Shapely

improvements and bug fixes. Highlights include initial support for geometries
with M or ZM values, functionality for coverage validation and
simplification, and a set of new top-level functions.

Shapely supports Python >= 3.10, and binary wheels on PyPI include GEOS 3.13.1
and are now also provided for musllinux (Alpine) x86_64 platforms.

For a full changelog, see
https://shapely.readthedocs.io/en/latest/release/2.x.html#version-2-1-0

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Bug fixes:

- Fix compilation error on certain Linux platforms, such as Alpine (1945).
- Fixes crash when reading nonlinear geometry types (CircularString,
CompoundCurve, MultiCurve, CurvePolygon, MultiSurface) from WKB/WKT with
GEOS >= 3.13; these types are not yet supported in Shapely and now raise a
``NotImplementedError`` (2160)
- Fix the ``project`` method to return a Python float (2093).

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Bug fixes:

- Fix compatibility with NumPy 2.1.0 (2099).

Wheels are available for Python 3.13 (and still include GEOS 3.11.4).

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Binary wheels on PyPI include GEOS 3.11.4 from 2024-06-05. Furthermore,
universal2 wheels are removed for macOS since both x86_64 and arm64 wheels are
provided.

Bug fixes:

- Fix Point x/y/z attributes to return Python floats (2074).
- Fix affinity for Apple silicon with NumPy 2.0 by reverting matmul, and
use direct matrix multiplication instead (2085).

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Wheels for Python versions >= 3.9 will be compatible with the upcoming NumPy 2.0
release (as well as with supported NumPy 1.x versions).

Bug fixes:

- Fix bug in ``to_wkt`` with multiple empty Z geometries (2012).
- Fix bug in ``to_ragged_array`` for an array of Points with missing values (2034).

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- Fix regression in the ``oriented_envelope`` ufunc to accept array-like input
in case of GEOS<3.12 (1929).
- The binary wheels are not yet compatible with a future NumPy 2.0 release,
therefore a ``numpy<2`` upper pin was added to the requirements (1972).
- Upgraded the GEOS version in the binary wheel distributions to 3.11.3.