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Version 3.13.0

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The 3.13 release of GEOS is now available to download.

The headline features of this release are:

  • A new approach to boolean predicates via RelateNG

    • Faster performance for many cases where a short circuit is available
    • Avoiding the full computation of a topology graph for every call
    • Ability to use a high speed “prepared” approach for the complete set of predicates as well as the relate matrix functions

  • Initial support for ISO SQL/MM curve types

    • Create, read and write support for CircularString, CompoundCurve, CurvedPolygon, MultiCurve, MultiSurface

This release includes the following new features in the C API (and of course underlying changes to the C++ code to support these features):

  • GEOSGeom_createEmptyCircularString() creates a new empty CircularString
  • GEOSGeom_createCircularString(coordseq) creates a CircularString with the supplied coordinates
  • GEOSGeom_createEmptyCompoundCurve() creates a new empty CompoundCurve
  • GEOSGeom_createCompoundCurve(curves, ncurves) creates a CompoundCurve with the supplied components (start/end coordinates must match up)
  • GEOSGeom_createEmptyCurvePolygon() creates a new empty CurvePolygon
  • GEOSGeom_createCurvePolygon(shell, holes, nholes) creates a CurvePolygon with the supplied rings
  • GEOSPreparedRelate(prepgeom, geom) generates a DE9IM intersection matrix for the geometry pair, where one input has been “prepared” for fast repeated calls
  • GEOSPreparedRelatePattern(prepgeom, geom, pattern) tests a pair of geometry against a known DE9IM pattern to see if the relationship is consistent with the pattern

The full list of changes is as follows:

  • New things:

    • Add classes for curved geometry types (GH-1046, Dan Baston/German QGIS users group/Canton of Basel-Landschaft/Canton of Zug)
      • CircularString
      • CompoundCurve
      • CurvedPolygon
      • MultiCurve
      • MultiSurface
    • Support curved geometry types in WKT/WKB readers/writers (GH-1046, GH-1104, GH-1106, Dan Baston)
    • 3D read and write support for GeoJSON (GH-1150, Oreilles)
    • RelateNG (GH-1052 Martin Davis, Paul Ramsey)
      • Rewrite of boolean predicates and relate matrix calculations
      • “Prepared” mode now available for all predicates and relate matrix
      • CAPI functions GEOSPreparedRelate and GEOSPreparedRelatePattern expose new functionality
      • CAPI implementations of GEOSPreparedTouches, etc, that were previously defaulting into non-prepared implementations now default into the RelateNG prepared implementation
      • Prepared implementations for Intersects, Covers, still use the older implementations

  • Breaking Changes:

    • Zero-length linestrings (eg LINESTRING(1 1, 1 1)) are now treated as equivalent to points (POINT(1 1)) in boolean predicates
    • CMake 3.15 or later is required (GH-1143, Mike Taves)

  • Fixes/Improvements:

    • Add Angle::sinCosSnap to avoid small errors, e.g. with buffer operations (GH-978, Mike Taves)
    • WKTReader: Points with all-NaN coordinates are not considered empty anymore (GH-927, Casper van der Wel)
    • WKTWriter: Points with all-NaN coordinates are written as such (GH-927, Casper van der Wel)
    • ConvexHull: Performance improvement for larger geometries (JTS-985, Martin Davis)
    • Distance: Improve performance, especially for point-point distance (GH-1067, Dan Baston)
    • Intersection: change to using DoubleDouble computation to improve robustness (GH-937, Martin Davis)
    • Fix LargestEmptyCircle to respect polygonal obstacles (GH-939, Martin Davis)
    • Fix WKTWriter to emit EMPTY elements in multi-geometries (GH-952, Mike Taves)
    • Fix IncrementalDelaunayTriangulator to ensure triangulation boundary is convex (GH-953, Martin Davis)
    • Fix PreparedLineStringDistance for lines within envelope and polygons (GH-959, Martin Davis)
    • Improve scale handling for PrecisionModel (GH-956, Martin Davis)
    • Fix error in CoordinateSequence::add when disallowing repeated points (GH-963, Dan Baston)
    • Fix WKTWriter::writeTrimmedNumber for big and small values (GH-973, Mike Taves)
    • Fix InteriorPointPoint to handle empty elements (GH-977, Martin Davis)
    • Fix TopologyPreservingSimplifier endpoint handling to avoid self-intersections (GH-986, Martin Davis)
    • Fix spatial predicates for MultiPoint with EMPTY (GH-989, Martin Davis)
    • Fix DiscreteHausdorffDistance for LinearRing (GH-1000, Martin Davis)
    • Fix IsSimpleOp for MultiPoint with empty element (GH-1005, Martin Davis)
    • Fix PreparedPolygonContains for GC with MultiPoint (GH-1008, Martin Davis)
    • Fix reading WKT with EMPTY token with white space (GH-1025, Mike Taves)
    • Fix buffer Inverted Ring Removal check (GH-1056, Martin Davis)
    • Add PointLocation.isOnSegment and remove LineIntersector point methods (GH-1083, Martin Davis)
    • Densify: Interpolate Z coordinates (GH-1094)
    • GEOSLineSubstring: Fix crash on NaN length fractions (GH-1088, Dan Baston)
    • MinimumClearance: Fix crash on NaN inputs (GH-1082, Dan Baston)
    • Centroid: Fix crash on polygons with empty holes (GH-1075, Dan Baston)
    • GEOSRelatePatternMatch: Fix crash on invalid DE-9IM pattern (GH-1089, Dan Baston)
    • CoveragePolygonValidator: add section performance optimization (GH-1099, Martin Davis)
    • TopologyPreservingSimplifier: fix to remove ring endpoints safely (GH-1110, Martin Davis)
    • TopologyPreservingSimplifier: fix stack overflow on degenerate inputs (GH-1113, Dan Baston)
    • DouglasPeuckerSimplifier: fix stack overflow on NaN tolerance (GH-1114, Dan Baston)
    • GEOSConcaveHullOfPolygons: Avoid crash on zero-area input (GH-1076, Dan Baston)