Recent News

The 1.5.0 release of PostGIS is now available. This is a major release adding a significant number of new features including:

• New "geography" type for managing geodetic (lat/lon) data
• Performance-enhanced distance calculations
• GML and KML format readers
• Improved shape loading GUI
• And more!

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The 1.4.1 release of PostGIS is now available. This is a minor release addressing a few issues that have been filed since the 1.4.0 release.

• Bug fixes for ST_LineCrossingDirection, ST_Union, ST_MakeLine
• Improved parsing for higher dimensional geometries
• Addressed memory issues with ST_As* functions
• Corrected inconsistent results when using the ~= operator

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The international open source GIS conference. The call for papers is now open!

The 1.4.0 release of PostGIS is now available. This is a significant release including many performance enhancements, bug fixes, improved internal testing system, more detailed documentation.

• API Stability - new policies surrounding minor releases
• Support for PostgreSQL 8.4
• New methods - ST_GeoHash, ST_LineCrossingDirection, ST_AsGeoJSON, ST_MinimumBoundingCircle to name a few
• Significant performance improvements for many spatial operations, including ST_Union, ST_Intersects, ST_Contains, and ST_Within
• Vastly improved documentation and reference manual
• Improved build system, library structure, debugging framework, unit testing
• More stable support for CIRCULARSTRING, COMPOUNDCURVE and CURVEPOLYGON

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

• Improved PostgreSQL 8.4 compile support
• New .prj file support with pgsql2shp
• Documentation improvements
• Windows Vista memory bug fix
• Bug fixes with EWKB, shp2pgsql, pgsql2shp, and probe_geometry_columns

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