PostGIS 1.1.3 Released
The 1.1.3 release includes numerous bug fixes and some new functionality. This release includes standard support for long transactions, which should be useful for a number of client applications.
- NEW Long Transactions support.
 - Can run the regress tests with 'make check' now.
 - New regress test support for loader/dumper.
 - BUGFIX in pgsql2shp successful return code.
 - BUGFIX in shp2pgsql handling of MultiLine WKT.
 - BUGFIX in affine() failing to update bounding box.
 - WKT parser: forbidden construction of multigeometries with EMPTY elements (still supported for GEOMETRYCOLLECTION).
 - Added --with-proj-libdir and --with-geos-libdir configure switches.
 - JDBC:
- Improved regression tests: MultiPoint and scientific ordinates
 - Fixed some minor bugs in jdbc code
 - Added proper accessor functions for all fields in preparation of making those fields private later
 
 - Support for build Tru64 build.
 - Use Jade for generating documentation.
 - NEW DumpRings() function.
 - BUGFIX in distance(poly,poly) giving wrong results.
 - NEW AsHEXEWKB(geom, XDR|NDR) function.
 - Don't link pgsql2shp to more libs then required.
 - Initial support for PostgreSQL 8.2.