pyogrio 0.12.0

Version v0.12.0

on Python PyPI

Potentially breaking changes

• Return JSON fields (as identified by GDAL) as dicts/lists in read_dataframe;
  these were previously returned as strings (#556).
• Drop support for GDAL 3.4 and 3.5 (#584).

Improvements

• Add datetime_as_string and mixed_offsets_as_utc parameters to read_dataframe
  to choose the way datetime columns are returned + several fixes when reading and
  writing datetimes (#486).
• Add listing of GDAL data types and subtypes to read_info (#556).
• Add support to read list fields without arrow (#558, #597).

Bug fixes

• Fix decode error reading an sqlite file on Windows (#568).
• Fix wrong layer name when creating .gpkg.zip file (#570).
• Fix segfault on providing an invalid value for layer in read_info (#564).
• Fix error when reading data with use_arrow=True after having used the
  Parquet driver with GDAL>=3.12 (#601).

Packaging

• Wheels are now available for Python 3.14 (#579).
• The GDAL library included in the wheels is upgraded from 3.10.3 to 3.11.4 (#578).
• Add libkml driver to the wheels for more recent Linux platforms supported
  by manylinux_2_28, macOS, and Windows (#561).
• Add libspatialite to the wheels (#546).
• Minimum required Python version is now 3.10 (#557).
• Initial support for free-threaded Python builds, with the extension module
  declaring free-threaded support and wheels for Python 3.13t and 3.14t being
  built (#562).