This is a major release with significant amount of modifications, including some breaking changes:
- Support for NumPy 2.0 (thanks to @cvanelteren).
- Support for Python 3.13.
- Removal of support for end-of-life Python versions (Python < 3.9).
- New workflow for automated wheels based on
cibuildwheel
with all major platforms (thanks to @cvanelteren). - New repository structure with more focus on the
basemap
main package versus the auxiliary data packages. - Migration to implicit namespace packages (thanks to @ksunden).
Please visit the CHANGELOG
for a complete list of changes.