This release focuses on the packaging of the library. In summary:
* The library is split in three parts: `basemap`, `basemap-data` and `basemap-data-hires`.
* Precompiled wheels for the three packages are available in PyPI.
* Licensing is updated and clarified. The base license is MIT, with other components whose license is LGPL-2.1-only or LGPL-3.0-or-later.
* Main branch is moved to the name `develop`, while `master` is kept for creating releases. Please submit future PR to the `develop` branch.
Please visit the [`CHANGELOG`] for a complete list of changes.
[`CHANGELOG`]:
https://github.com/matplotlib/basemap/tree/v1.3.0/CHANGELOG.md
v1.2.2rel
This is quite likely the last release ever of basemap. Please move development efforts over to Cartopy!
This release fixes some incompatibilities with matplotlib v3.3+ and also newer versions of libgeos (tested against v1.6.1). Also fixes some incompatibilities with the make.py.