1.9b2

[sgillies]

1.9b2 (2023-01-22)

The second 1.9 beta release is ready for early testing. All of the features planned for 1.9.0 are in this release.

The binary wheels on PyPI include GDAL 3.5.3, GEOS 3.11.1, and PROJ 9.0.1. To try the wheels, run pip install --pre fiona.

Changes

• Add Feature.__geo_interface__ property (Add __geo_interface__ to Feature #1181).
• Invalid creation options are filtered and ignored (Invalid creation options are filtered and ignored #1180).
• The readme doc has been shortened and freshened up, with a modern example for version 1.9.0 (Update and streamline the readme #1174). Advanced installation instructions have been moved to a separate doc.
• The Geometry class now provides and looks for __geo_interface__ (Update and streamline the readme #1174).
• The top level fiona module now exports Feature, Geometry, and Properties (Update and streamline the readme #1174).
• Functions that take Feature or Geometry objects will continue to take dicts or objects that provide __geo_interface__ (Undo deprecation of dicts #1177). This reverses the deprecation introduced in 1.9a2.
• Python ignores SIGPIPE by default. By never catching BrokenPipeError via except Exception when, for example, piping the output of rio-shapes to the Unix head program, we avoid getting an unhandled BrokenPipeError message when the interpreter shuts down (#2689).

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This discussion was created from the release 1.9b2.

[sgillies]

If no show stoppers are found, 1.9.0 will be released Monday, 2023-01-30.

[jorisvandenbossche]

With those latest changes (#1177), the geopandas test suite now runs without changes without warnings with this latest beta. Thanks!