Changes in 3.3.0
2011-05-??

- New things:
  - CAPI: GEOSBufferWithParams (allows single sided buffers)
  - CAPI: GEOSOffsetCurve deprecates GEOSSingleSidedBuffer
  - CAPI: GEOSUnaryUnion deprecates GEOSCascadedUnion
  - CAPI: GEOSisValidDetail: tell state, reason & location apart. allows
          passing flags.
  - CAPI: GEOSContext_setNoticeHandler_r, GEOSContext_setErrorHandler_r
  - CAPI: GEOSGeom_createEmptyPoint, GEOSGeom_createEmptyLineString
          GEOSGeom_createEmptyPolygon, GEOSGeom_createEmptyCollection
  - CAPI: GEOSGeom_extractUniquePoints
  - CAPI: GEOSGetGeometryN support for single geometries
  - CAPI: GEOSPolygonize_full to return all informations computed by
          the polygonizer
  - CAPI: GEOSOrientationIndex
  - CAPI: GEOSSharedPaths to find shared paths and their orientation
  - CAPI: GEOSSnap 
  - CAPI: GEOSRelatePatternMatch 
  - CAPI: GEOSCovers, GEOSCoveredBy (#396) 
  - CAPI: GEOSRelateBoundaryNodeRule (#399) 
  -  PHP: new PHP5 bindings based on CAPI
- Semantic C++ API changes:
  - Geometry inheritance chain changed to introduce Puntal, Lineal
    and Polygonal classes (virtual inheritance introduced)
  - Polygonizer::getInvalidRingLines retains ownership of vector elements
  - Geometry::isWithinDistance method is now const
  - Polygonizer::getCutEdges returns by const ref
  - Polygonizer::getDangles returns by const ref
  - Empty LinearRings are closed by definition
- Bug fixes / improvements
  - Fixed Geometry.distance() and DistanceOp to return 0.0 for empty inputs
  - Invalid compound geometries reported as valid (#333)
  - Return up to 15 digits of precision from GEOSisValidReason_t (#329)
  - CAPI: do not leak contexts when using the non-reentrant interface
  - Fix duplicated dangles returned by Polygonizer
  - Fix SnapIfNeededOverlayOp to throw the originating exception
  - Fixed LineMerger to skip lines with only a single unique coordinate
  - Fix NodedSegmentString to handle zero-length line segments correctly
    (via safeOctant)
  - Fixed buffer OffsetCurveSetBuilder to handle "flat" rings correctly
  - Added illegal state check in LineSegment::pointAlongOffset() 
  - Improved performance of RectangleIntersects by always using
    segment-scanning and refining SegmentIntersectionTester

Changes in 3.2.0 
2009-12-14

- Add Single-sided buffer operation
- JTS-1.10 sync ...
  - Drastically improved Buffer speed (20x for a case in testsuite)
  - Improved EdgeList duplicate edge finding
  - Added algorithm::distance package
  - Added algorithm::Angle class
  - Added algorithm::BoundaryNodeRule class
  - IsSimpleOp can now return non-simple location coordinate
  - DistanceOp can now check for 'within distance' predicate
    (earlier exit)
  - MultiPolygon::getBoundary always return MultiLineString, also
    when the result is the EMPTY geometry.
- Various bug and leak fixes, optimizations
- Replace MarkupSTL with tinyXML

Changes in 3.1.0

- PreparedGeometry operations for very fast predicate testing.
  - Intersects()
  - Covers() 
  - CoveredBy()
  - ContainsProperly()
- Easier builds under MSVC and OpenSolaris
- Thread-safe CAPI option
- IsValidReason added to CAPI
- GEOSPolygonizer_getCutEdges added to CAPI
- CascadedUnion operation for fast unions of geometry sets
- Numerous bug fixes.
  http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/query?status=closed&milestone=3.1.0&order=priority

Changes in 3.0.0

   These are mostly ABI breaking changes.
   In few cases the API also changed, but the most external one
   (the documented one) should be unchanged.

