Version 1.6 will be the last major release of Gdspy, with development focused only on bug fixes.
Development will continue in a new project: [Gdstk, the GDSII Tool Kit](https://github.com/heitzmann/gdstk).
Users are encouraged to move from Gdspy to Gdstk: although their API is not 100% compatible, the new module should be familiar enough to allow a quick transition.
Change log:
* Added support for element properties.
* Added transformation support to Cell.copy.
* Layer/datatype filtering in get_polygons for Cell, CellReference and CellArray.
* Layer/datatype filtering in LayoutViewer.
* Removed global cache _bounding_boxes. Only cells cache their bounding boxes.
* Bug fixes (thanks Daniel Hwang for the contributions).
* Bug fix in Cell.copy where the whole dependency tree would be copied on a deep copy creation.