postgis (2.2.0~rc1+dfsg-1~exp2) experimental; urgency=medium Debian is now shipping PostGIS version 2.2 and dropped support for 2.1, meaning bug or security fixes will no longer be provided for the older one. This means it is strongly recommended to migrate all databases to the newer PostGIS version 2.2 as soon as possible. Of course, databases that are already using PostGIS 2.1 will continue to work. Note, however, that with this upgrade it is no longer possible to create version 2.1 of the extension PostGIS. Instead, 'CREATE EXTENSION postgis;' will now give you version 2.2. Note that this can also affects backups. -- Markus Wanner Sat, 26 Sep 2015 16:07:18 +0200 postgis (2.1.3+dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=high It has come to our attention that the PostGIS Raster support may give more privileges to users than an administrator is willing to grant. These include reading files from the filesystem and opening connections to network hosts. Both issues can be limited in existing installations by setting the GDAL_SKIP variable (in the PostgreSQL server environment) to the list of all gdal drivers, but some drivers would still be forceably loaded by some operations. This release strengthens the code to load no drivers by default and allows for a fine-grained tuning of what's allowed and what not through postgis-specific environment variables: - POSTGIS_GDAL_ENABLED_DRIVERS Specifies a list of GDAL drivers to _enable_ (rather than _skip_) By default all drivers are disabled. Example value: "GTiff PNG JPEG" - POSTGIS_ENABLE_OUTDB_RASTERS Enables read support for out-db raster bands if set to 1. By default out-db raster bands reading is disabled. On Debian, you can easily set these via the following file: /etc/postgresql/${PG_VERSION}/${CLUSTER_NAME}/environment -- Markus Wanner Wed, 21 May 2014 10:49:10 +0200