Changes

• WHL: Wheels contain PROJ 8.1.1
• DOC: Add new pyproj logo (issue #700)
• REF: Handle deprecation of proj_context_set_autoclose_database (issue #866)
• REF: Make CRS methods inheritable (issue #847)
• ENH: Added pyproj.crs.CRS.is_derived (pull #902)
• ENH: Added pyproj.crs.GeocentricCRS (pull #903)
• ENH: Added pyproj.crs.CRS.list_authority (issue #918)
• ENH: Added inplace kwarg to :meth:pyproj.transformer.Transformer.transform (issue #906)
• PERF: Disable unnecessary copy in dtype conversion for buffer (pull #904)
• DOC: Improve FAQ text about CRS formats (issue #789)
• BUG: Add PyPy cython array implementation (issue #854)
• BUG: Fix spelling for
  pyproj.crs.coordinate_operation.AzimuthalEquidistantConversion
  and pyproj.crs.coordinate_operation.LambertAzimuthalEqualAreaConversion (issue #882)
• BUG: Make datum name match exact in pyproj.database.query_utm_crs_info (pull #887)
• BUG: Update pyproj.enums.GeodIntermediateFlag for future Python compatibility (issue #855)
• BUG: Hide unnecessary PROJ ERROR from proj_crs_get_coordoperation (issue #873)
• BUG: Fix pickling for CRS builder classes (issue #897)
• CLN: Remove ignore_axis_order kwarg from pyproj.crs.CRS.is_exact_same as it was added by accident (pull #904)
• CLN: remove numeric/numarrays support (pull #908)
• LNT: Add pylint & address issues (pull #909)
• DEP: Remove distutils dependency (pull #917)

Acknowledgements

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release! The detailed bug reports are definitely appreciated. Additionally, thanks to those who help with the distribution!

Contributors

A total of 2 people contributed patches to this release. People with a
"+" by their names contributed a patch for the first time.

• Brendan Jurd + (Made the new logo!)
• Alan D. Snow

Other contributions:

• Bas Couwenberg - testing the builds with Debian.
• Jos de Kloe - testing the builds with Fedora.
• Christoph Gohlke - testing the builds on Windows & providing Window's wheels.
• Joris Van den Bossche - PR reviews.