-11-18T00:00:00+00:00

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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Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Tom Kazimiers — 2018-11-03T00:00:00+00:00

As a software engineer at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, I work on a collaborative neuron reconstruction and analysis software called CATMAID 1 (screenshot: 3), which is used for neuroscience research. We use PostGIS to represent neurons in a 3D space.

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Vanguard Appraisals

Andy Colson — 2018-11-02T00:00:00+00:00

Vanguard Appraisals is new to the GIS world. In fact, we aren’t really in the GIS world; we just kind of brush up against it. We do mass property appraisal for entire county and city jurisdictions, and we develop software to collect, price and maintain values. We also host assessment data online so that homeowners can search and find property information much simpler from the comfort of their own home. Our software and websites are used in 7 states (IA, IL, MN, MO, NE, ND, SD).

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PostGIS 2.5.0

Regina Obe — 2018-09-23T00:00:00+00:00

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

Regina Obe — 2018-09-16T00:00:00+00:00

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.

PostGIS Patch Release 2.4.5

Paul Ramsey — 2018-09-12T00:00:00+00:00

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.

2.4.5

PostGIS 2.5.0rc1

Regina Obe — 2018-08-19T00:00:00+00:00

The PostGIS development team is pleased to release PostGIS 2.5.0rc1.

This release is a work in progress. Remaining time will be focused on bug fixes and documentation until PostGIS 2.5.0 release. 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 3.7.0rc1 which were released recently.

Best served with PostgreSQL 11beta3 which was recently released.

Changes since PostGIS 2.5.0beta2 release are as follows:

4146, Fix compilation error against Postgres 12 (Raúl Marín).
4147, 4148, Honor SOURCEDATEEPOCH when present (Christoph Berg).

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.

2.5.0rc1