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Changes of Note

(please note the release notes also include bug fixes that were in 2.9.1-2.9.3)

Add min_clamp, max_clamp, and nodata options to filters.hag_dem by @hobu in #4828
Merge handling of reader_args for readers.tindex and readers.stac by @ibell13 in #4743
Support transform_beam in filters.georeference by @gui2dev in #4894
pdal tindex: read input from a list of files by @ibell13 in #4919
Created PointGrid quadtree index, added to filters.m3c2 by @ibell13 in #4918
Add radius distance search to filters.relaxationdartthrowing filter by @ibell13 in #4903
allow user to write pdal_metadata with writers.copc by @hobu in #4898
readers.rxp Add UnambiguousRange and ShotTimestamp dimensions, export empty shots by @gui2dev in #4893
Update libE57Format to v3.3.0 by @petercwq in #4884
Find neighbors in filters.normal with radius, move processing by @ibell13 in #4882
Add custom class arguments for ground classification filters by @kasparas-k in #4867
Add support for retrieving distances in radius search. by @abellgithub in #4878
writers.gdal: add percentile calculation by @ibell13 in #4839
Add class argument for hag_delaunay, hag_dem and hag_nn filters by @kasparas-k in #4861

Support 0 as variable chunk indicator by @abellgithub in #4840
Suppress error messages from GDAL/PROJ when infering metadata type SRSs by @hobu in #4820
consolidate dumpSummary of QuickInfo into a method by @hobu in #4758
Change filters.georeference to output ECEF EPSG:4978 by @gui2dev in #4902
Emit warnings for pdal tindex hexbin boundary failures by @ibell13 in #4831

Treat raster cells very close to a triangle edge as on the edge for filters.faceraster by @abellgithub in #4756
Use namespace-qualified name for spz library. by @abellgithub in #4783
Second update ArrowReader.cpp for Arrow 21+ by @amoeba in #4777
Serialize JSON MetadataNode objects to pipelines as JSON (fixes FileSpec, OGRSpec and user_data node serialization) by @ibell13 in #4752
readers.ept: terminate threads properly for tile errors by @ibell13 in #4798
Fix reading of non-XYZ from binary PCD. by @abellgithub in #4937
Remove attempted support for clipping invalid bounds. by @abellgithub in #4939
readers.ept: reject tiles with bad hierarchy point counts by @ibell13 in #4941
Fix parsing of expressions containing parentheses by @abellgithub in #4921
Catch some garbage file information in LAS files by @abellgithub in #4915
Restore point order to previous implementation in filters.hexbin by @abellgithub in #4901
Only specify JSON-compatible types when serializing pipelines by @ibell13 in #4841
Fix Connector segfault on 404 from /vsis3/ path by @craigds in #4852
Suppress error messages from GDAL/PROJ when infering metadata type SRSs by @abellgithub in #4819
pdal::StageWrapper::run needs to execute for empty readers by @hobu in #4807

Alias PDAL_DLL => PDAL_EXPORT and warn users to upgrade if it is defined by @hobu in #4811
Update CMakeLists.txt by @houyongkuo in #4766
fix build issue on gentoo by @t0b3 in #4747
CMake modules cleanup by @hobu in #4749
Fix build without googletest when WITH_TESTS=OFF by @aleixpol in #4753
Update ArrowWriter.cpp to work with Arrow 21.0.0 by @amoeba in #4773
Fix multi-line comment warning by @dg0yt in #4744
Fix sorting on Windows. by @abellgithub in #4788
Back to vendor'd gtest by @abellgithub in #4801
Make sure to Flush() in VSIStreamBuffer::sync() by @hobu in #4806
Build: remove use of GDAL_INCLUDE_DIR by @rouault in #4905
GDAL 3.13 changed return of GetMetadata to return a CSLConstList by @jef-n in #4929
writers.gdal: fix allow_empty option by @ibell13 in #4928
Allow alternate shared library output name with PDALCPP_LIB_OUTPUT_NAME CMake variable by @jef-n in #4932
readers.copc & readers.ept: reset members in ready() by @ibell13 in #4913
Eliminate need for external linkage of GDAL-typed API function by @abellgithub in #4888
Isolate COPC remote reader test by @abellgithub in #4892
use GDAL CMake CONFIG for finding/configuring the library by @hobu in #4881
Remove dead code from Kazhdan's ply.h by @abellgithub in #4857

Create ARM64 PDAL docker image by @j9ac9k in #4810
expand the Conda install invocations to show different configurations by @hobu in #4916