PostGIS 2.0.5 Released

The 2.0.5 release of PostGIS is now available.

The PostGIS development team is happy to release patch for PostGIS 2.0, the 2.0.5 release. As befits a patch release, the focus is on bugs and breakages.

Best served with a bottle of GEOS 3.3.9.

<https://download.osgeo.org/postgis/source/postgis-2.0.5.tar.gz>

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Important Change

• The raster license has been changed from GPL v3+ to v2+, to make PostGIS have a more consistent license across the full code base.

Bug Fixes

• #2494, avoid memcpy in GIST index
• #2502, Fix postgis_topology_scripts_installed() install schema
• #2504, Fix segfault on bogus pgsql2shp call
• #2528, Fix memory leak in ST_Split / lwline_split_by_line
• #2532, Add missing raster/geometry commutator operators
• #2533, Remove duplicated signatures
• #2552, Fix NULL raster handling in ST_AsPNG, ST_AsTIFF and ST_AsJPEG
• #2555, Fix parsing issue of range arguments of ST_Reclass
• #2589, Remove use of unnecessary void pointers
• #2607, Cannot open more than 1024 out-db files in process
• #2610, Ensure face splitting algorithm uses the edge index
• #2619, Empty ring array in GeoJSON polygon causes crash
• #2638, Geography distance on M geometries sometimes wrong

View all [closed tickets][1]. [1]:http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/query?status=closed&groupdesc=1&group=priority&milestone=PostGIS+2.0.5&order=priority