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Appendix A. Appendix

Release Notes

Table of Contents

A.1. PostGIS 3.5.1

2024/09/25

This version requires PostgreSQL 12-17, GEOS 3.8 or higher, and Proj 6.1+. To take advantage of all features, GEOS 3.12+ is needed. To take advantage of all SFCGAL features, SFCGAL 1.5.0+ is needed.

Breaking Changes

#5677 , Retain SRID during unary union (Paul Ramsey)

#5792 , [topology] Prevent topology corruption with TopoGeo_addPoint near almost collinear edges (Sandro Santilli)

#5795 , [topology] Fix ST_NewEdgesSplit can cause invalid topology (Björn Harrtell)

#5794 , [topology] Fix crash in TopoGeo_addPoint (Sandro Santilli)

#5785 , [raster] ST_MapAlgebra segfaults when expression references a supernumerary rast argument (Dian M Fay)

#5787 , Check that ST_ChangeEdgeGeom doesn't change winding of rings (Sandro Santilli)

#5791 , Add legacy stubs for old transaction functions to allow pg_upgrade (Regina Obe)

#5800 , PROJ compiled version reading the wrong minor and micro (Regina Obe)

#5790 , Non-schema qualified calls causing issue with materialized views (Regina Obe)

#5812 , Performance regression in ST_Within (Paul Ramsey)

#5815 , Remove hash/merge promise from <> operator (Paul Ramsey)

#5823 , Build support for Pg18 (Paul Ramsey)

Enhancements

#5782 , Improve robustness of min distance calculation (Sandro Santilli)

[topology] Speedup topology building when closing large rings with many holes (Björn Harrtell)

#5810 , Update tiger geocoder to handle TIGER 2024 data (Regina Obe)

Breaking Changes

#5799 , make ST_TileEnvelope clip envelopes to tile plane extent (Paul Ramsey)

A.2. PostGIS 3.5.0

2024/09/25

This version requires PostgreSQL 12-17, GEOS 3.8 or higher, and Proj 6.1+. To take advantage of all features, GEOS 3.12+ is needed. To take advantage of all SFCGAL features, SFCGAL 1.5.0+ is needed.

Many thanks to our translation teams, in particular:

Dapeng Wang, Zuo Chenwei from HighGo (Chinese Team)

Teramoto Ikuhiro (Japanese Team)

Vincent Bre (French Team)

Breaking Changes

#5546 , TopoGeometry <> TopoGeometry is now ambiguous, to get the old behaviour, assuming your TopoGeometry objects are named tg1 and tg2, use: ( id(tg1) <> id(tg2) OR topology_id(tg1) <> topology_id(tg2) OR layer_id(tg1) <> layer_id(tg2) OR type(tg1) <> type(tg2) ) (Sandro Santilli)

#5536 , comments are not anymore included in PostGIS extensions (Sandro Santilli)

xmllint is now required to build comments (Sandro Santilli)

DocBook5 XSL is now required to build html (Sandro Santilli)

#5602 , Drop support for GEOS 3.6 and 3.7 (Regina Obe)

#5571 , Improve ST_GeneratePoints performance, but old seeded pseudo random points will need to be regenerated.

#5596 , GH-749, Allow promoting column as an id in ST_AsGeoJson(record,..). Views and materialized views that use the ST_AsGeoJSON(record ..) will need rebuilding to upgrade to new signature (Jan Tojnar)

#5496 , ST_Clip all variants replaced, will require rebuilding of materialized views that use them (funding from The National Institute for Agricultural and Food Research and Technology (INIA-CSIC)), Regina Obe

#5659 , ST_DFullyWithin behaviour has changed to be ST_Contains(ST_Buffer(A, R), B) (Paul Ramsey)

Remove the WFS_locks extra package. (Paul Ramsey)

5747 , GH-776 , ST_Length: Return 0 for CurvePolygon (Dan Baston)

5770 , support for GEOS 3.13 and RelateNG. Most functionality remains the same, but new GEOS predicate implementation has a few small changes.

Boundary Node Rule relate matrices might be different when using the "multi-valent end point" rule.

Relate matrices for situations with invalid MultiPolygons with shared boundaries might be different. Run ST_MakeValid to get valid inputs to feed to the calculation.

Zero length LineStrings are treated as if they are the equivalent Point object.

Deprecated signatures

GH-761 , ST_StraightSkeleton => CG_StraightSkeleton (Loïc Bartoletti)

GH-189 , All SFCGAL functions now use the prefix CG_, with the old ones using ST_ being deprecated. (Loïc Bartoletti)

New features

Improvements in the 'postgis' script:

  • new command list-enabled

  • new command list-all

  • command upgrade upgrades all databases that need to be

  • command status reports status of all databases

(Sandro Santilli)

#5742 , expose version of PROJ at compile time (Sandro Santilli)

#5721 , postgis_topology: Allow sharing sequences between different topologies (Lars Opsahl)

#5667 , postgis_topology: TopoGeo_LoadGeometry (Sandro Santilli)

#5055 , add explicit <> geometry operator to prevent non-unique error with <> and != (Paul Ramsey)

Add ST_HasZ/ST_HasM (Loïc Bartoletti)

GT-123 , postgis_sfcgal: CG_YMonotonePartition, CG_ApproxConvexPartition, CG_GreeneApproxConvexPartition and CG_OptimalConvexPartition (Loïc Bartoletti)

GT-156 , postgis_sfcgal: CG_Visibility (Loïc Bartoletti)

GT-157 , postgis_sfcgal: Add ST_ExtrudeStraightSkeleton (Loïc Bartoletti)

#5496 , postgis_raster: ST_Clip support for touched (Regina Obe)

GH-760 , postgis_sfcgal: CG_Intersection, CG_3DIntersects, CG_Intersects, CG_Difference, CG_Union (and aggregate), CG_Triangulate, CG_Area, CG_3DDistance, CG_Distance (Loïc Bartoletti)

#5687 , Don't rely on search_path to determine postgis schema Fix for PG17 security change (Regina Obe)

#5705 , GH-767 , ST_RemoveIrrelevantPointsForView (Sam Peters)

#5706 , GH-768 , ST_RemoveSmallParts (Sam Peters)

Enhancements

5550 , Fix upgrades from 2.x in sandboxed systems (Sandro Santilli)

#3587 , postgis_topology: faster load of big lines in topologies (Sandro Santilli)

#5670 , postgis_topology: faster ST_CreateTopoGeo (Sandro Santilli)

#5531 , documentation format upgraded to DocBook 5 (Sandro Santilli)

#5543 , allow building without documentation (Sandro Santilli)

#5596 , GH-749 , Allow promoting column as an id in ST_AsGeoJson(record,..). (Jan Tojnar)

GH-744 , Don't create docbook.css for the HTML manual, use style.css instead (Chris Mayo)

Faster implementation of point-in-poly cached index (Paul Ramsey)

Improve performance of ST_GeneratePoints (Paul Ramsey)

#5361 , ST_CurveN, ST_NumCurves and consistency in accessors on curved geometry (Paul Ramsey)

GH-761 , postgis_sfcgal: Add an optional parameter to CG_StraightSkeleton (was ST_StraightSkeleton) to use m as a distance in result (Hannes Janetzek, Loïc Bartoletti)