This is the second beta release for Fiona 1.10. There are no new features, only bug fixes:
Bug fixes
- The Pyopener registry and VSI plugin have been rewritten to avoid filename conflicts and to be compatible with multithreading. Now, a new plugin handler is registered for each instance of using an opener (#1408). Before GDAL 3.9.0 plugin handlers cannot not be removed and so it may be observed that the size of the Pyopener registry grows during the execution of a program.
- A CSLConstList ctypedef has been added and is used where appropriate (#1404).
- Fiona model objects have a informative, printable representation again (#1380).
Packaging
- PyPI wheels include GDAL 3.9.1 and curl 8.8.0.
Please see the CHANGES file for a more detailed enumeration of changes since version 1.9.6. Unless showstopper bugs are found in this release, expect a release candidate in two weeks.