Spatialpandas

Date: 2025-02-18

This release adds support for the new Dask DataFrame query-planning API.
This also updates the minimum Python version to 3.10 and the minimum Pandas version to 2.0.
It also includes several enhancements and compatibility changes with upstream packages.
Many thanks to Azaya89 for contributing to this release and to maximlt and hoxbro for maintaining the project on an ongoing basis.

Enhancements

- Support the new Dask DataFrame query-planning API ([171](https://github.com/holoviz/spatialpandas/pull/171))
- Ensure that pandas dtype matches dask when loading data from parquet ([156](https://github.com/holoviz/spatialpandas/pull/156))

Compatibility:

- Numpy 2.0 ([140](https://github.com/holoviz/spatialpandas/pull/140), [#141](https://github.com/holoviz/spatialpandas/pull/141))
- Pandas 2.2 ([143](https://github.com/holoviz/spatialpandas/pull/143))
- Geopandas 1.0 ([148](https://github.com/holoviz/spatialpandas/pull/148))
- Numba 0.61 and Python 3.13 ([172](https://github.com/holoviz/spatialpandas/pull/172))

Bug fix:

- Use `importlib.util.find_spec` for `dask` detection ([163](https://github.com/holoviz/spatialpandas/pull/163))

Tests:

- Allow point comparison ([149](https://github.com/holoviz/spatialpandas/pull/149))
- Add example conftest ([150](https://github.com/holoviz/spatialpandas/pull/150))
- Fix download data for examples ([155](https://github.com/holoviz/spatialpandas/pull/155))
- Update resolution for floats in tests ([157](https://github.com/holoviz/spatialpandas/pull/157))
- Don't compare line length of zero size ([161](https://github.com/holoviz/spatialpandas/pull/161))

Infrastructure / CI:

- Move infrastructure to Pixi, Hatchling, Pre-commit, and Ruff ([142](https://github.com/holoviz/spatialpandas/pull/142))
- Enable Ruff rules ([151](https://github.com/holoviz/spatialpandas/pull/151), [#153](https://github.com/holoviz/spatialpandas/pull/153), [#154](https://github.com/holoviz/spatialpandas/pull/154), [#173](https://github.com/holoviz/spatialpandas/pull/173))
- Update test to use collector ([162](https://github.com/holoviz/spatialpandas/pull/162))
- Small updates to build infrastructure ([165](https://github.com/holoviz/spatialpandas/pull/165))
- Modify nighly-lock workflow to exclude forks ([174](https://github.com/holoviz/spatialpandas/pull/174))

Date: 2024-01-10

This release achieves compatibility with the recent versions of `fsspec` and `pandas`.

Enhancements:
- Construct `PolygonArray` or `MultiPolygonArray` from Exterior Coordinates ([312](https://github.com/holoviz/spatialpandas/pull/132))
- Improvements to CI ([129](https://github.com/holoviz/spatialpandas/pull/129) and [#134](https://github.com/holoviz/spatialpandas/pull/134))

Compatibility:
- Adapt glob to be compatible with the latest fsspec version ([133](https://github.com/holoviz/spatialpandas/pull/133))
- Drop support for Python 3.8 ([131](https://github.com/holoviz/spatialpandas/pull/131))
- Remove some pandas 2.1 future warnings ([130](https://github.com/holoviz/spatialpandas/pull/130))

Date: 2023-09-14

This is a compatibility release to support Pandas 2.1.

Compatibility:

- Support Pandas 2.1 [125](https://github.com/holoviz/spatialpandas/pull/125)
- Don't compare empty geometry tests against geopandas [127](https://github.com/holoviz/spatialpandas/pull/127)

Enhancements:

- Rename pyviz-dev as holoviz-dev [120](https://github.com/holoviz/spatialpandas/pull/120)
- Use holoviz_tasks/install action for CI [123](https://github.com/holoviz/spatialpandas/pull/123)

Date: 2023-05-26

This is a compatibility release to support numba 0.57 and Python 3.11, and fixes the reading of parquet files from remote filesystems.

Compatibility:

- Check compatibility with numba 0.57 and python 3.11 [113](https://github.com/holoviz/spatialpandas/pull/113)
- Fix read parquet from remote filesystems [115](https://github.com/holoviz/spatialpandas/pull/115)
- Set python-snappy as optional dependency [117](https://github.com/holoviz/spatialpandas/pull/117)
- Remove `pathlib.Path.enter` deprecation warnings [118](https://github.com/holoviz/spatialpandas/pull/118)

Enhancements:

- Improvements to CI ([112](https://github.com/holoviz/spatialpandas/pull/112) and [#114](https://github.com/holoviz/spatialpandas/pull/114))

Date: 2023-03-22

This is a compatibility release to support numpy 1.24 and pyarrow from version 1.0.0 to 11.0.0.

Compatibility:

- Drop support for pyarrow<0.16 ([108](https://github.com/holoviz/spatialpandas/pull/108))
- Remove all use of parquet's `validate_schema` ([110](https://github.com/holoviz/spatialpandas/pull/110))
- Support pyarrow back to version 1.0.0 ([111](https://github.com/holoviz/spatialpandas/pull/111))

Date: 2023-01-11

This is a compatibility release to provide support for NumPy 1.24.

Compatibility:

- Support NumPy 1.24 ragged array conversion ([107](https://github.com/holoviz/spatialpandas/pull/107))

Enhancements:

- Rename github default branch from `master` to `main` ([105](https://github.com/holoviz/spatialpandas/pull/105))