PostGIS 3.6.0alpha1

The PostGIS Team is pleased to release PostGIS 3.6.0alpha1! Best Served with PostgreSQL 18 Beta1 and GEOS 3.13.1.

This version requires PostgreSQL 12 - 18beta1, 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 2.1.0+ is needed.

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This release is an alpha of a major release, it includes bug fixes since PostGIS 3.5.3 and new features.

Many thanks to our translation teams, in particular:

Dapeng Wang, Zuo Chenwei from HighGo (Chinese Team) Teramoto Ikuhiro (Japanese Team) Vincent Bre from Oslandia (French Team)

After installing the binaries or after running pg_upgrade:

For PostGIS 3.5, 3.4, 3.3, 3.2, 3.1, 3.0 do below which will upgrade all your postgis extensions.

SELECT postgis_extensions_upgrade();

For PostGIS 2.5 and below do:

ALTER EXTENSION postgis UPDATE;
SELECT postgis_extensions_upgrade();
SELECT postgis_extensions_upgrade();

If you come across any issues, feel free to report via our ticket tracker or mailing list with details

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