PostGIS 2.1.4 Released

The 2.1.4 release of PostGIS is now available.

The PostGIS development team is happy to release patch for PostGIS 2.1, the 2.1.4 release. As befits a patch release, the focus is on bugs, breakages, and performance issues

<https://download.osgeo.org/postgis/source/postgis-2.1.4.tar.gz>

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Enhancements

  • #2745, Speedup ST_Simplify calls against points
  • #2747, Support for GDAL 2.0
  • #2749, Make rtpostgis_upgrade_20_21.sql ACID
  • #2811, Do not specify index names when loading shapefiles/rasters
  • #2829, Shortcut ST_Clip(raster) if geometry fully contains the raster and no NODATA specified
  • #2895, Raise cost of ST_ConvexHull(raster) to 300 for better query plans

Bug Fixes

  • #2605, armel: _ST_Covers() returns true for point in hole
  • #2911, Fix output scale on ST_Rescale/ST_Resample/ST_Resize of rasters with scale 1/-1 and offset 0/0.
    • Fix crash in ST_Union(raster)
  • #2704, ST_GeomFromGML() does not work properly with array of gml:pos (Even Roualt)
  • #2708, updategeometrysrid doesn't update srid check when schema not specified. Patch from Marc Jansen
  • #2720, lwpoly_add_ring should update maxrings after realloc
  • #2759, Fix postgis_restore.pl handling of multiline object comments embedding sql comments
  • #2774, fix undefined behavior in ptarray_calculate_gbox_geodetic
    • Fix potential memory fault in ST_MakeValid
  • #2784, Fix handling of bogus argument to --with-sfcgal
  • #2772, Premature memory free in RASTER_getBandPath (ST_BandPath)
  • #2755, Fix regressions tests against all versions of SFCGAL
  • #2775, lwline_from_lwmpoint leaks memory
  • #2802, ST_MapAlgebra checks for valid callback function return value
  • #2803, ST_MapAlgebra handles no userarg and STRICT callback function
  • #2834, ST_Estimated_Extent and mixedCase table names (regression bug)
  • #2845, Bad geometry created from ST_AddPoint
  • #2870, Binary insert into geography column results geometry being inserted
  • #2872, make install builds documentation (Greg Troxell)
  • #2819, find isfinite or replacement on Centos5 / Solaris
  • #2899, geocode limit 1 not returning best answer (tiger geocoder)
  • #2903, Unable to compile on FreeBSD
  • #2927 reverse_geocode not filling in direction prefix (tiger geocoder) get rid of deprecated ST_Line_Locate_Point called

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