Dask-geopandas

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Packaging:

- `dask>=2025.1.0` is now required.
- `python>=3.10` is now required.

Bug fixes:

- Fixed `GeoDataFrame.drop` returning a `GeoDataFrame`
instead of a `DataFrame`, when dropping the geometry
column (321).

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Bug fixes:

- Ensure `read_file()` produces a correct empty meta object, avoiding later
errors in `spatial_shuffle()` (302).
- Fix in `sjoin()` to work with GeoDataFrames after a `spatial_shuffle()` (303).

Packaging:

- `distributed` was dropped as a required dependency, only depending on
`dask[dataframe]` (258).

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Bug fixes:

- Allow to run dask-geopandas with recent dask versions without using query
planning (without dask-expr being installed).

Packaging:

- The `dask` dependency was updated to `dask[dataframe]` in pyproject.toml (when
installing from source or binary wheels from PyPI). This ensures dask-expr
gets installed automatically for recent versions of dask.

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Enhancements:

- Added preliminary support for dask's new query planning (dask >= 2024.3.0) (285).
- Added support for using dask-geopandas with distributed's P2P shuffle (this
requires the latest distributed>=2024.6.0 to work) (295).
- Added new `from_wkb()` and `from_wkt()` functions to convert a dask Series of
WKB or WKT values into a dask-geopandas GeoSeries (293).

Notes on dependencies:

- Removed support for PyGEOS, now requiring Shapely >= 2 (280).
- Updated minimum supported versions of dependencies, now requiring Python 3.9,
GeoPandas 0.12, numpy 1.23 and dask/distributed 2022.06.0.

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Bug fixes:

- Compatibility with dask >= 2023.4 and changes regarding ``use_nullable_dtypes``
keyword (242).
- Ensure ``spatial_partitions`` are preserved when serialized deserialized
with pickle (237).

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Enhancements:

- Dask-GeoPandas is now compatible with Shapely 2.0 (and if this version is
installed, no longer requires PyGEOS)

Bug fixes:

- Compatibility with dask >= 2022.12 for ``read_parquet()`` (230) and for
``dissolve()`` (229)
- Fix the ``spatial_partitions`` of the result of ``sjoin()`` (216)