From: Regina Obe <lr@pcorp.us>
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2026 11:15:39 -0400
Subject: PostGIS 3.7.0rc2 released
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> From: Sebastiaan Couwenberg via postgis-users <postgis-
> On 9/9/26 3:00 AM, Regina Obe wrote:
> > Hmm that shouldn't be needed.  My understanding is that it is
> > preferred but not required if you have ImageMagick or GraphMagick
> 
> The Debian package stopped building the docs because it fails with newer
> ImageMagick:
> 
>   https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/5593
> 
> We haven't bothered to re-enable the docs build after the changes at the end
> of that ticket.
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This is a bit concerning.  I'll double-check this but we did put in fixes so 
ImageMagick or GraphMagick can be used. https://gitea.osgeo.org/postgis/postgis/commit/95e8afa
Though now I notice that was for the old image building logic which we later ripped out.

Though with the new setup any of those should still be supported per

https://gitea.osgeo.org/postgis/postgis/src/branch/master/doc/html/images/Makefile.in#L56