waiting_postgis_24

One of the things I'm most happy about with upcoming PostGIS 2.4.0, due out in about a week is that it is the first version to have almost complete translations into different languages. The Japanese, German, Portugese, and Korean translations are more than 80% complete with Japanese being 96%. You can download the html manuals from PostGIS docs page. Thwre are PDFs for non-Asian languages. Japanese and Korean languages I'm still having issue generating the pdfs.

When you install PostGIS with CREATE EXTENSION postgis;, it also installs the accompanying help extracted from the manual in English format.

The comment generator we have in place is just as happy working with translated docs as it is with the English one so the in db help documents can also be generated in other languages. The help files are located: Japanese, German, Portugese, and Korean

So PostgreSQL 10beta1 came out recently as Holly mentioned. When first mention of beta hits, things start getting serious for me. I have to make sure that PostGIS compiles against said distribution to make sure eager testers aren't held back.

As with other releases, PostGIS didn't compile against the new PostgreSQL version without some nurturing. We've still got one regress failure, but at least PostGIS 2.4 now compiles cleanly against PostgreSQL 10beta1. I'm hoping that we can release PostGIS 2.4.0 just in time for PostgreSQL 10 planned release in September so I don't have to backport PostgreSQL 10 patches I made to lower PostGIS versions.

For PostGIS 2.4 the main focus will be cleaning up the parallel work so that all aggregate functions can enjoy use of parallel optimization. This is even more important with PostgreSQL 10 now that more kinds of queries can benefit from parallelization work. I'm also hoping to focus more energy on the raster side of things.