up port PostGIS 2.1 branch release notes

git-svn-id: http://svn.osgeo.org/postgis/trunk@14307 b70326c6-7e19-0410-871a-916f4a2858ee

Author: robe2

NEWS

@@ -159,6 +159,31 @@ PostGIS 2.2.0
  smaller files for ease of long-term maintenance and development
  - #1220, lwerror and lwnotice function became internal to liblwgeom
 
+PostGIS 2.1.8
+2015/07/07
+
+ * Bug Fixes *
+
+ - #3159, do not force a bbox cache on ST_Affine
+ - #3018, GROUP BY geography sometimes returns duplicate rows
+ - #3048, shp2pgsql - illegal number format when specific system locale set
+ - #3094, Malformed GeoJSON inputs crash backend
+ - #3104, st_asgml introduces random characters in ID field
+ - #3155, Remove liblwgeom.h on make uninstall
+ - #3177, gserialized_is_empty cannot handle nested empty cases
+ - Fix crash in ST_LineLocatePoint
+
+
+PostGIS 2.1.7
+2015/03/30
+
+ * Bug Fixes *
+
+ - #3086, ST_DumpValues() crashes backend on cleanup with invalid
+ band indexes
+ - #3088, Do not (re)define strcasestr in a liblwgeom.h
+ - #3094, Malformed GeoJSON inputs crash backend
+ 
 PostGIS 2.1.6
 2015/03/20
 

doc/release_notes.xml

@@ -81,6 +81,61 @@
  </simplesect>
 </sect1>
 
+ <sect1>
+ <title>Release 2.1.8</title>
+ <para>Release date: 2015-07-07</para>
+ <para>This is a critical bug fix release.</para>
+ <simplesect>
+ <title>Bug Fixes</title>
+ <para>#3159, do not force a bbox cache on ST_Affine</para>
+ <para>#3018, GROUP BY geography sometimes returns duplicate rows</para>
+ <para>#3048, shp2pgsql - illegal number format when specific system locale set</para>
+ <para>#3094, Malformed GeoJSON inputs crash backend</para>
+ <para>#3104, st_asgml introduces random characters in ID field</para>
+ <para>#3155, Remove liblwgeom.h on make uninstall</para>
+ <para>#3177, gserialized_is_empty cannot handle nested empty cases</para>
+ <para>Fix crash in ST_LineLocatePoint</para>
+ </simplesect>
+ </sect1>
+ 
+ <sect1>
+ <title>Release 2.1.7</title>
+ <para>Release date: 2015-03-30</para>
+ <para>This is a critical bug fix release.</para>
+ <simplesect>
+ <title>Bug Fixes</title>
+ <para>#3086, ST_DumpValues() crashes backend on cleanup with invalid band indexes</para>
+ <para>#3088, Do not (re)define strcasestr in a liblwgeom.h</para>
+ <para>#3094, Malformed GeoJSON inputs crash backend</para>
+ </simplesect>
+ </sect1>
+ 
+ <sect1>
+ <title>Release 2.1.6</title>
+ <para>Release date: 2015-03-20</para>
+ <para>This is a bug fix and performance improvement release.</para>
+ <simplesect> 
+ <title>Enhancements</title>
+ <para>#3000, Ensure edge splitting and healing algorithms use indexes</para>
+ <para>#3048, Speed up geometry simplification (J.Santana @ CartoDB)</para>
+ <para>#3050, Speep up geometry type reading (J.Santana @ CartoDB)</para>
+ </simplesect>
+ <simplesect>
+ <title>Bug Fixes</title>
+ <para>#2941, allow geography columns with SRID other than 4326</para>
+ <para>#3069, small objects getting inappropriately fluffed up w/ boxes</para>
+ <para>#3068, Have postgis_typmod_dims return NULL for unconstrained dims</para>
+ <para>#3061, Allow duplicate points in JSON, GML, GML ST_GeomFrom* functions</para>
+ <para>#3058, Fix ND-GiST picksplit method to split on the best plane</para>
+ <para>#3052, Make operators &lt;-&gt; and &lt;#&gt; available for PostgreSQL &lt; 9.1</para>
+ <para>#3045, Fix dimensionality confusion in &amp;&amp;&amp; operator</para>
+ <para>#3016, Allow unregistering layers of corrupted topologies</para>
+ <para>#3015, Avoid exceptions from TopologySummary</para>
+ <para>#3020, ST_AddBand out-db bug where height using width value</para>
+ <para>#3031, Allow restore of Geometry(Point) tables dumped with empties in them</para>
+ </simplesect>
+ </sect1>
+ 
 <sect1>
  <title>Release 2.1.5</title>
  <para>Release date: 2014-12-18</para>