Release of pgRouting version 4.0.2

krashish8 · September 6, 2026, 11:24am

Hello pgRouting community,

The pgRouting Team is pleased to announce the release of pgRouting version 4.0.2

The latest release is available at [1]

For discussions on the release, go to [2]

To see all issues & pull requests closed by this release see the Git closed milestone for 4.0.2 on Github. [3]

Summary of changes by function

pgr_dijkstraVia
- Fix: bad alloc
pgr_drivingDistance
- Standardizing negative distance behaviour
  - Throws when :math:distance < 0.
  - Standard message and hint.
pgr_withPointsDD
- Standardizing negative distance behaviour
  - Throws when :math:distance < 0.
  - Standard message and hint.
pgr_withPointsVia
- Fix: bad alloc

Bug Fixes

#3110: pgr_dijkstraVia throws std::bad_alloc when a node does not exist
#3091: Catchment functions when negative distance do not have a standardized behaviour

To update your database

Download the packaged version from your operating system, and use this command in the database:

ALTER EXTENSION pgrouting UPDATE TO “4.0.2”;