PostGIS 2.1.6 Released

Mar 20, 2015 release 2.1

The 2.1.6 release of PostGIS is now available.

The PostGIS development team is happy to release patch for PostGIS 2.1, the 2.1.6 release. As befits a patch release, the focus is on bugs, breakages, and performance issues. Users with large tables of points will want to priorize this patch, for substantial (~50%) disk space savings.

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Enhancements

#3000, Ensure edge splitting and healing algorithms use indexes
#3048, Speed up geometry simplification (J.Santana @ CartoDB)
#3050, Speep up geometry type reading (J.Santana @ CartoDB)

Bug Fixes

#2941, allow geography columns with SRID other than 4326
#3069, small objects getting inappropriately fluffed up w/ boxes
#3068, Have postgis_typmod_dims return NULL for unconstrained dims
#3061, Allow duplicate points in JSON, GML, GML ST_GeomFrom* functions
#3058, Fix ND-GiST picksplit method to split on the best plane
#3052, Make operators <-> and <#> available for PostgreSQL < 9.1
#3045, Fix dimensionality confusion in &&& operator
#3016, Allow unregistering layers of corrupted topologies
#3015, Avoid exceptions from TopologySummary
#3020, ST_AddBand out-db bug where height using width value
#3031, Allow restore of Geometry(Point) tables dumped with empties in them

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