This release includes major contributions from @jonmmease (polygon rendering, spatialpandas), along with contributions from @philippjfr and @brendancol (bugfixes), and @jbednar (docs, warnings, and import times).
New features:
- Polygon (and points and lines) rendering for spatialpandas extension arrays (#826, #853)
- Quadmesh GPU support (#861)
- Much faster import times (#863)
- New table in docs listing glyphs supported for each data library (#864,#867)
- Support for remote Parquet filesystems (#818,#866)
Bugfixes and compatibility:
- Misc bugfixes and improvements (#844, #860, #866)
- Fix warnings and deprecations in tests (#859)
- Fix Canvas.raster (padding, mode buffers, etc. #862)
Download and install: https://datashader.org/getting_started