Thank you! On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Paul Ramsey <[email protected]> wrote:
> July 24, 2009 > > The PostGIS development team has, after a long period of meditation > and soul searching, released version 1.4.0 of the spatial data > extension for PostgreSQL. > > http://postgis.refractions.net/download/postgis-1.4.0.tar.gz > > This new version of PostGIS includes substantial performance > enhancements, more detailed reference documentation, new output > formats (GeoJSON) and an improved internal testing system. PostGIS 1.4 > also supports the recent PostgreSQL 8.4 release. > > Thanks to everyone who helped by testing during the release candidate > process! > > Your PostGIS Team > > -- Detailed PostGIS 1.4 Release Notes -- > > - As of the 1.4 release series, the public API of PostGIS will not > change during minor releases. > > - Compatibility > - The versions below are the *minimum* requirements for PostGIS 1.4 > - PostgreSQL 8.2 and higher on all platforms > - GEOS 3.0 and higher only > - PROJ4 4.5 and higher only > > - New Features > - ST_Union() uses high-speed cascaded union when compiled against > GEOS 3.1+ (Paul Ramsey) > - ST_ContainsProperly() requires GEOS 3.1+ > - ST_Intersects(), ST_Contains(), ST_Within() use high-speed cached > prepared geometry against GEOS 3.1+ (Paul Ramsey) > - Vastly improved documentation and reference manual > (Regina Obe & Kevin Neufeld) > - Figures and diagram examples in the reference manual (Kevin Neufeld) > - ST_IsValidReason() returns readable explanations for validity > failures (Paul Ramsey) > - ST_GeoHash() returns a geohash.org signature for geometries > (Paul Ramsey) > - GTK+ multi-platform GUI for shape file loading (Paul Ramsey) > - ST_LineCrossingDirection() returns crossing directions (Paul Ramsey) > - ST_LocateBetweenElevations() returns sub-string based on Z-ordinate. > (Paul Ramsey) > - Geometry parser returns explicit error message about location of > syntax errors (Mark Cave-Ayland) > - ST_AsGeoJSON() return JSON formatted > - Populate_Geometry_Columns() -- automatically add records to > geometry_columns for TABLES and VIEWS (Kevin Neufeld) > - ST_MinimumBoundingCircle() -- returns the smallest circle > polygon that can encompass a geometry (Bruce Rindahl) > > - Enhancements > - Core geometry system moved into independent library, liblwgeom. > (Mark Cave-Ayland) > - New build system uses PostgreSQL "pgxs" build bootstrapper. > (Mark Cave-Ayland) > - Debugging framework formalized and simplified. (Mark Cave-Ayland) > - All build-time #defines generated at configure time and placed in > headers for easier cross-platform support (Mark Cave-Ayland) > - Logging framework formalized and simplified (Mark Cave-Ayland) > - Expanded and more stable support for CIRCULARSTRING, > COMPOUNDCURVE and CURVEPOLYGON, better parsing, > wider support in functions (Mark Leslie & Mark Cave-Ayland) > - Improved support for OpenSolaris builds (Paul Ramsey) > - Improved support for MSVC builds (Mateusz Loskot) > - Updated KML support (Olivier Courtin) > - Unit testing framework for liblwgeom (Paul Ramsey) > - New testing framework to comprehensively exercise every > PostGIS function (Regine Obe) > - Performance improvements to all geometry aggregate > functions (Paul Ramsey) > - Support for the upcoming PostgreSQL 8.4 (Mark Cave-Ayland, > Talha Bin Rizwan) > - Shp2pgsql and pgsql2shp re-worked to depend on > the common parsing/unparsing code in liblwgeom (Mark Cave-Ayland) > - Use of PDF DbLatex to build PDF docs and preliminary > instructions for build (Jean David Techer) > - Automated User documentation build (PDF and HTML) and > Developer Doxygen Documentation (Kevin Neufeld) > - Automated build of document images using ImageMagick > from WKT geometry text files (Kevin Neufeld) > - More attractive CSS for HTML documentation > (Dane Springmeyer) > - Bug fixes > - > http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/query?status=closed&milestone=postgis+1.4.0&order=priority > _______________________________________________ > postgis-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users > -- Mark Vantzelfde NetMasters, Inc.
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