The PostGIS Project Steering Committee is proud to announce the official release of PostGIS 1.5.2 after extensive prodding from the PostGIS community of packagers and users (Thanks Devrim : ) )
The source tar ball can be downloaded from: http://www.postgis.org/download/ This is a minor release addressing a few issues that have been filed since the 1.5.1 release in addition to fixes that allow it to compile seamlessly against PostgreSQL 9.0. Bug Fixes * Loader: fix handling of empty (0-verticed) geometries in shapefiles. (Sandro Santilli) * #536, Geography ST_Intersects, ST_Covers, ST_CoveredBy and Geometry ST_Equals not using spatial index (Regina Obe, Nicklas Avén) * #573, Improvement to ST_Contains geography * Loader: Add support for command-q shutdown in Mac GTK build (Paul Ramsey) * #393, Loader: Add temporary patch for large DBF files (Maxime Guillaud, Paul Ramsey) * #507, Fix wrong OGC URN in GeoJSON and GML output (Olivier Courtin) * spatial_ref_sys.sql: Add datum conversion for projection SRID 3021 (Paul Ramsey) * Geography: remove crash for case when all geographies are out of the estimate (Paul Ramsey) * #469, Fix for array_aggregation error (Greg Stark, Paul Ramsey) * #532, Temporary geography tables showing up in other user sessions (Paul Ramsey) * #562, ST_Dwithin errors for large geographies (Paul Ramsey) * #513, shape loading GUI tries to make spatial index when loading DBF only mode (Paul Ramsey) * #527, shape loading GUI should always append log messages (Mark Cave-Ayland) * #504, shp2pgsql should rename xmin/xmax fields (Sandro Santilli) * #458, postgis_comments being installed in contrib instead of version folder (Mark Cave-Ayland) * #474, Analyzing a table with geography column crashes server (Paul Ramsey) * #581, LWGEOM-expand produces inconsistent results (Mark Cave-Ayland) * #471, DocBook dtd errors (Olivier Courtin) * Fix further build issues against PostgreSQL 9.0 (Mark Cave-Ayland) * #572, Password whitespace for Shape File to PostGIS Import not supported (Mark Cave-Ayland) * shp2pgsql: "-w" produces invalid WKT for MULTI* objects. (Mark Cave-Ayland) Enhancement * #513, Add dbf filter to shp2pgsql-gui and allow uploading dbf only (Paul Ramsey) Windows builds will be out later this week or early next and also available on Stackbuilder. We are also working on 64-bit windows build for PostgreSQL 9.0 which we hope to have soon. Thanks from the loving PostGIS PSC, Kevin, Mark, Paul and Regina _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list [email protected] http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
