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PostGIS 1.5.8 Manual294 / 310A.13 Release 1.3.4Release date: 2008/11/24This release adds support for GeoJSON output, building with PostgreSQL 8.4, improves documentation quality and outputaesthetics, adds function-level SQL documentation, and improves performance for some spatial predicates (point-in-polygontests).Bug fixes include removal of crashers in handling circular strings for many functions, some memory leaks removed, a linearreferencing failure for measures on vertices, and more. See the NEWS file for details.A.14 Release 1.3.3Release date: 2008/04/12This 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.15 Release 1.3.2Release date: 2007/12/01This release fixes bugs in ST_EndPoint() and ST_Envelope, improves support for JDBC building and OS/X, and adds bettersupport for GML output with ST_AsGML(), including GML3 output.A.16 Release 1.3.1Release date: 2007/08/13This release fixes some oversights in the previous release around version numbering, documentation, and tagging.A.17 Release 1.3.0Release date: 2007/08/09This release provides performance enhancements to the relational functions, adds new relational functions and begins the migrationof our function names to the SQL-MM convention, using the spatial type (SP) prefix.A.17.1Added FunctionalityJDBC: Added Hibernate Dialect (thanks to Norman Barker)Added ST_Covers and ST_CoveredBy relational functions. Description and justification of these functions can be found athttp://lin-ear-th-inking.blogspot.com/2007/06/subtleties-of-ogc-covers-spatial.htmlAdded ST_DWithin relational function.A.17.2Performance EnhancementsAdded cached and indexed point-in-polygon short-circuits for the functions ST_Contains, ST_Intersects, ST_Within and ST_DisjointAdded inline index support for relational functions (except ST_Disjoint)