pgsql's Makefile.shlib are patched around. ('make test' passes on
netbsd-5/i386 with postgresql84.)
This is a major release adding a significant number of new features including:
* New "geography" type for managing geodetic (lat/lon) data
* Performance-enhanced distance calculations
* GML and KML format readers
* Improved shape loading GUI
* And more!
Release Notes
Important Changes
* =~ operator now indicates bounding box equality, not feature equality
* GEOS 3.1 is now the minimum accepted version of GEOS
* GEOS 3.2 is needed if you want to use enhanced buffering features and ST_HausdorffDistance
* GEOS, LibXML2, and Proj4 are now mandatory dependencies
New Features
* Added Hausdorff distance calculations (#209) (Vincent Picavet)
* Added parameters argument to ST_Buffer operation to support one-sided buffering and other buffering styles (Sandro Santilli)
* Performance improvements to ST_Distance (Nicklas Avén)
* Addition of other Distance related visualization and analysis functions (Nicklas Avén)
* ST_ClosestPoint
* ST_DFullyWithin
* ST_LongestLine
* ST_MaxDistance
* ST_ShortestLine
* KML, GML input via ST_GeomFromGML and ST_GeomFromKML (Olivier Courtin)
* Extract homogeneous collection with ST_CollectionExtract (Paul Ramsey)
* Add measure values to existing linestring with ST_AddMeasure (Paul Ramsey)
* History table implementation in utils (George Silva)
* Win32 support and improvement of core shp2pgsql-gui (Mark Cave-Ayland)
* In place 'make check' support (Paul Ramsey)
* Geography type and supporting functions
o Spherical algorithms from Dave Skea
o Object/index implementation from Paul Ramsey
o Selectivitiy implementation from Mark Cave-Ayland
o Serializations (KML, GML, JSON) from Olivier Courtin
o ST_Area, ST_Distance, ST_DWithin, ST_GeogFromText, ST_GeogFromWKB, ST_Intersects, ST_Covers, ST_Buffer
* Documentation updates and improvements (Regina Obe, Kevin Neufeld)
* Testing and quality control (Regina Obe)
* PostGIS 1.5 support PostgreSQL 8.5 trunk (Guillaume Lelarge)
* Many, many other changes
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