1.7.0 release

[sgillies]

1.7a1 is on PyPI now: https://pypi.org/project/Shapely/1.7a1/#files. There are only 2 remaining issues on the 1.7 milestone, so we should be able to have a release candidate soon. How about August 6?

[AluminumOxide]

Any idea on when this will get released? Looking to get the changes from #592, without running latest master :) Thanks!

[songololo]

Would also be nice to have official access to ops.substring in 1.7!

[drnextgis]

@sgillies are you planning to do release when all issues are fixed?

[sgillies]

👋 1.7a3 is available for testing now.

[sgillies]

1.7.0 wheels have been made by https://ci.appveyor.com/project/frsci/shapely/builds/30395058 and https://travis-ci.com/shapely/shapely-wheels/builds/146326082. Unless a show stopping bug is found, we'll release these 2020-01-28 (morning, US Mountain time).

[astrojuanlu]

Are users supposed to test these wheels? I tried to download Shapely-1.7.0-cp37-cp37m-manylinux1_x86_64.whl but got a permission error.

[sgillies]

@Juanlu001 we're asking users to test 1.7b1, we've published windows wheels to PyPI for that beta release.

[astrojuanlu]

@sgillies Thanks! I didn't see the beta wheels

[jorisvandenbossche]

@sgillies sorry for the slow reply on the beta issues where you tagged me.
There was one recent change that caused some failures in GeoPandas (already fixed in master, geopandas/geopandas#1244), which was related to the bool(empty_geometry) behavior changes: #812

I personally think a bool(..) behavior of always returning True is better than returning False for empties. But since a change either way (always True vs always False for empty geometries, now it gave True or False depending on the "kind" of empty geometry) will always have caused behaviour changes for some cases, the failures in geopandas is certainly nothing blocking for the release.

[jorisvandenbossche]

We recently started to test against Shapely master on GeoPandas' CI, and apart from the non-critical issue mentioned above, all green for us!

[sgillies]

Here we go: https://pypi.org/project/Shapely/1.7.0/#files. Share and enjoy! Thanks, everyone.