[News]PostGIS 2.0.2 Released

The PostGIS development team is happy to release the second patch

version of PostGIS 2, the 2.0.2 release. As befits a patch release,

the focus is on bugs and breakages, and there are a large number of

obscure things that are now better in this release.

http://download.osgeo.org/postgis/source/postgis-2.0.2.tar.gz

* Bug Fixes *

 - #1287, Drop of "gist_geometry_ops" broke a few clients

          package of legacy_gist.sql for these cases

 - #1391, Errors during upgrade from 1.5

 - #1828, Poor selectivity estimate on ST_DWithin

 - #1838, error importing tiger/line data

 - #1869, ST_AsBinary is not unique -

          added to legacy_minor/legacy.sql scripts

 - #1885, Missing field from tabblock table in tiger2010 census_loader.sql

 - #1891, Use LDFLAGS environment when building liblwgeom

 - #1899, Enhance toTopoGeom error on unsupported input

 - #1900, Fix pgsql2shp for big-endian systems

 - #1932, Fix raster2pgsql for invalid syntax for setting index tablespace

 - #1936, ST_GeomFromGML on CurvePolygon causes server crash

 - #1955, ST_ModEdgeHeal and ST_NewEdgeHeal for doubly connected edges

 - #1957, ST_Distance to a one-point LineString returns NULL

 - #1976, Geography point-in-ring code overhauled for more reliability

 - #1978, wrong answer calculating length of closed circular arc (circle)

 - #1981, Remove unused but set variables as found with gcc 4.6+

 - #1987, Restore 1.5.x behaviour of ST_Simplify

 - #1989, Preprocess input geometry to just intersection with raster

          to be clipped

 - #1991, geocode really slow on PostgreSQL 9.2

 - #1996, support POINT EMPTY in GeoJSON output

 - #1998, Fix ST_{Mod,New}EdgeHeal joining edges sharing both endpoints

 - #2001, ST_CurveToLine has no effect if the geometry doesn't actually

          contain an arc

 - #2015, ST_IsEmpty('POLYGON(EMPTY)') returns False

 - #2019, ST_FlipCoordinates does not update bbox

 - #2025, Fix side location conflict at TopoGeo_AddLineString

 - #2062, improve performance of distance calculations

 - #2033, Fix adding a splitting point into a 2.5d topology

 - #2051, Fix excess of precision in ST_AsGeoJSON output

 - #2052, Fix buffer overflow in lwgeom_to_geojson

 - #2056, Fixed lack of SRID check of raster and geometry in ST_SetValue()

 - #2057, Fixed linking issue for raster2psql to libpq

 - #2060, Fix "dimension" check violation by GetTopoGeomElementArray

 - #2072, Removed outdated checks preventing ST_Intersects(raster) from

          working on out-db bands

 - #2077, Fixed incorrect answers from ST_Hillshade(raster)

 - #2092, Namespace issue with ST_GeomFromKML,ST_GeomFromGML for libxml 2.8+

 - #2099, Fix double free on exception in ST_OffsetCurve

 - #2100, ST_AsRaster() may not return raster with specified pixel type

 - #2108, Ensure ST_Line_Interpolate_Point always returns POINT

 - #2109, Ensure ST_Centroid always returns POINT

 - #2117, Ensure ST_PointOnSurface always returns POINT

 - #2129, Fix SRID in ST_Homogenize output with collection input

 - #2130, Fix memory error in MultiPolygon GeoJson parsing

 - Update URL of Maven jar

* Enhancements *

 - #1581, ST_Clip(raster, ...) no longer imposes NODATA on a band if the

          corresponding band from the source raster did not have NODATA

 - #1928, Accept array properties in GML input multi-geom input

   (Kashif Rasul and Shoaib Burq / SpacialDB)

 - #2082, Add indices on start_node and end_node of topology edge tables

 - #2087, Speedup topology.GetRingEdges using a recursive CTE