Please post when things are ready and I will give it a go. Mark
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Paragon Corporation <[email protected]> wrote: > Mark, > We'll try to have windows binaries out by Monday and then the stack > installer/builder part probably week after. So those who already installed > and RC just need to overwrite their binaries. Nothing technically has > changed since most of the RC2->production were more on the testing scripts. > > Unfortunately Mark Cave-Ayland is on vacation and I think since this is our > first time doing it, we should wait for him before we push to Stack Builder. > > Oh by the way we just came back from OSCON and will be posting our slides > and data shortly which will showcase some of the speed improvements in 1.4 > and taking advantage of PostgreSQL 8.4 features. Should have those posted > sometime later today. > > Thanks, > Regina > > ------------------------------ > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Mark > Vantzelfde > *Sent:* Friday, July 24, 2009 2:20 PM > *To:* PostGIS Users Discussion > *Subject:* Re: [postgis-users] PostGIS 1.4.0 Released > > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > postgis-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users > > -- Mark Vantzelfde NetMasters, Inc.
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