PostGIS 2.2.3 Released

The PostGIS development team is pleased to announce the release of PostGIS 2.2.3 As befits a patch release, the focus is on bugs and breakages.

If you are a Mac user using newer XCode 8, you might run into some compilation issues as a result of recent changes in XCode. Refer to https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/3643 for a patch you can use.

Please report bugs that you find in this release.

Bug Fixes and Improvements

3615, Fix schema support in RT_CreateOveriew (Cait Smith)

3628, Fix lack of support for capitalized-Y in SwapOrdinates

3524, Add interruptibility to geography brute-force distance calculation

3522, Handle POINT and MULTIPOINT correctly in ST_Subdivide

3565, ST_SetPoint can crash backend

3571, Install desktop file and application icons for shp2pgsql-gui (Sebastiaan Couwenberg)

3573, Operator <> incorrectly calculates m distance

3579, Crash in LWGEOM2GEOS

3515, tiger_data not being backed up

3569, Incorrect coordinates returned by ST_CollectionHomogenize (Dan Baston)

3602, perl as found by configure is not used in tiger extension, postgis_sfcgal, address_standardizer

3604, pgcommon/Makefile.in orders CFLAGS leads to installed liblwgeom.h (Greg Troxel)

3607, Fix inconsistency with multilinestring in ST_LocateBetweenElevations (Artur Zakirov)

3608, Fix crash passing -W UTF-8 to shp2pgsql (Matt Amos)

3624, [raster] load_outdb related tests fail for 2.2.2 & 2.3.0-beta1 on Debian unstable perl @INC fix (Sebastiaan Couwenberg)

3627, Encoded polyline functions ignore precision parameter (Christian Quest / Dan Baston)

3501, use ST_Union instead of ST_Collect to compute raster max extent constraint

3640, Interpolate_from_address sometimes results in “” invalid for numeric

3641, Tiger normalize, pagc_normalize integer out of range

3644, Deadlock on interrupt

3542, Crash on Geometry(MultiCurve())

Numerous documentation corrections from ruvyn

3652, Segmentation fault during operations on GEOMETRYCOLLECTION with MULTICURVE geometry inside

See the full list of changes in the news file and please report bugs that you find in the release. Binary packages will appear in repositories over the coming weeks as packagers roll out builds.

View all closed tickets for 2.2.3.