PostGIS 2.5.4

The PostGIS Team is pleased to release PostGIS 2.5.4.

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. For security issues, send reports to security@postgis.net.

Bug Fixes and Enchantments

  • 4480, Geography Distance inconsistent with Intersects (Paul Ramsey)
  • 4481, Improve libprotobuf detection for old systems (Paul Ramsey)
  • 4475, Avoid reading into empty ptarray (Paul Ramsey)
  • 4492, Fix ST_Simplify ignoring the value of the 3rd parameter (Raúl Marín)
  • 4494, Fix ST_Simplify output having an outdated bbox (Raúl Marín)
  • 4493, Fix ST_RemoveRepeatedPoints output having an outdated bbox (Raúl Marín)
  • 4495, Fix ST_SnapToGrid output having an outdated bbox (Raúl Marín)
  • 4496, Make ST_Simplify(TRIANGLE) collapse if requested (Raúl Marín)
  • 4506, Remove tolerance in point-in-ring tests (Paul Ramsey)
  • 4338, Fix Census block level data (tabblock table) loading (Regina Obe)
  • 4519, Fix getSRIDbySRS crash (Raúl Marín)
  • 4517, Documentation error ST_EndPoint (Samuel Spurling)
  • 4530, Avoid bogus AddRasterConstraint in upgrade tests (Sandro Santilli)
  • 4534, Fix leak in lwcurvepoly_from_wkb_state (Raúl Marín)
  • 4536, Fix leak in lwcollection_from_wkb_state (Raúl Marín)
  • 4537, Fix leak in WKT collection parser (Raúl Marín)
  • 4547, Fix AddRasterConstraints handling of empty tables (Sandro Santilli)
  • 4549, Fix schema qualification of internal types (Raúl Marín)
  • 4546, Fix PLPGSQL functions missing the schema qualification (Raúl Marín)
  • 4588, Fix update when ST_union(geometry) doesn't exist (Raúl Marín)
  • 4599, ST_AddPoint: Accept -1 as a valid position (Raúl Marín)
  • 4605, Fix postgis_upgrade.pl with PostgreSQL 12 (Matti Linnanvuori)
  • 4621, Prevent stack overflow when parsing WKB (Raúl Marín)
  • 4626, Support pkg-config for libxml2 (Bas Couwenberg)
  • 4646, Fix gserialized_cmp incorrect comparison (dkvash)