From 266cd87f28037e44e92cda166d0eb2c687ee17e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Regina Obe Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:26:54 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add David Techer, new doco enhancements, new populate_geometry_columns git-svn-id: http://svn.osgeo.org/postgis/trunk@4162 b70326c6-7e19-0410-871a-916f4a2858ee --- NEWS | 17 ++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index d41d15822..2f71bdcd7 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -4,6 +4,13 @@ PostGIS 1.4.0 - API Stability - As of the 1.4 release series, the public API of PostGIS will not change during minor releases. + + - Compatibility + - The versions below are the *minimum* requirements for PostGIS 1.4 + - PostgreSQL 8.2 and higher on all platforms + - GEOS 3.0 and higher only + - PROJ4 4.5 and higher only + - New Features - ST_Union() uses high-speed cascaded union when compiled against GEOS 3.1+ (Paul Ramsey) @@ -24,11 +31,9 @@ PostGIS 1.4.0 - Geometry parser returns explicit error message about location of syntax errors (Mark Cave-Ayland) - ST_AsGeoJSON() return JSON formatted geometry (Olivier Courtin) - - Compatibility - - The versions below are the *minimum* requirements for PostGIS 1.4 - - PostgreSQL 8.2 and higher on all platforms - - GEOS 3.0 and higher only - - PROJ4 4.5 and higher only + - Populate_Geometry_Columns() -- automatically add records to + geometry_columns for TABLES and VIEWS (Kevin Neufeld) + - Enhancements - Core geometry system moved into independent library, liblwgeom. (Mark Cave-Ayland) @@ -54,6 +59,8 @@ PostGIS 1.4.0 - Shp2pgsql and pgsql2shp re-worked to depend on the common parsing/unparsing code in liblwgeom (Mark Cave-Ayland) - Use of PDF DbLatex to build PDF docs and preliminary instructions for build (Jean David Techer) + - Automated User documentation build (PDF and HTML) and Developer Doxygen Documentation (Kevin Neufeld) + - Automated build of document images using ImageMagick from WKT geometry text files (Kevin Neufeld) - More attractive CSS for HTML documentation (Dane Springmeyer) - Bug fixes - http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/query?status=closed&milestone=postgis+1.4.0&order=priority -- 2.40.0