PostGIS 3.0.0alpha1

Author: Regina Obe 2019/05/26 in news ( release, 3, 3.0.0alpha1 )

The PostGIS development team is pleased to release PostGIS 3.0.0alpha1.

This release works with PostgreSQL 9.5-12beta1 and GEOS >= 3.6

Best served with PostgreSQL 12beta1.

3.0.0alpha1

Note that a major change in 3.0 is that the raster functionality has been broken out as a separate extension. If you are upgrading from a previous edition, do the following:

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

ALTER EXTENSION postgis UPDATE;
-- this next step repackages raster in its own extension
-- and upgrades all your other related postgis extension
SELECT PostGIS_Extensions_Upgrade();
 
--if you don't use raster, you can do
DROP EXTENSION postgis_raster;

— New users

CREATE EXTENSION postgis;
CREATE EXTENSION postgis_raster;
CREATE EXTENSION postgis_topology;
CREATE EXTENSION postgis_tiger_geocoder;

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

PostGIS 3.2.0alpha1 Released

The PostGIS Team is pleased to release the first alpha of the upcoming PostGIS 3.2.0 release.

Best served with PostgreSQL 14 beta3. This version of PostGIS utilizes the faster GiST building support API introduced in PostgreSQL 14. If compiled with the in-development GEOS 3.10dev you can take advantage of improvements in ST_MakeValid. This release also includes many additional functions and improvements for postgis_raster and postgis_topology extensions.

PostGIS 3.1.4, 3.0.4 Released

The PostGIS development team is pleased to provide bug fix and performance enhancements 3.1.4 and 3.0.4 for the 3.1, 3.0 stable branches.

3.1.4 This release supports PostgreSQL 9.6-14.

3.0.4 This release works with PostgreSQL 9.5-13 and GEOS >= 3.6 Designed to take advantage of features in PostgreSQL 12+ and Proj 6+

View all closed tickets for 3.1.4, 3.0.4.

After installing the binaries or after running pg_upgrade:

For PostGIS 3.1, 3.0, 2.5 do below which will upgrade all your postgis extensions.

SELECT postgis_extensions_upgrade();

For PostGIS 2.4 and below 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.

PostGIS 3.1.3

The PostGIS Team is pleased to release PostGIS 3.1.3! Best Served with PostgreSQL 14 beta2.

This release is a bug fix release, addressing issues found in the previous 3.1 release.

#4929, Fix missing error from GetRingEdges when invoked with unexistent topology or edge (Sandro Santilli)
#4927, Fix PostgreSQL 14 compile FuncnameGetCandidates changes needed to compile against PostgreSQL 14 beta2 or higher (Regina Obe, Julien Rouhaud)

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