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   </chapter>
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+       <chapter>
+               <title>Release Notes</title>
+
+               <sect1>
+                       <title>Release 1.0.0</title>
+
+                       <para>This is a major postgis release, with internal
+                       storage of postgis types redesigned to be smaller
+                       and faster on indexed queries.</para>
+
+                       <sect2>
+                               <title>Upgrading</title>
+
+                               <para>You need a dump/reload to upgrade
+                               from precedent releases. Take a look at
+                               utils/postgis_restore.pl for a convenient
+                               way to do so.</para>
+                       </sect2>
+
+                       <sect2>
+                               <title>Changes</title>
+
+                               <para>
+                               Faster canonical input parsing.
+                               </para>
+
+                               <para>
+                               Lossless canonical output.
+                               </para>
+
+                               <para>
+                               EWKB Canonical binary IO with PG>73.
+                               </para>
+
+                               <para>
+                               Support for up to 4d coordinates, providing
+                               lossless shapefile->postgis->shapefile
+                               conversion.
+                               </para>
+
+                               <para>
+                               New function: UpdateGeometrySRID(), AsGML(),
+                               SnapToGrid(), ForceRHR(), estimated_extent(),
+                               accum().
+                               </para>
+
+                               <para>
+                               Vertical positioning indexed operators.
+                               </para>
+
+                               <para>
+                               JOIN selectivity function.
+                               </para>
+
+                               <para>
+                               More geometry constructors / editors.
+                               </para>
+
+                               <para>
+                               Postgis extension API.
+                               </para>
+
+                               <para>
+                               UTF8 support in loader.
+                               </para>
+
+                       </sect2>
+
+                       <sect2>
+                               <title>Credits</title>
+
+                               <para>
+                               This release includes contributions from
+                               (in alphabetical order):
+                               Carl Anderson, David Blasby, IIDA Tetsushi,
+                               Kris Jurka, Mark Cave-Ayland, Markus Schaber,
+                               Ralph Mason.
+                               </para>
+                       </sect2>
+               </sect1>
+       </chapter>
 </book>