Version 0.14.3

This release fixes a bug related to spatial indexing of spatialpandas.GeoDataFrames, and introduces enhancements to antialiased lines, benchmarking and GPU support.

Thanks to first-time contributors @eriknw and @raybellwaves, and also @ianthomas23 and @maximlt.

Enhancements:

• Improvements to antialiased lines:

  • Fit antialiased line code within usual numba/dask framework (#1142)
  • Refactor stage 2 aggregation for antialiased lines (#1145)
  • Support compound reductions for antialiased lines on the CPU (#1146)

• New benchmark framework:

  • Add benchmarking framework using asv (#1120)
  • Add cudf, dask and dask-cudf Canvas.line benchmarks (#1140)

• Improvements to GPU support:

  • Cupy implementation of eq_hist (#1129)

• Improvements to documentation:

  • Fix markdown syntax for link (#1119)
  • Add text link to https://examples.pyviz.org/datashader_dashboard (#1123)

• Improvements to dependency management (#1111, #1116)

• Improvements to CI (#1132, #1135, #1136, #1137, #1143)

Bug fixes:

• Ensure spatial index _sindex is retained on dataframe copy (#1122)