First cut of 1.4 release notes.

git-svn-id: http://svn.osgeo.org/postgis/trunk@3843 b70326c6-7e19-0410-871a-916f4a2858ee

NEWS

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+PostGIS 1.4.0
+2008/03/XX
+        - New Features
+          - ST_Union() uses high-speed cascaded union when compiled against 
+            GEOS 3.1+ (Paul Ramsey)
+          - ST_Intersects(), ST_Contains(), ST_Within() use high-speed cached 
+            prepared geometry against GEOS 3.1+ (Paul Ramsey)
+          - Vastly improved documentation and reference manual 
+            (Regina Obe & Kevin Neufeld)
+          - Figures and diagram examples in the reference manual (Kevin Neufeld)
+          - ST_IsValidReason() returns readable explanations for validity 
+            failures (Paul Ramsey)
+          - ST_GeoHash() returns a geohash.org signature for geometries 
+            (Paul Ramsey)
+          - GTK+ multi-platform GUI for shape file loading (Paul Ramsey)
+          - ST_LineCrossingDirection() returns crossing directions (Paul Ramsey)
+          - ST_LocateBetweenElevations() returns sub-string based on Z-ordinate.
+            (Paul Ramsey)
+          - Geometry parser returns explicit error message about location of
+            syntax errors (Mark Cave-Ayland)
+          - ST_AsGeoJSON() return JSON formatted geometry (Olivier Courtin)
+        - Compatibility
+          - The versions below are the *minimum* requirements for PostGIS 1.4
+          - PostgreSQL 8.1 and higher on Linux
+          - PostgreSQL 8.2 and higher on Windows
+          - GEOS 3.0 and higher only
+          - PROJ4 4.5 and higher only
+        - Enhancements
+          - Core geometry system moved into independent library, liblwgeom.
+            (Mark Cave-Ayland)
+          - New build system uses PostgreSQL "pgxs" build bootstrapper. 
+            (Mark Cave-Ayland)
+          - Debugging framework formalized and simplified. (Mark Cave-Ayland)
+          - All build-time #defines generated at configure time and placed in 
+            headers for easier cross-platform support (Mark Cave-Ayland)
+          - Logging framework formalized and simplified (Mark Cave-Ayland)
+          - Expanded and more stable support for CIRCULARSTRING, 
+            COMPOUNDCURVE and CURVEPOLYGON, better parsing, wider support
+            in functions (Mark Leslie & Mark Cave-Ayland)
+          - Improved support for OpenSolaris
+          - Updated KML support (Olivier Courtin)
+          - Unit testing framework for liblwgeom (Paul Ramsey)
+          - New testing framework to comprehensively exercise every PostGIS 
+            function (Regine Obe)
+          - Performance improvements to all geometry aggregate functions
+            (Paul Ramsey)
+          - Support for the upcoming PostgreSQL 8.4 (Mark Cave-Ayland)
+          - Shp2pgsql and pgsql2shp re-worked to depend on the common 
+            parsing/unparsing code in liblwgeom (Mark Cave-Ayland)
+          - More attractive CSS for HTML documentation (Dane Springmeyer)
+        - Bug fixes
+          - 
+
+
+
 PostGIS 1.3.4
 2008/11/24
         - New Features