<appendix id="release_notes">
<title>Release Notes</title>
+ <sect1>
+ <title>Release 1.0.4</title>
+ <para>Release date: 2005/09/12</para>
+
+ <para>
+Contains important bug fixes and a few improvements. In particular, it
+fixes a memory leak preventing successful build of GiST indexes
+for large spatial tables.
+ </para>
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Upgrading</title>
+
+ <para>If you are upgrading from
+ release 1.0.3 you <emphasis>DO
+ NOT</emphasis> need a dump/reload.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>If you are upgrading from
+ a release <emphasis>between 1.0.0RC6 and
+ 1.0.2</emphasis> (inclusive) and really want
+ a live upgrade read the <link
+ linkend="rel_1.0.3_upgrading">upgrade
+ section</link> of the 1.0.3 release notes
+ chapter.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Upgrade from any release prior to 1.0.0RC6
+ requires an <link linkend="hard_upgrade">hard
+ upgrade</link>.
+ </para>
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Bug fixes</title>
+ <para>Memory leak plugged in GiST indexing</para>
+ <para>Segfault fix in transform() handling of proj4 errors</para>
+ <para>Fixed some proj4 texts in spatial_ref_sys (missing +proj)</para>
+ <para>Loader: fixed string functions usage, reworked NULL objects check, fixed segfault on MULTILINESTRING input.</para>
+ <para>Fixed bug in MakeLine dimension handling</para>
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Improvements</title>
+ <para>Documentation improvements</para>
+ <para>More robust selectivity estimator </para>
+ <para>Minor speedup in distance()</para>
+ <para>Minor cleanups </para>
+ <para>GiST indexing cleanup</para>
+ <para>Looser syntax acceptance in box3d parser</para>
+ </sect2>
+
+ </sect1>
+
<sect1>
<title>Release 1.0.3</title>
<para>Release date: 2005/08/08</para>
correctness of stored geometries</emphasis> - and a few improvements.
</para>
- <sect2>
+ <sect2 id="rel_1.0.3_upgrading">
<title>Upgrading</title>
<para>