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PostGIS 1.3.6 Release

The 1.3.6 release of PostGIS is now available. This release includes several bug fixes and enhancements

Improve PostgreSQL 8.4 compile support (Talha Rizwan, Mark Cave-Ayland)
Numerous fixes for CURVE handling in many functions (Mark Cave-Ayland, Mark Leslie)
Trac#88: Windows Vista pgsql2shp memory bug (Regina Obe)
Trac#146: for distance calculation on collections (Nicklas Aven, Paul Ramsey)
Trac#116: crashers for rare EWKB cases (Paul Ramsey)
Fix to address an SRID of -1 in probe_geometry_columns (Kevin Neufeld)
Trac#99: shp2pgsql logical error when importing DBF-only (Regina Obe)
Trac#105: pgsql2shp dbase file creation (EOF marker issue) (Paul Ramsey)
Improved error handling with AddGeometryColumn (Kevin Neufeld)
General documentation improvements and corrections for better handling with PDF DbLatex (Regina Obe, Kevin Neufeld)