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PostGIS 3.7.0beta1

release 3.7

The PostGIS Team is pleased to release PostGIS 3.7.0beta1! Best Served with PostgreSQL 19 Beta2 and GEOS 3.15.0beta2.

This version requires PostgreSQL 14 - 19beta2, GEOS 3.10 or higher, and Proj 6.1+. To take advantage of all features, GEOS 3.15+ is needed. To take advantage of all SFCGAL features SFCGAL 2.3.0+ is needed.

This release contains fixes and enhancements since 3.7.0alpha1 release.

3.7.0beta1

This release is an alpha of a major release, it includes bug fixes since PostGIS 3.7.4 and new features.

Upgrading

After installing the binaries or after running pg_upgrade:

For PostGIS 3 series do below which will upgrade all your postgis extensions.

SELECT postgis_extensions_upgrade();

For PostGIS 2 series:

ALTER EXTENSION postgis UPDATE;
SELECT postgis_extensions_upgrade();
SELECT postgis_extensions_upgrade();

Bug Fixes

  • GH-1160, Adapt topology, regression expectations, and manual examples to GEOS 3.15 overlay line merging (Paul Ramsey, Darafei Praliaskouski)
  • #6093, Fix SQL generation on ppc64el when NURBS comments are preprocessed with AltiVec vector macros (Darafei Praliaskouski)
  • #6094, [upgrade] Avoid legacy string literal warnings in downgrade checks with standard_conforming_strings off (Darafei Praliaskouski)
  • #5423, Use a DTD-free expanded DocBook input for EPUB builds so out-of-tree builds do not need dbtoepub entity path support (Darafei Praliaskouski)
  • GH-898, Fix ST_DFullyWithin indexed plans and large-coordinate ring-orientation precision regressions (Darafei Praliaskouski)
  • GH-1143, [topology] Clean up TopoRingIsCCW early returns (Darafei Praliaskouski)
  • GH-1146, Reset interrupt callbacks when PostgreSQL clears cancellation state (Darafei Praliaskouski)
  • GH-1147, [doc] Fix localized EPUB help target (Darafei Praliaskouski)
  • GH-1148, [utils] Create upgrade-check tempdir safely (Darafei Praliaskouski)
  • GH-1149, [topology] Fix corrupt column fallback variables (Darafei Praliaskouski)
  • GH-1150, Free polygon orientation inputs in ST_IsPolygonCW/CCW (Darafei Praliaskouski)
  • GH-1153, [topology] Preserve large ids from edge wrappers (Darafei Praliaskouski)
  • GH-1139, [topology] Preserve large edge ids from vertex-segment proximity helper (Darafei Praliaskouski)
  • GH-1140, [liblwgeom] Cap NURBS WKT knot multiplicity (Darafei Praliaskouski)
  • GH-1141, [liblwgeom] Reject overflowing NURBS linearization segment counts (Darafei Praliaskouski)
  • GH-1151, [topology] Preserve exact zero tolerance in TopoGeometry construction (Darafei Praliaskouski)
  • GH-1152, [topology] Enforce max edge limits from reported TopoGeo_AddLinestring edge creation (Darafei Praliaskouski)
  • GH-1154, [topology] Quote TotalTopologySize catalog regclasses safely (Darafei Praliaskouski)
  • #6092, [fuzzingengine] fuzzingengine doesn’t use hardening CPPFLAGS (Bas Couwenberg)

Enhancements

  • #1986, ST_GeomFromGML support for GML ArcString and curved polygon rings (Darafei Praliaskouski)
  • GH-1161, Render manual geometry examples as build-time SVG in HTML and PDF (Darafei Praliaskouski)
  • #4749, Use point-in-polygon predicate fast paths for point-only GeometryCollections, including ST_Disjoint (Darafei Praliaskouski)
  • #3676, Mark geometry and geography btree comparison support functions as leakproof (Darafei Praliaskouski)
  • GH-875, Allow ST_OrderingEquals joins to use hash and merge join plans (Darafei Praliaskouski)
  • #2557, #2805, Document ST_MapAlgebra callback argument signatures and return semantics (Darafei Praliaskouski)
  • #1168, [raster] Support curved geometry inputs in ST_AsRaster (Darafei Praliaskouski)

If you come across any issues, feel free to report via our ticket tracker or mailing list with details

View all tickets for 3.7.0beta1 milestone.