The 1.0.4 release includes a number of small bug fixes and one large bug fix for memory management when building spatial indexes. Users with very large databases may have experienced out of memory errors prior to this fix.
The 1.0.3 release includes a number of small bug fixes and one large bug fix for bounding box calculation. This bug will affect indexing in rare cases.
A patch release for the 0.9 series has been created. It is available on the download page. BUGFIX in dumper and GeomFromWKB to support 64bit archs Support for postgresql 8.1 Leak plugged in dumper fault-tolerant btree ops BUGFIX in rtree index
The latest maintenance release of PostGIS includes a number of minor fixes: Fault tolerant btree ops Memory Leak fix in pg_error R-Tree index fix Initial support for PostgreSQL 8.1 development version Cleaner build scripts New -I switch for pgsql2shp (auto-build spatial index)
The latest maintenance release of GEOS includes a number of bug fixes and performance improvements: Win32/mingw build support Segfault fix in LinearRing and LineString constructors Segfault fix in Polygonizer XMLTester installed by default XMLTester code cleanup Fixed handling of collection input in GeometryFactory::buildGeometry Added shortcircuit test for Union operation Reduced useless Coordinate copies in CGAlgorithms::isPointInRing() Performance improvements in CGAlgorithms::isOnLine() Other minor performance improvements New Node::isIncidentEdgeInResult() method OverlayOp's PointBuilder performance improvement by reduction of LineIntersector calls Optimizations in Buffer operation Sever BUGFIX in DepthSegmentLT as suggested by Graeme Hiebert
The latest maintenance release of GEOS includes a number of bug fixes for special cases and processing issues discovered since the 2.1.1 release: Segfault fix in Point::isEmpty Mem Leak fix in OffsetCurveBuilder::getRingCurve Bugfix in LineSegment::reverse Added multipolygon buffering test in source/test/testLeaksBig Ported JTS robustness patch for RobustLineIntersector Removed useless Coordinate copies in OverlayOp::mergeZ() Avoided throws by IsValid on invalid input Stricter C++ syntax (math.
Refractions Research is honoured that PostGIS is a finalist in the 2005 VIATeC Technology Awards for Product of the Year! The VIATeC awards celebrate the accomplishments of BC's fastest-growing technology region, and recognise companies, individuals and technologies demonstrating excellence, innovation and commitment to the technology community.
This release includes small bug fixes. The following issues have been resolved: Some incorrect escaping in shp2pgsql 3D computation in length_spheroid Multiple schema support improved Better join selectivity estimates Improved postgis_restore.pl script
After a long series of release candidates, the much anticipated 1.0.0 version of PostGIS has been released. The 1.0.0 version includes substantial changes over the original 0.X series, most importantly a new on-disk format which is both more compact and faster to access. The 1.0.0 version is compatible with PostgreSQL 7.2 and higher, but is most tightly integrated with the PostgreSQL 8.0 and higher releases. New features in 1.
A workshop on PostGIS and Mapserver will be presented by Paul Ramsey and Chris Hodgson at the 2005 Open Source GIS conference. The workshop will cover basic PostGIS, spatial SQL, tuning, and Mapserver tricks. We hope lots of PostGIS users can attend.
