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A.3.4 Enhancements
Core geometry system moved into independent library, liblwgeom. (Mark Cave-Ayland)
New build system uses PostgreSQL "pgxs" build bootstrapper. (Mark Cave-Ayland)
Debugging framework formalized and simplified. (Mark Cave-Ayland)
All build-time #defines generated at configure time and placed in headers for easier cross-platform support (Mark Cave-Ayland)
Logging framework formalized and simplified (Mark Cave-Ayland)
Expanded and more stable support for CIRCULARSTRING, COMPOUNDCURVE and CURVEPOLYGON, better parsing,
wider support in functions (Mark Leslie & Mark Cave-Ayland)
Improved support for OpenSolaris builds (Paul Ramsey)
Improved support for MSVC builds (Mateusz Loskot)
Updated KML support (Olivier Courtin)
Unit testing framework for liblwgeom (Paul Ramsey)
New testing framework to comprehensively exercise every PostGIS function (Regine Obe)
Performance improvements to all geometry aggregate functions (Paul Ramsey)
Support for the upcoming PostgreSQL 8.4 (Mark Cave-Ayland, Talha Bin Rizwan)
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)

A.3.5 Bug fixes

http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/query?status=closed&milestone=postgis+1.4.0&order=priority

A.4 Release 1.3.6

Release date: 2009/05/04
This release adds support for PostgreSQL 8.4, exporting prj files from the database with shape data, some crash fixes for
shp2pgsql, and several small bug fixes in the handling of "curve" types, logical error importing dbf only files, improved error handling of AddGeometryColumns.

A.5 Release 1.3.5

Release date: 2008/12/15
This release is a bug fix release to address a failure in ST_Force_Collection and related functions that critically affects using
Mapserver with LINE layers.

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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)