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PostGIS 1.5.1 Release

The 1.5.1 release of PostGIS is now available. This is a minor release addressing a few issues that have been filed since the 1.5.0 release.

  • Fix to allow dumping table with invalid geometries
  • Fixes to ST_SetPoint, ST_AddPoint, ST_RemovePoint, ST_AsGML, and ST_Line_Substring
  • Fixes for geography features crossing the date line

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PostGIS 1.5.0 Release

The 1.5.0 release of PostGIS is now available. This is a major release adding a significant number of new features including:

  • New "geography" type for managing geodetic (lat/lon) data
  • Performance-enhanced distance calculations
  • GML and KML format readers
  • Improved shape loading GUI
  • And more!

PostGIS 1.4.1 Release

The 1.4.1 release of PostGIS is now available. This is a minor release addressing a few issues that have been filed since the 1.4.0 release.

  • Bug fixes for ST_LineCrossingDirection, ST_Union, ST_MakeLine
  • Improved parsing for higher dimensional geometries
  • Addressed memory issues with ST_As* functions
  • Corrected inconsistent results when using the ~= operator

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PostGIS 1.4.0 Release

The 1.4.0 release of PostGIS is now available. This is a significant release including many performance enhancements, bug fixes, improved internal testing system, more detailed documentation.

  • API Stability - new policies surrounding minor releases
  • Support for PostgreSQL 8.4
  • New methods - ST_GeoHash, ST_LineCrossingDirection, ST_AsGeoJSON, ST_MinimumBoundingCircle to name a few
  • Significant performance improvements for many spatial operations, including ST_Union, ST_Intersects, ST_Contains, and ST_Within
  • Vastly improved documentation and reference manual
  • Improved build system, library structure, debugging framework, unit testing
  • More stable support for CIRCULARSTRING, COMPOUNDCURVE and CURVEPOLYGON

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PostGIS 1.3.6 Release

The 1.3.6 release of PostGIS is now available. This release includes several bug fixes and enhancements

  • Improved PostgreSQL 8.4 compile support
  • New .prj file support with pgsql2shp
  • Documentation improvements
  • Windows Vista memory bug fix
  • Bug fixes with EWKB, shp2pgsql, pgsql2shp, and probe_geometry_columns

PostGIS 1.3.4 Release

The 1.3.4 release of PostGIS is now available. This release includes many bug fixes, and some useful feature enhancements.

  • ST_AsGeoJSON() function
  • PostgreSQL 8.4 support
  • Performance improvements with GEOS 3.1
  • Memory leak fixes
  • Documentation improvements
  • More reliable handling of curve types

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PostGIS 1.3.3 Release

The 1.3.3 release of PostGIS is now available. This release includes bug fixes and some minor feature enhancements.

  • Improvements in the shp2pgsql/pgsql2shp utilities
    • Better windows support
    • DBF-only loading support
    • Support for OS/X 10.5
    • Output for Date types in DBF
  • New function ST_SimplifyPreserveTopology( geometry, float8) to simplify polygons without creating invalid geometry
  • KML support updates (from Eduin Carillo)
  • SVG support updates (from Marco Hugentobler)