+2009-07-18 20:02 mcayland
+
+ * regress/Makefile.in: Fix for Windows combining stdout/stderr when
+ executing the $(shell) command.
+
+2009-07-18 18:55 mcayland
+
+ * regress/Makefile.in, regress/run_test: Apply fix to allow
+ regression tests to run on MingW by fixing PATH and removing
+ trailing CR/LFs on some outputs.
+
+2009-07-18 18:45 mcayland
+
+ * regress/run_test: Fix regression regex listings so that the newer
+ "LINE n:" lines and lines containing just a position indicator
+ (^) introduced in PostgreSQL 8.4 are removed from the regression
+ output.
+
+2009-07-16 21:32 mcayland
+
+ * liblwgeom/liblwgeom.h, postgis/lwgeom_pg.h: Move SERIALIZED_FORM
+ to lwgeom_pg.h from liblwgeom.h since it references a
+ PostgreSQL-only structure. Per report from Nicklas Aven.
+
+2009-07-16 21:24 mcayland
+
+ * loader/shp2pgsql-gui.c: Commit patch for missing lw_asprintf()
+ from #222.
+
+2009-07-13 17:28 pramsey
+
+ * liblwgeom/liblwgeom.h, loader/Makefile.in,
+ loader/shp2pgsql-cli.c, loader/shp2pgsql-core.c,
+ loader/shp2pgsql-core.h, loader/shp2pgsql-gui.c: MinGW fix for
+ loader (#222), Mark Cave-Ayland
+
+2009-07-13 16:55 pramsey
+
+ * doc/html/image_src, doc/html/images,
+ doc/html/images/st_centroid01.png,
+ doc/html/images/st_centroid02.png,
+ doc/html/images/st_centroid03.png,
+ doc/html/images/st_centroid04.png,
+ doc/html/images/st_issimple01.png,
+ doc/html/images/st_issimple02.png,
+ doc/html/images/st_issimple03.png,
+ doc/html/images/st_issimple04.png,
+ doc/html/images/st_issimple05.png,
+ doc/html/images/st_issimple06.png,
+ doc/html/images/st_issimple07.png,
+ doc/html/images/st_isvalid01.png,
+ doc/html/images/st_isvalid02.png,
+ doc/html/images/st_isvalid03.png,
+ doc/html/images/st_isvalid04.png,
+ doc/html/images/st_isvalid05.png,
+ doc/html/images/st_isvalid06.png,
+ doc/html/images/st_isvalid07.png,
+ doc/html/images/st_isvalid08.png,
+ doc/html/images/st_touches01.png,
+ doc/html/images/st_touches02.png,
+ doc/html/images/st_touches03.png,
+ doc/html/images/st_touches04.png,
+ doc/html/images/st_touches05.png,
+ doc/html/images/st_touches06.png: remove generated images from
+ source
+
+2009-07-08 15:22 pramsey
+
+ * doc/html/image_src/Makefile.in: Don't remove images on 'make
+ clean'
+
+2009-07-08 15:16 pramsey
+
+ * doc/Makefile.in: Include image clean in doc clean
+
+2009-07-08 15:08 pramsey
+
+ * doc/html/image_src/generator.c: Remove unnecessary reference to
+ CUnit
+
+2009-07-08 15:02 pramsey
+
+ * ChangeLog: Updated ChangeLog
+
2009-07-08 04:58 mcayland
* liblwgeom/lwsegmentize.c: Fix #112: ST_CurveToLine sometimes
<title>Appendix</title>
<subtitle>Release Notes</subtitle>
+ <sect1>
+ <title>Release 1.4.0</title>
+ <para>Release date: 2009/07/24</para>
+ <para>This release provides performance enhancements, improved internal structures and testing, new features, and upgraded documentation.</para>
+
+ <simplesect>
+ <title>API Stability</title>
+ <para>As of the 1.4 release series, the public API of PostGIS will not change during minor releases.</para>
+ </simplesect>
+
+ <simplesect>
+ <title>Compatibility</title>
+ <para>The versions below are the *minimum* requirements for PostGIS 1.4</para>
+ <para>PostgreSQL 8.2 and higher on all platforms</para>
+ <para>GEOS 3.0 and higher only</para>
+ <para>PROJ4 4.5 and higher only</para>
+ </simplesect>
+
+ <simplesect>
+ <title>New Features</title>
+ <para>ST_Union() uses high-speed cascaded union when compiled against
