PostGIS

Improvements in the TIGER geocoder. A fix for an ST_EndPoint() crash bug. ST_AsGML() has been modified, improving v2 and adding v3 support. A fix to ensure ST_Envelope() returns valid geometries. The JDBC build has been changed to use Ant. A fix for better OS X support. A fix to the WKB parser to do simple validity checks.

A bug in Within() caused by a point-in-polygon
performance shortcut was fixed. A bug in indexes
with null on PostgreSQL 8.2 was fixed. JTS
handling of multi-dimensional data was fixed. GCJ
Java support was fixed. A fix was made for JDBC
compatibility in PostgreSQL 8.2. The AsKML()
function was added. Transform() performance was
improved when no transform is actually required.

This release adds support for Curve type, serialization and de-serialization, index bindings, and documentation. There are performance enhancements for Contains and Within for point-in-polygon cases. There is support for basic SQL/MM functions to align with the ArcSDE SQL/MM implementation.

A C API change that broke 64-bit platforms was
fixed. Z ordinate was added to reprojections.
spatial_ref_sys.sql was updated to be synchronized
with EPSG 6.11.1.

Support for the upcoming PostgreSQL 8.2 release
was fixed. A bug in which the collect() function
discarded the SRID of input was fixed. An SRID
match check was added in MakeBox2d and MakeBox3d.
The regression tests were fixed to pass with
GEOS-3.0.0.