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Release date: 2005/07/04
Contains a few bug fixes and improvements.
If you are upgrading from release 1.0.0RC6 or up you DO NOT need a dump/reload.
Upgrading from older releases requires a dump/reload. See the upgrading chapter for more informations.
Fault tolerant btree ops
Memory leak plugged in pg_error
Rtree index fix
Cleaner build scripts (avoided mix of CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS)
Release date: 2005/05/24
Contains a few bug fixes and some improvements.
If you are upgrading from release 1.0.0RC6 or up you DO NOT need a dump/reload.
Upgrading from older releases requires a dump/reload. See the upgrading chapter for more informations.
BUGFIX in 3d computation of lenght_spheroid()
BUGFIX in join selectivity estimator
BUGFIX in shp2pgql escape functions
better support for concurrent postgis in multiple schemas
documentation fixes
jdbc2: compile with "-target 1.2 -source 1.2" by default
NEW -k switch for pgsql2shp
NEW support for custom createdb options in postgis_restore.pl
BUGFIX in pgsql2shp attribute names unicity enforcement
BUGFIX in Paris projections definitions
postgis_restore.pl cleanups
Release date: 2005/04/19
Final 1.0.0 release. Contains a few bug fixes, some improvements in the loader (most notably support for older postgis versions), and more docs.
If you are upgrading from release 1.0.0RC6 you DO NOT need a dump/reload.
Upgrading from any other precedent release requires a dump/reload. See the upgrading chapter for more informations.
BUGFIX in transform() releasing random memory address
BUGFIX in force_3dm() allocating less memory then required
BUGFIX in join selectivity estimator (defaults, leaks, tuplecount, sd)
BUGFIX in shp2pgsql escape of values starting with tab or single-quote
NEW manual pages for loader/dumper
NEW shp2pgsql support for old (HWGEOM) postgis versions
NEW -p (prepare) flag for shp2pgsql
NEW manual chapter about OGC compliancy enforcement
NEW autoconf support for JTS lib
BUGFIX in estimator testers (support for LWGEOM and schema parsing)
Release date: 2005/03/30
Sixth release candidate for 1.0.0. Contains a few bug fixes and cleanups.
You need a dump/reload to upgrade from precedent releases. See the upgrading chapter for more informations.
Release date: 2005/03/25
Fifth release candidate for 1.0.0. Contains a few bug fixes and a improvements.
If you are upgrading from release 1.0.0RC4 you DO NOT need a dump/reload.
Upgrading from any other precedent release requires a dump/reload. See the upgrading chapter for more informations.
BUGFIX (segfaulting) in box3d computation (yes, another!).
BUGFIX (segfaulting) in estimated_extent().
Release date: 2005/03/18
Fourth release candidate for 1.0.0. Contains bug fixes and a few improvements.
You need a dump/reload to upgrade from precedent releases. See the upgrading chapter for more informations.
BUGFIX (segfaulting) in geom_accum().
BUGFIX in 64bit architectures support.
BUGFIX in box3d computation function with collections.
NEW subselects support in selectivity estimator.
Early return from force_collection.
Consistency check fix in SnapToGrid().
Box2d output changed back to 15 significant digits.
NEW distance_sphere() function.
Changed get_proj4_from_srid implementation to use PL/PGSQL instead of SQL.
BUGFIX in loader and dumper handling of MultiLine shapes
BUGFIX in loader, skipping all but first hole of polygons.
jdbc2: code cleanups, Makefile improvements
FLEX and YACC variables set *after* pgsql Makefile.global is included and only if the pgsql *stripped* version evaulates to the empty string
Added already generated parser in release
Build scripts refinements
improved version handling, central Version.config
improvements in postgis_restore.pl
Release date: 2005/02/24
Third release candidate for 1.0.0. Contains many bug fixes and improvements.
You need a dump/reload to upgrade from precedent releases. See the upgrading chapter for more informations.
BUGFIX in transform(): missing SRID, better error handling.
BUGFIX in memory alignment handling
BUGFIX in force_collection() causing mapserver connector failures on simple (single) geometry types.
BUGFIX in GeometryFromText() missing to add a bbox cache.
reduced precision of box2d output.
prefixed DEBUG macros with PGIS_ to avoid clash with pgsql one
plugged a leak in GEOS2POSTGIS converter
Reduced memory usage by early releasing query-context palloced one.
BUGFIX in 72 index bindings.
BUGFIX in probe_geometry_columns() to work with PG72 and support multiple geometry columns in a single table
NEW bool::text cast
Some functions made IMMUTABLE from STABLE, for performance improvement.
jdbc2: small patches, box2d/3d tests, revised docs and license.
jdbc2: bug fix and testcase in for pgjdbc 8.0 type autoregistration
jdbc2: Removed use of jdk1.4 only features to enable build with older jdk releases.
jdbc2: Added support for building against pg72jdbc2.jar
jdbc2: updated and cleaned makefile
jdbc2: added BETA support for jts geometry classes
jdbc2: Skip known-to-fail tests against older PostGIS servers.
jdbc2: Fixed handling of measured geometries in EWKT.
new performance tips chapter in manual
documentation updates: pgsql72 requirement, lwpostgis.sql
few changes in autoconf
BUILDDATE extraction made more portable
fixed spatial_ref_sys.sql to avoid vacuuming the whole database.
spatial_ref_sys: changed Paris entries to match the ones distributed with 0.x.
Release date: 2005/01/26
Second release candidate for 1.0.0 containing bug fixes and a few improvements.
You need a dump/reload to upgrade from precedent releases. See the upgrading chapter for more informations.
BUGFIX in pointarray box3d computation
BUGFIX in distance_spheroid definition
BUGFIX in transform() missing to update bbox cache
NEW jdbc driver (jdbc2)
GEOMETRYCOLLECTION(EMPTY) syntax support for backward compatibility
Faster binary outputs
Stricter OGC WKB/WKT constructors
More correct STABLE, IMMUTABLE, STRICT uses in lwpostgis.sql
stricter OGC WKB/WKT constructors
Release date: 2005/01/13
This is the first candidate of a major postgis release, with internal storage of postgis types redesigned to be smaller and faster on indexed queries.
You need a dump/reload to upgrade from precedent releases. See the upgrading chapter for more informations.
Faster canonical input parsing.
Lossless canonical output.
EWKB Canonical binary IO with PG>73.
Support for up to 4d coordinates, providing lossless shapefile->postgis->shapefile conversion.
New function: UpdateGeometrySRID(), AsGML(), SnapToGrid(), ForceRHR(), estimated_extent(), accum().
Vertical positioning indexed operators.
JOIN selectivity function.
More geometry constructors / editors.
Postgis extension API.
UTF8 support in loader.