+ GEOS 3.1+ (Paul Ramsey)</para>
+ <para>ST_ContainsProperly() requires GEOS 3.1+</para>
+ <para>ST_Intersects(), ST_Contains(), ST_Within() use high-speed cached prepared geometry against GEOS 3.1+ (Paul Ramsey)</para>
+ <para>Vastly improved documentation and reference manual (Regina Obe & Kevin Neufeld)</para>
+ <para>Figures and diagram examples in the reference manual (Kevin Neufeld)</para>
+ <para>ST_IsValidReason() returns readable explanations for validity failures (Paul Ramsey)</para>
+ <para>ST_GeoHash() returns a geohash.org signature for geometries (Paul Ramsey)</para>
+ <para>GTK+ multi-platform GUI for shape file loading (Paul Ramsey)</para>
+ <para>ST_LineCrossingDirection() returns crossing directions (Paul Ramsey)</para>
+ <para>ST_LocateBetweenElevations() returns sub-string based on Z-ordinate. (Paul Ramsey)</para>
+ <para>Geometry parser returns explicit error message about location of syntax errors (Mark Cave-Ayland)</para>
+ <para>ST_AsGeoJSON() return JSON formatted geometry (Olivier Courtin)</para>
+ <para>Populate_Geometry_Columns() -- automatically add records to geometry_columns for TABLES and VIEWS (Kevin Neufeld)</para>
+ <para>ST_MinimumBoundingCircle() -- returns the smallest circle polygon that can encompass a geometry (Bruce Rindahl)</para>
+ </simplesect>
+
+ <simplesect>
+ <title>Enhancements</title>
+ <para>Core geometry system moved into independent library, liblwgeom. (Mark Cave-Ayland)</para>
+ <para>New build system uses PostgreSQL "pgxs" build bootstrapper. (Mark Cave-Ayland)</para>
+ <para>Debugging framework formalized and simplified. (Mark Cave-Ayland)</para>
+ <para>All build-time #defines generated at configure time and placed in headers for easier cross-platform support (Mark Cave-Ayland)</para>
+ <para>Logging framework formalized and simplified (Mark Cave-Ayland)</para>
+ <para>Expanded and more stable support for CIRCULARSTRING, COMPOUNDCURVE and CURVEPOLYGON, better parsing, wider support in functions (Mark Leslie & Mark Cave-Ayland)</para>
+ <para>Improved support for OpenSolaris builds (Paul Ramsey)</para>
+ <para>Improved support for MSVC builds (Mateusz Loskot)</para>
+ <para>Updated KML support (Olivier Courtin)</para>
+ <para>Unit testing framework for liblwgeom (Paul Ramsey)</para>
+ <para>New testing framework to comprehensively exercise every PostGIS function (Regine Obe)</para>
+ <para>Performance improvements to all geometry aggregate functions (Paul Ramsey)</para>
+ <para>Support for the upcoming PostgreSQL 8.4 (Mark Cave-Ayland, Talha Bin Rizwan)</para>
+ <para>Shp2pgsql and pgsql2shp re-worked to depend on the common parsing/unparsing code in liblwgeom (Mark Cave-Ayland)</para>
+ <para>Use of PDF DbLatex to build PDF docs and preliminary instructions for build (Jean David Techer)</para>
+ <para>Automated User documentation build (PDF and HTML) and Developer Doxygen Documentation (Kevin Neufeld)</para>
+ <para>Automated build of document images using ImageMagick from WKT geometry text files (Kevin Neufeld)</para>
+ <para>More attractive CSS for HTML documentation (Dane Springmeyer)</para>
+ </simplesect>
+ <simplesect>
+ <title>Bug fixes</title>
+ <para>http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/query?status=closed&milestone=postgis+1.4.0&order=priority</para>
+ </simplesect>
+ </sect1>
+
<sect1>
<title>Release 1.3.5</title>
<para>Release date: 2008/12/15</para>