Apache Sedona 1.4.0

Binary download link: https://sedona.apache.org/1.4.0/download/
Release notes: https://sedona.apache.org/1.4.0/setup/release-notes/
Maven coordinate: https://sedona.apache.org/1.4.0/setup/maven-coordinates/

What's Changed

• [SEDONA-216] Upgrade jts version to 1.19.0 by @awadhesh14 in #729
• [DOCS] Fix failed Python CI caused by the release of Shapely 2.0 by @jiayuasu in #732
• [DOCS] remove DBI call in test-spatial-queries.R by @yitao-li in #731
• [SEDONA-217] Automatically broadcast small datasets. by @umartin in #730
• [SEDONA-218] Fix a flaky test caused by improper handling of null struct values in Adapter.toDf by @Kontinuation in #733
• [SEDONA-205] Use BinaryType in GeometryUDT in Sedona Spark. by @umartin in #734
• [SEDONA-215] Add ST_ConcaveHull by @awadhesh14 in #737
• [DOCS] Add the news about Sedona 1.3.1-incubating and fix a bunch of typos by @jiayuasu in #738
• [SEDONA-207] Implemented a new geometry serde for supporting Z/M dimensions and better performance by @Kontinuation in #739
• [SEDONA-226] Support reading and writing GeoParquet file metadata by @Kontinuation in #740
• [SEDONA-207] Remove dependency to spark from UnsafeGeometryBuffer in sedona-common by @Kontinuation in #741
• [SEDONA-212] Rework dependency management by @Kimahriman in #735
• [SEDONA-228] Standardize logging modules by @Kimahriman in #743
• [SEDONA-223] Add ST_Split by @douglasdennis in #742
• [SEDONA-230] rdd.saveAsGeoJSON should generate feature properties with field names by @jiayuasu in #746
• [SEDONA-156] Support spatial filter push-down for GeoParquetFileFormat by @Kontinuation in #744
• [SEDONA-227] Python Serde Refactor by @douglasdennis in #745
• [SEDONA-232] Upgrade CICD From Spark 3.2.0 to 3.2.3 by @douglasdennis in #747
• [SEDONA-233] Incorrect results for several joins in a single stage by @umartin in #748
• [SEDONA-221] Outer join throws NPE for null geometries. by @umartin in #749
• [DOCS] Remove all incubator stuff and fix dead links due to version selector by @jiayuasu in #750
• [SEDONA-234] ST_Point inconsistencies by @umartin in #751
• [SEDONA-236] Fix flaky python tests related to converting GeoPandas DataFrames to Spark DataFrames by @Kontinuation in #753
• [SEDONA-179] Claim OGC compliance by @BarbieQkiller in #755
• [DOCS] fix spelling by @jbampton in #756
• [DOCS] Fix broken links, spelling and whitespace by @jbampton in #757
• [DOCS] Fix spelling in Markdown and Python files by @jbampton in #758
• [DOCS] Fix spelling by @jbampton in #759
• [DOCS] Fix spelling by @jbampton in #760
• [DOCS] Fix spelling by @jbampton in #761
• [DOCS] Markdown: Standardize code block linguist languages by @jbampton in #763
• [DOCS] Fix spelling by @jbampton in #765
• [SEDONA-207] Fix ambiguity of empty multi-geometries and multi geometries containing only empty geometries by @Kontinuation in #766
• [SEDONA-199] Update documentation for ST_NDims as it now supports M dimension. by @Kontinuation in #768
• [SEDONA-242] R: Update dependencies + fix failing test by @gregleleu in #769
• [SEDONA-227] Implemented Python geometry serializer as a native extension by @Kontinuation in #767
• [SEDONA-226] Replace AnalysisException with IllegalArgumentException in GeoParquet reader since AnalysisException has breaking ABI changes between Spark 3.0 and 3.3 by @Kontinuation in #771
• [SEDONA-243] R features: read/write geoparquet, get names from shapefiles by @gregleleu in #770
• [SEDONA-249] Add jvm flags for running tests on Java 17 by @umartin in #772
• [SEDONA-235] Integrate S2, add ST_S2CellIDs by @zongsizhang in #764
• [SEDONA-251] Add raster type to Sedona by @umartin in #773
• [DOCS] Fix spelling by @jbampton in #774
• [SEDONA-252] Fix RS_Base64 test by @jiayuasu in #776
• [SEDONA-253] Upgrade geotools to version 28.2 by @umartin in #780
• [DOCS] Fix typo by @jbampton in #777
• [DOCS] ipynb: remove unneeded whitespace by @jbampton in #778
• [SEDONA-244][SEDONA-246] R align spark_read/write functions by @gregleleu in #779
• [SEDONA-255] R – Translation issue for ST_Point and ST_PolygonFromEnvelope by @gregleleu in #781
• [SEDONA-250][SEDONA-253] R - Update dependencies + drop 2.4 by @gregleleu in #783
• [SEDONA-254] R – Add tests for RasterUDT by @gregleleu in #785
• [SEDONA-256] R GitHub workflow update by @gregleleu in #786
• [SEDONA-229] Remove Duplicate String Check by @douglasdennis in #787
• [SEDONA-229] Fix Flink Return Tags by @douglasdennis in #788
• [DOCS] Upgrade GitHub Action to Ubuntu 22.04 by @jiayuasu in #790
• [SEDONA-229] Fix Linter Messages in Python Adapter by @douglasdennis in #789
• [SEDONA-229] Fix Linter Issues in Viz by @douglasdennis in #791
• [SEDONA-258] Fix deserialization of Circle objects in python-adapter by @Kontinuation in #793
• [SEDONA-259] Properly implement Adapter.toSpatialRdd to support custom field names for user data by @Kontinuation in #794
• [SEDONA-261] Allow distance expression in distance join to reference attributes from the right-side relation when running broadcast join. by @Kontinuation in #796
• [SEDONA-260] Don't swap the left and right relations of spatial joins by @Kontinuation in #795
• [SEDONA-262] Don't optimize equi-join by default, add an option to configure when to optimize spatial joins by @Kontinuation in #797
• [SEDONA-245] R include man pages + use pkgdown for package documentation by @gregleleu in #798
• [SEDONA-231] Redundant Serde Elimination by @douglasdennis in #792
• [DOCS] Update the docs for 1.4.0 release by @jiayuasu in #799

New Contributors

• @awadhesh14 made their first contribution in #729

Full Changelog: sedona-1.3.1-incubating...sedona-1.4.0