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PostGIS 1.5.3 Release

The 1.5.3 release of PostGIS is now available. This is a minor release addressing a few issues that have been filed since the 1.5.2 release in addition to fixes that allow it to compile against PostgreSQL 9.1beta.

Bug Fixes

#1056, produce correct bboxes for arc geometries, fixes index errors (Paul Ramsey)
#1007, ST_IsValid crash - fix requires GEOS 3.3.0+ or 3.2.3+ (Sandro Santilli, reported by Birgit Laggner)
#940, support for PostgreSQL 9.1 beta 1 (Regina Obe, Paul Ramsey, patch submitted by stl)
#845, ST_Intersects precision error (Sandro Santilli, Nicklas Avèn, reported by cdestigter)
#884, Unstable results with ST_Within, ST_Intersects (Chris Hodgson)
#779, shp2pgsql -S option seems to fail on points (Jeff Adams)
#666, ST_DumpPoints is not null safe (Regina Obe)
#631, Update NZ projections for grid transformation support (jpalmer)
#630, Peculiar Null treatment in arrays in ST_Collect (Chris Hodgson, reported by David Bitner)
#624, Memory leak in ST_GeogFromText (ryang, Paul Ramsey)
#609, Bad source code in manual section 5.2 Java Clients (simoc, Regina Obe)
#604, shp2pgsql usage touchups (Mike Toews, Paul Ramsey)
#573 ST_Union fails on a group of linestrings - Not a PostGIS bug, fixed in GEOS 3.3.0
#457 ST_CollectionExtract returns non-requested type (Nicklas AvÈn, Paul Ramsey)
#441 ST_AsGeoJson Bbox on GeometryCollection error (Olivier Courtin)
#411 Ability to backup invalid geometries (Sando Santilli, reported by Regione Toscana)
#409 ST_AsSVG - degraded (Olivier Courtin, Reported by Sdikiy)
#373 Documentation syntax error in hard upgrade (Paul Ramsey, reported by psvensso)