Partial update of the change log for 1.8a1
Changes
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-1.8.0 (TBD)
+1.8a1 (TBD)
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+Deprecations:
+
+- ops.cascaded_union will be removed in version 2.0.0.
+- More ...
+
New features:
+- Add a normalize() method to geometry classes, exposing the GEOSNormalize
+ algorithm (#1090).
+- Initialize STRtree with a capacity of 10 items per node (#1070).
- Load libraries relocated to shapely/.libs by auditwheel versions < 3.1 or
relocated to Shapely.libs by auditwheel versions >= 3.1.
- shapely.ops.voronoi_diagram() computes the Voronoi Diagram of a geometry or
geometry collection (#833, #851).
- shapely.validation.make_valid() fixes invalid geometries (#883)
+Bug fixes:
+
+- Several issues with duplication and order of vertices in ops.substring have
+ been fixed (#1008).
+
1.7.1 (2020-08-20)
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