Exciting news, geometry processors, the latest feature release of GEOS is now 
available.

http://libgeos.org/posts/2023-06-27-geos-3-12-released/

This release includes the following new features in the C API (and of course 
underlying changes to the C++ code to support these features):

* GEOSDisjointSubsetUnion, anptimized union algorithm for inputs that can be 
divided into subsets.
* GEOSLineSubstring, to clip a line using a start and end fractional length.
* GEOSEqualsIdentical, to test exact equality (with regards to order, 
structure, etc) of two geometries.
* GEOSOrientPolygons, to enforce a ring orientation on all polygonal elements 
in the input geometry.
* GEOSSTRtree_build, to force an immediate build of an STRtree.
* GEOSConcaveHullByLength, to build a concave hull by removing the longest 
outer edges of the Delaunay Triangulation of the space between the polygons, 
until the specified maximm edge length is reached
* GEOSGeomGetM, to read the M-dimensional value of a geometry.
* GEOSVoronoiDiagram, returns the Voronoi polygons or edges of the vertices of 
the given geometry.
* GEOSCoverageSimplifyVW, GEOSCoverageUnion, GEOSCoverageIsValid for working 
with “polygonal coverages”, collections of polygons that follow coverage rules 
(no overlaps, exact vertex equivalence on shared edges).
* GEOSGeom_releaseCollection, to free a collection while leaving the 
sub-geometries intact.
* GEOSMinimumRotatedRectangle, a rework of the minimum rectangle code to be 
faster and more correct.

GEOS has been updated to read and write “M” dimension. As with the “Z” 
coordinate support, not all operations can preserve the “M” dimension, but best 
efforts are made to retain it through calculations, input and output.

Much infrastructure work on GEOS this cycle was funded by a GDAL maintenance 
grant, and carried out by the amazing Dan Baston. Read a summary of the work 
accomplished here.

https://www.mail-archive.com/gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org/msg39018.html 

Full news file for this release is available here.

https://github.com/libgeos/geos/blob/3.12.0/NEWS.md

For the very impatient, direct code download is here.

https://download.osgeo.org/geos/geos-3.12.0.tar.bz2


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