Postgres updated to 12.5. PostGIS 3.0.3. pgRouting 3.1.3.

Note that I bumped the minimum macOS version to 10.13 High Sierra. This means GDAL Complete 3.2 is now required for PostGIS.

PostGIS 3.1 coming soon.

Holiday present for all. QGIS 3.16.2 (future LTR) is totally rebuilt with updated internals.

It now finds internal GRASS, OTB and SAGA. and external GDAL and Python without fussing with path settings. See the readme for instructions to clean up old settings.

With QGIS 3.16 I bumped the minimum macOS to 10.13 High Sierra. Ill probably maintain this through its LTR life.

QGIS updated. Just a note about versions yes there was a big version jump from 3.14.1 to 3.14.15 (I missed .15), there was a typo in the source and it stuck.

QGIS is updated to v3.10.7 LTR 3.14.0 and GDALCompleteis updated to 3.1.1.

NOTE: PDF read support is not included in GDAL/QGIS yet. Im working on it. It will be built into GDAL this time due to the licensing difference in the new base PDF library, but is difficult to get built properly.

NOTE: In attempting to update GDAL on an old Mac I discovered that it does not work on Sierra. Im sure I have all the options set to enable it on Sierra, but its possible the updated Xcode on my development Mac has a bug with this. If this is the case then I will not be able to fix it and I will have to bump the system requirements to High Sierra. By dependency, this affects QGIS, PostGIS and pgRouting. Its likely Postgres is also affected directly.

UPDATE: The QGIS 3.14 installer was not configured correctly and overwrote QGIS LTR. Now fixed.

UPDATE 2: I think I figured out the Sierra crash problem it was really an old hardware problem, now should be fixed. System requirements now back down to Sierra.

Finally caught up.

The GDAL Complete framework package gets a full update of all components, including the primary GDAL framework updating to 3.1. Python support updated to Python 3.8. The Sqlite/Spatialite/Rasterlite framework has been split into separate frameworks because of new interdependencies.

Postgres is now at v12.3. PostGIS is updated to 3.0.1.

QGIS updated to the latest 3.10 LTR and 3.12 current versions. Some packaging issues have been ironed out. I will be keeping my separation of QGIS, GDAL and Python.

Theremay be problems installing or using my packages on macOS Catalina.

I dont have a new enough Mac to install Catalina on. But this is what Ive read about so far:

Installers must now also be notarized, in addition to the signing. While signing is something the developer does, notarizing is done by Apple. Both require a paid developer account, which I do not and probably will never do.

Running/allowing installations is pretty much the same, the notarization check can also be bypassed by using Open from right-clicking an installer package.

There are huge changes to the file system, though they are transparent to the user. Mainly, the system is now locked off in a read-only part of the file system. Ithink most of my installers are OK with this. Postgres, PostGIS and pgRouting may have problems, as they are installed in a part of the system that may not be accessible.

There are also new access provisions there may be a lot of alerts popping up asking to allow access to parts of the file system.

Well, my QGIS build is now an official alternate build, and the download hosting returns to my site. It seems many people think an all-in-one drag-n-drop installation is THE correct method of Mac app installation. Ill keep doing my build my way as long as I have the energy and interest (hopefully for a long time).

There may be some changes.

I need to work on some major updates GDAL 3, PROJ 6, Postgres/PostGIS.

Postgres finally updated to 9.6, along with the PostGIS (to 2.4.5) and pgRouting (to 2.6.1) extensions. As with the rest of the recent packages (GDAL, QGIS), minimum macOS 10.10. That includes the transition PostGIS and pgRouting for for Postgres 9.4, because of C++ needs for pgRouting.

This is a major upgrade, see the upgrade readme on the disk image for details. A quick summary from Postgres 9.4 to 9.6 in place:

Well, I finally finished another site overhaul/conversion. This time from Dokuwiki to WordPress. I kept the design the same as much as I could (I like it, even though its not as modern as some would like).

Download links are all the same. Blog posts are (will be eventually) all converted, but links have all changed (though they are similar). Most page links are the same, unless it ends with /index, these just need index dropped to work, I may work out some rewrite magic to take care of that.

BUT, there are some pages that I have dropped and/or simplified. I dont know if Ill convert the build notes section, its way out of date and I dont plan to maintain it.

Now that I have this (mostly) done, I can work on catching up with software

QGIS 3.0.1 and 2.18.18 are available, and now you can download it from the QGIS website!