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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

PostGIS 2.5.0beta2

Regina Obe — 2018-08-11T00:00:00+00:00

The PostGIS development team is pleased to release PostGIS 2.5.0beta2.

Best served with PostgreSQL 11beta3 which was recently released.

Changes since PostGIS 2.5.0beta1 release are as follows:

4115, Fix a bug that created MVTs with incorrect property values under parallel plans (Raúl Marín).
4120, ST_AsMVTGeom: Clip using tile coordinates (Raúl Marín).
4132, ST_Intersection on Raster now works without throwing TopologyException (Vinícius A.B. Schmidt, Darafei Praliaskouski)
4109, Fix WKT parser accepting and interpreting numbers with multiple dots (Raúl Marín, Paul Ramsey)
4140, Use user-provided CFLAGS in address standardizer and the topology module (Raúl Marín)
4143, Fix backend crash when ST_OffsetCurve fails (Dan Baston)
4145, Speedup MVT column parsing (Raúl Marín)

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.

2.5.0beta2

PostGIS 2.5.0beta1

Regina Obe — 2018-07-03T00:00:00+00:00

The PostGIS development team is pleased to release PostGIS 2.5.0beta1.

This release is a work in progress. No more api changes will be made from this point on before 2.5.0 release. Remaining time will be focused on bug fixes and documentation for the new functionality and performance enhancements under the covers. Although this release will work for PostgreSQL 9.4 and above, to take full advantage of what PostGIS 2.5 will offer, you should be running PostgreSQL 11beta2+ and GEOS 3.7.0beta1 which were released recently.

Best served with PostgreSQL 11beta2 which was recently released.

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.

2.5.0beta1

PostGIS 2.5.0alpha

Regina Obe — 2018-05-28T00:00:00+00:00

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

This release is a work in progress, and some features are still slated to be added. Although this release will work for PostgreSQL 9.4 and above, to take full advantage of what PostGIS 2.5 will offer, you should be running PostgreSQL 11beta+.

Best served with PostgreSQL 11beta which was recently released.

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.

2.5.0alpha

PostGIS Patch Releases 2.2.7, 2.3.7, and 2.4.4

Regina Obe — 2018-04-06T00:00:00+00:00

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

Regina Obe — 2018-01-17T00:00:00+00:00

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

Paul Ramsey — 2017-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

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

2.3.5

2.4.2