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PostGIS 2.2.8

The PostGIS development team is pleased to provide bug fix 2.2.8 for the 2.2 stable branch.

This is the End-Of-Life and final release for PostGIS 2.2 series.

We encourage you to upgrade to a newer minor PostGIS version. Refer to our Version compatibility and EOL Policy for details on versions you can upgrade to.

This release supports PostgreSQL 9.1-9.6.

2.2.8

Bug fixes

  • 2985, Avoid array overflow in ANALYZE (Paul Ramsey)
  • 4160, Use qualified names in topology extension install (Raúl Marín)
  • 4189, Fix undefined behaviour in SADFWrite (Raúl Marín)
  • 4191, Fix undefined behaviour in ptarray_clone_deep (Raúl Marín)
  • 4020, Fix leftovers in topology upgrade from 2.1 (Sandro Santilli)
  • 4203, Fix build with GNU Make 4.1 (Sandro Santilli)
  • 4206, Replace getrelid with rt_fetch (getrelid has been deprecated since PostgreSQL 9.1) (Laurenz Albe)
  • 3457, Fix raster envelope shortcut in ST_Clip (Sai-bot)
  • 4326, Allocate enough memory in gidx_to_string (Raúl Marín)
  • 4249, Fix undefined behaviour in raster intersection (Raúl Marín)

View all closed tickets for 2.2.8.

After installing the binaries or after running pg_upgrade, make sure to do:

ALTER EXTENSION postgis UPDATE;

– if you use the other extensions packaged with postgis – make sure to upgrade those as well

ALTER EXTENSION postgis_sfcgal UPDATE;
ALTER EXTENSION postgis_topology UPDATE;
ALTER EXTENSION postgis_tiger_geocoder UPDATE;

If you use legacy.sql or legacy_minimal.sql, make sure to rerun the version packaged with these releases.