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A.6 Release 1.3.4

Release date: 2008/11/24
This release adds support for GeoJSON output, building with PostgreSQL 8.4, improves documentation quality and output
aesthetics, adds function-level SQL documentation, and improves performance for some spatial predicates (point-in-polygon
tests).
Bug fixes include removal of crashers in handling circular strings for many functions, some memory leaks removed, a linear
referencing failure for measures on vertices, and more. See the NEWS file for details.

A.7 Release 1.3.3

Release date: 2008/04/12
This release fixes bugs shp2pgsql, adds enhancements to SVG and KML support, adds a ST_SimplifyPreserveTopology function,
makes the build more sensitive to GEOS versions, and fixes a handful of severe but rare failure cases.

A.8 Release 1.3.2

Release date: 2007/12/01
This release fixes bugs in ST_EndPoint() and ST_Envelope, improves support for JDBC building and OS/X, and adds better
support for GML output with ST_AsGML(), including GML3 output.

A.9 Release 1.3.1

Release date: 2007/08/13
This release fixes some oversights in the previous release around version numbering, documentation, and tagging.

A.10 Release 1.3.0

Release date: 2007/08/09
This release provides performance enhancements to the relational functions, adds new relational functions and begins the migration of our function names to the SQL-MM convention, using the spatial type (SP) prefix.

A.10.1 Added Functionality

JDBC: Added Hibernate Dialect (thanks to Norman Barker)
Added ST_Covers and ST_CoveredBy relational functions. Description and justification of these functions can be found at
http://lin-ear-th-inking.blogspot.com/2007/06/subtleties-of-ogc-covers-spatial.html
Added ST_DWithin relational function.

A.10.2 Performance Enhancements

Added cached and indexed point-in-polygon short-circuits for the functions ST_Contains, ST_Intersects, ST_Within and ST_Disjoint
Added inline index support for relational functions (except ST_Disjoint)

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A.10.3 Other Changes

Extended curved geometry support into the geometry accessor and some processing functions
Began migration of functions to the SQL-MM naming convention; using a spatial type (ST) prefix.
Added initial support for PostgreSQL 8.3

A.11 Release 1.2.1

Release date: 2007/01/11
This release provides bug fixes in PostgreSQL 8.2 support and some small performance enhancements.

A.11.1 Changes
Fixed point-in-polygon shortcut bug in Within().
Fixed PostgreSQL 8.2 NULL handling for indexes.
Updated RPM spec files.
Added short-circuit for Transform() in no-op case.
JDBC: Fixed JTS handling for multi-dimensional geometries (thanks to Thomas Marti for hint and partial patch). Additionally,
now JavaDoc is compiled and packaged. Fixed classpath problems with GCJ. Fixed pgjdbc 8.2 compatibility, losing support for
jdk 1.3 and older.

A.12 Release 1.2.0

Release date: 2006/12/08
This release provides type definitions along with serialization/deserialization capabilities for SQL-MM defined curved geometries, as well as performance enhancements.

A.12.1 Changes
Added curved geometry type support for serialization/deserialization
Added point-in-polygon shortcircuit to the Contains and Within functions to improve performance for these cases.

A.13 Release 1.1.6

Release date: 2006/11/02
This is a bugfix release, in particular fixing a critical error with GEOS interface in 64bit systems. Includes an updated of the SRS
parameters and an improvement in reprojections (take Z in consideration). Upgrade is encouraged.

A.13.1 Upgrading
If you are upgrading from release 1.0.3 or later follow the soft upgrade procedure.
If you are upgrading from a release between 1.0.0RC6 and 1.0.2 (inclusive) and really want a live upgrade read the upgrade
section of the 1.0.3 release notes chapter.
Upgrade from any release prior to 1.0.0RC6 requires an hard upgrade.