Shapely

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Deprecations:

The almost_exact() method of BaseGeometry has been deprecated. It is confusing
and will be removed in 2.0.0. The equals_exact() method is to be used instead.

Bug fixes:

- We ensure that the _speedups module is always imported before _vectorized to
avoid an unexplained condition on Windows with Python 3.8 and 3.9 (1184).

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Deprecations:

The STRtree class deprecation warnings have been removed. The class in 2.0.0
will be backwards compatible with the class in 1.8.0.

Bug fixes:

- The __array_interface__ raises only AttributeError, all other exceptions are
deprecated starting with Numpy 1.21 (1173).
- The STRtree class now uses a pair of item, geom sequences internally instead
of a dict (1177).

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Python version support:

Shapely 1.8 will support only Python versions >= 3.6.

New features:

- The STRtree nearest*() methods now take an optional argument that
specifies exclusion of the input geometry from results (1115).
- A GeometryTypeError has been added to shapely.errors and is consistently
raised instead of TypeError or ValueError as in version 1.7. For backwards
compatibility, the new exception will derive from TypeError and Value error
until version 2.0 (1099).
- The STRtree class constructor now takes an optional second argument, a
sequence of objects to be stored in the tree. If not provided, the sequence
indices of the geometries will be stored, as before (1112).
- The STRtree class has new query_geoms(), query_items(), nearest_geom(), and
nearest_item() methods (1112). The query() and nearest() methods remain as
aliases for query_geoms() and nearest_geom().

Bug fixes:

- We no longer attempt to load libc to get the free function on Linux, but get
it from the global symbol table.
- GEOS error messages printed when GEOS_getCoordSeq() is passed an empty
geometry are avoided by never passing an empty geometry (1134).
- Python's builtin super() is now used only as described in PEP 3135 (1109).
- Only load conda GEOS dll if it exists (on Windows) (1108).
- Add /opt/homebrew/lib to the list of directories to be searched for the GEOS
shared library.
- Added new library search path to assist app creation with cx_Freeze.

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