- New things:
	- Added geom::BinaryOp class performing a binary operation
	  using different heuristics to reduce probability of robustness
	  issues. Both C-API and XMLTester now use this class for
	  binary operations.
	- Added covers() and coveredBy() predicates to Geometry class
	- Added overlay::overlayOp() adapter class
	- Added GEOSSimplify() and GEOSTopologyPreserveSimplify()
	  to the C API
	- Added closed ring checks in IsValidOp
	- Multi-input support in XMLTester 
	- HEXWKB I/O
	- Envelope(string) ctor
	- Ruby interface
	- New ShortCircuitedGeometryVisitor class
	- New operation/predicate package
	- Added CGAlgorithms::isPointInRing() version working with
	  Coordinate::ConstVect type (faster!)
	- Added getAt(int pos, Coordinate &to) funtion to CoordinateSequence
	  class.
	- Moved GetNumGeometries() and GetGeometryN() interfaces
	  from GeometryCollection to Geometry class.
	- New planarSubgraph class
	- New ConnectedSubgraphFinder class.
	- New LineSequencer class
	- New WKTWriter::toLineString and ::toPoint convenience methods
	- New IsValidOp::setSelfTouchingRingFormingHoleValid method
	- New WKTWriter::toLineString and ::toPoint convenience methods
	- New IsValidOp::setSelfTouchingRingFormingHoleValid method
	- New Envelope::centre()
	- New Envelope::intersection(Envelope)
	- New Envelope::expandBy(distance, [ydistance])
	- New LineString::reverse()
	- New MultiLineString::reverse()
	- New Geometry::buffer(distance, quadSeg, endCapStyle)
	- New SnapRounding code
	- New size() and operator[] interfaces to CoordinateSequence
	- New ScaledNoder class
	- New unit tests (make check rule)

- Optimizations:
	- WKT parser speedup
	- Function inlining
	- Coordinate copies reduction
  	- Heap allocations reduction
	- More classes made final
	- Better use of standard containers
	- Use of singletons when appropriate
	- Removed many function calls in loops' end conditions
	- Improved XMLTester output and user interface
	- Improved memory use in geos::geom::util::PolygonExtractor
	- Ported JTS-1.7 version of ConvexHull with big attention to
	  memory usage optimizations.
	- Changed CoordinateArrayFilter to reduce memory copies
	- Changed UniqueCoordinateArrayFilter to reduce memory copies
	- Added rectangle-based optimizations of intersects() and
	  contains() ops
	- Inlined all planarGraphComponent class
	- More iterators returning methods and inlining in planargraph.
	- Obsoleted toInternalGeometry/fromInternalGeometry 
	- Improved buffering speed and robustness by using Snap Rounding

- Semantic changes

	- SegmentString: getCoordinates() doesn't return a clone
	  anymore, getCoordinatesRO() obsoleted.
	- JTS packages mapped to geos:: sub-namespaces
	- Geometry::getInteriorPoint() returns NULL if called
	  against an EMPTY geom
	- LineString::get{Start,End}Point return NULL for
	  EMPTY geoms
	- GEOSException is now derived by std::runtim_exception
	  and thrown by const reference.
	- Geometry constructors made protected, to force use
	  of a GeometryFactory.

- Correctness:
	- More const-correct signatures
	- Stronger methods typing (removed some void * args).
	- Changed index-related funx signatures to use size_t
	  rather then int
	- More const-correctness in Buffer "package"
	- Bugfix in LineString::getCoordinate() failing to return
	  NULL from getCoordinat() when empty.
	- Use unsigned int for indexes and sizes.

- Layout changes:
	- Namespaces mapping JTS packages
	- Renamed classes after JTS names (namespaces use made this possible
	  w/out name clashes)
	- Splitted headers, for build speedup and possible API reduction.
	- Moved source/bigtest and source/test to tests/bigtest
	  and test/xmltester
	- Moved C-API in it's own top-level dir capi/
	- Reworked automake scripts to produce a static lib for each subdir
	  and then link all subsystem's libs togheter
	- Renamed DefaultCoordinateSequence to CoordinateArraySequence.
	- Renamed OverlayOp opcodes by prepending the 'op' prefix, and
	  given the enum a name (OpCode) for type-safety.

- Bug fixes:
	- Fixed bug causing redundant linestrings to be returned in the
	  result of overlaying polygons containing touching holes (#13)
	- Fixed integer conversion bug
	- Fixed PointLocator handling of LinearRings
	- Added missing ::clone() methods for Multi* geoms 

