Changes¶

1.4.0: 2025-03-06¶

Python 3.9+ is now required (#321)
Add support for array-based bulk insert with NumPy (#340 by @FreddieWitherden)
Upgrade binary wheels with libspatialindex-2.1.0 (#353)
Rename project and other build components to “rtree” (#350)

1.3.0: 2024-07-10¶

Upgrade binary wheels with libspatialindex-2.0.0 (#316)
Fix binary wheels for musllinux wheels (#316)
Update code style, replace isort and black with ruff, modern numpy rng (#319)
Remove libsidx version testing (#313)

1.2.0: 2024-01-19¶

Fix test failure with built library (#291 by @sebastic)
Include spatialindex headers and add get_include() (#292 by @JDBetteridge)

1.1.0: 2023-10-17¶

Python 3.8+ is now required (#273)
Move project metadata to pyproject.toml (#269)
Refactor built wheels for PyPI (#276)
Fix memory leak when breaking mid-way in _get_objects and _get_ids (#266) (thanks @akariv!)

1.0.1: 2022-10-12¶

Fix up type hints #243 (thanks @oderby)
Python 3.11 wheels #250 (thanks @ewouth)

1.0.0: 2022-04-05¶

Python 3.7+ is now required (#212) (thanks @adamjstewart!)
Type hints (#215 and others) (thanks @adamjstewart!)
Python 3.10 wheels, including osx-arm64 #224
Clean up libspatialindex C API mismatches #222 (thanks @musicinmybrain!)
Many doc updates, fixes, and type hints (thanks @adamjstewart!) #212 #221 #217 #215
__len__ method for index #194
Prevent get_coordinate_pointers from mutating inputs #205 (thanks @sjones94549!)
linux-aarch64 wheels #183 (thanks @odidev!)
black (#218) and flake8 (#145) linting

0.9.3: 2019-12-10¶

find_library and libspatialindex library loading #131

0.9.2: 2019-12-09¶

Refactored tests to be based on unittest #129
Update libspatialindex library loading code to adapt previous behavior #128
Empty data streams throw exceptions and do not partially construct indexes #127

0.9.0: 2019-11-24¶

Add Index.GetResultSetOffset()
Add Index.contains() method for object and id (requires libspatialindex 1.9.3+) #116
Add Index.Flush() #107
Add TPRTree index support (thanks @sdhiscocks #117)
Return container sizes without returning objects #90
Add set_result_limit and set_result_offset for Index paging 44ad21a

Bug fixes:

Better exceptions in cases where stream functions throw #80
Migrated CI platform to Azure Pipelines https://dev.azure.com/hobuinc/rtree/_build?definitionId=5
Minor test enhancements and fixups. Both libspatialindex 1.8.5 and libspatialindex 1.9.3 are tested with CI

0.8: 2014-07-17¶

Support for Python 3 added.

0.7.0: 2011-12-29¶

0.7.0 relies on libspatialindex 1.7.1+.
int64_t’s should be used for IDs instead of uint64_t (requires libspatialindex 1.7.1 C API changes)
Fix __version__
More documentation at http://toblerity.github.com/rtree/
Class documentation at http://toblerity.github.com/rtree/class.html
Tweaks for PyPy compatibility. Still not compatible yet, however.
Custom storage support by Mattias (requires libspatialindex 1.7.1)

0.6.0: 2010-04-13¶

0.6.0 relies on libspatialindex 1.5.0+.
intersection() and nearest() methods return iterators over results instead of lists.
Number of results for nearest() defaults to 1.
libsidx C library of 0.5.0 removed and included in libspatialindex
objects=”raw” in intersection() to return the object sent in (for speed).
count() method to return the intersection count without the overhead of returning a list (thanks Leonard Norrgård).
Improved bulk loading performance
Supposedly no memory leaks :)
Many other performance tweaks (see docs).
Bulk loader supports interleaved coordinates
Leaf queries. You can return the box and ids of the leaf nodes of the index. Useful for visualization, etc.
Many more docstrings, sphinx docs, etc

0.5.0: 2009-08-06¶

0.5.0 was a complete refactoring to use libsidx - a C API for libspatialindex. The code is now ctypes over libsidx, and a number of new features are now available as a result of this refactoring.

ability to store pickles within the index (clustered index)
ability to use custom extension names for disk-based indexes
ability to modify many index parameters at instantiation time
storage of point data reduced by a factor of 4
bulk loading of indexes at instantiation time
ability to quickly return the bounds of the entire index
ability to return the bounds of index entries
much better windows support
libspatialindex 1.4.0 required.

0.4.3: 2009-06-05¶

Fix reference counting leak #181

0.4.2: 2009-05-25¶

Windows support

0.4.1: 2008-03-24¶

Eliminate uncounted references in add, delete, nearestNeighbor (#157).

0.4: 2008-01-24¶

Testing improvements.
Switch dependency to the single consolidated spatialindex library (1.3).

0.3: 26 November 2007¶

Change to Python long integer identifiers (#126).
Allow deletion of objects from indexes.
Reraise index query errors as Python exceptions.
Improved persistence.

0.2: 19 May 2007¶

Link spatialindex system library.

0.1: 13 April 2007¶

Add disk storage option for indexes (#320).
Change license to LGPL.
Moved from Pleiades to GIS-Python repo.
Initial release.