First release candidate for version 1.5
High level overview:
- Requires Python >= 3.12, GDAL >= 3.8, and numpy >= 2.
- Improved compatibility with GDAL 3.11 & 3.12
- Supports more dtypes
- Invalidate cache methods
- Adds
CRS.geodetic_crs - More accurate reverse transforms
- Plot RGB images missing color interpretation
- Add thread safe read-only support
- Search for GDAL installation path on Windows
- Bug fixes 🐛
Changes since previous pre-release
- TST: skip test_memfile_thread_safe_option on Windows (#3501)
- Deploy only when all tests pass. Use jpeg-turbo (#3497)
- TST: Move platform specific skips to test code & re-enable tests (#3502)
- feat: add support for other Azure credentials (#3482)
- Enable tests on Windows runners (#3498)
- Search for GDAL installation path on Windows (#3498)
Detailed summary
Changes since previous pre-release: 1.5a1...1.5rc0
Full Changelog: 1.4.4...1.5rc0