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PostGIS 2.4.0rc3 Released

The PostGIS development team is pleased to announce the release of PostGIS 2.4.0rc3. Best served with PostgreSQL 10rc1 and pgRouting 2.5.0. See the full list of changes in the news file.

This will be the final rc before we have our 2.4.0 release.

We encourage everyone to test and in particular package maintainers to ensure no surprises at final release time.

IMPORTANT NOTES

If you are upgrading from an existing PostGIS install, make sure after installing PostGIS binaries to do.

ALTER EXTENSION postgis UPDATE;

– if you have additional postgishy extensions below upgrade them too

ALTER EXTENSION postgis_sfcgal UPDATE;
ALTER EXTENSION postgis_topology UPDATE;
ALTER EXTENSION postgis_tiger_geocoder UPDATE;
ALTER EXTENSION pgrouting UPDATE;
  • Source Download
  • html doc download (this version includes Japanese, German, Portugese and Korean single html files)
  • pdf doc download
  • epub doc download
  • pgsql help files for non-english languages: [ja]({{ postgis.dev_download }}/pgsql-help-2.4-ja.tar.gz), [de]({{ postgis.dev_download }}/pgsql-help-2.4-de.tar.gz), [br]({{ postgis.dev_download }}/pgsql-help-2.4-br.tar.gz), [ko_KR]({{ postgis.dev_download }}/pgsql-help-2.4-ko_KR.tar.gz)
  • ChangeLog

Full News

Changes since PostGIS 2.4.0rc2 release

  • #3781 st_contains cannot handle curvepolygon / compoundcurve consisting of only straight lines
  • #3866 server crashing from large values in ST_AsTWKB
  • #3818 Allow triangles unclosed in M to be WKT parsed
  • several packaging changes regarding checking trailing blanks