- (Partial) Detailed list of changes:
	- Changed SegmentNode to contain a *real* Coordinate (not a pointer)
  	  to reduce construction costs.
	- Changed geomgraph nodeMap to use Coordinate pointers as keys
	- Envelope destructor made non-virtual to give compiler more static
	  binding options.
	- Changed BufferSubgraph::computeDepths to use a set instead of a
	  vector for checking visited Edges.
	- Made LineIntersector a concrete type
	- Node::isIncidentEdgeInResult() method made virtual
	- Const-correct signatures in LineMerger package
	- Changed operation/valid/*NestedRingTester classes interface
	  to use Coordinate pointers instead of copies.
	- Changed EdgeIntersectionList to use a set instead of a vector
	- Changed DepthSegment to store a real Coordinate rather then a pointer.
	- Changed SubgraphDepthLocater to store real containers rather then
	  pointers.
	- Changed BufferSubgraph to store a real RightmostEdgeFinder and real
 	  containers rather then pointers.
	- CoordinateSequence API changes:
		- point index and size related functions
	  	  use unsigned int rather then int
	- Changed EdgeEndStar to maintain a single container for EdgeEnds 
	- Changed PlanarGraph::addEdges to take a const vector by ref
	  rathern then a non-const vector by pointer
	- Changed EdgeList::addAll to take a const vector by ref
	  rather then a non-const vector by pointer
	- Added apply_rw(CoordinateFilter *) and apply_ro(CoordinateFilter *)
	  const to CoordinateSequence
	- LineBuilder::lineEdgesList made a real vector, rather then pointer
	  (private member)
	- SegmentString::eiList made a real SegmentNodeList, rather then
	  a pointer (private member)
	- Removed coordinate copies in ElevationMatrix::elevate
	- Changed CoordinateFilter interface to have a const method
	  for filter_rw, updated interfaces using this to take
	  const CoordinateFilter (apply_rw).


Changes in 2.2.4

	- Added version.in.vc to distribution

Changes in 2.2.1

- Support for MingW builds
- Bugfix in Polygonizer chocking on invalid LineString inputs
- CAPI: small leak removed in GEOSHasZ() 

Changes in 2.2.0

- Performance improvement in OverlayOp::insertUniqueEdge()
- CoordinateSequence copy removal in EdgeRing
- Minor memory allocation improvements 
- Higher dimensions interface for CoordinateSequence
- Added getCoordinatesRO for Point class
- NEW WKB IO
- NEW Simplified and stabler C API 

Changes in 2.1.4

- Severe BUGFIX in BufferSubgraphGT and other functions used
  as StrictWeakOrdering predicates for sort()

Changes in 2.1.3

- win32/mingw build support
- Segfault fix in LinearRing and LineString constructors
- Segfault fix in Polygonizer
- XMLTester installed by default
- XMLTester code cleanup
- Fixed handling of collection input in GeometryFactory::buildGeometry
- Added shortcircuit test for Union operation
- Reduced useless Coordinate copies in CGAlgorithms::isPointInRing()
- Performance improvements in CGAlgorithms::isOnLine()
- Other minor performance improvements
- New Node::isIncidentEdgeInResult() method
- OverlayOp's PointBuilder performance improvement by reduction
  of LineIntersector calls.
- Optimizations in Buffer operation
- Sever BUGFIX in DepthSegmentLT as suggested by Graeme Hiebert

Changes in 2.1.2

- Segfault fix in Point::isEmpty
- Mem Leak fix in OffsetCurveBuilder::getRingCurve
- Bugfix in LineSegment::reverse
- Added multipolygon buffering test in source/test/testLeaksBig
- Ported JTS robustness patch for RobustLineIntersector
- Removed useless Coordinate copies in OverlayOp::mergeZ()
- Avoided throws by IsValid on invalid input
- Stricter C++ syntax (math.h=>cmath, ieeefp.h in "C" block, ostringstream
  instead of sprintf)
- Better support for older compilers (Polygonizer::LineStringAdder friendship)
- Removed useless Coordinate copies in CGAlgorithms::isOnLine()
- Added support for polygonize and parametrized buffer tests in XMLTester
- Fixed support for --includedir and --libdir
- Fixed Z interpolation in LineIntersector
- Handled NULL results from getCentroid() in XMLTester
- Segfault fix in (EMPTY)Geometry::getCentroid()
- Made polygon::getBoundary() always OGC-valid (no LinearRings)
- Input checking and promoting in GeometryFactory::createMultiLineString()
- Segfault fix in GeometryEditor::editPolygon()


Changes in 2.1.1

- Fixed uninitialized Coordinate in TopologyException
- Added install of version.h, platform.h and timeval.h
- Memleak fix in PolygonizeGraph
- Memleak fix in OverlayOp
- Compiler warnings removal
- Cleaner w32 build
- Z interpolation in overlay operations
- Debian package build scripts


Changes in 2.1.0

- Added Polygonizer and LineMerger classes.
- python wrapper examples
- General cleanup / warnings removal
- cleaner win32 / older copilers builds
- Reduced heap allocations
- debian package builder scripts
- reduction of standard C lib headers dependency
- Z support in overlay operations.


Changes in 2.0.0

- CoordinateList renamed to CoordinateSequence, BasicCoordinateList
  renamed to DefaultCoordinateSequence to reflect JTS changes.
  DefaultCoordinateSequenceFactory and CoordinateSequenceFactory
  got same interface as JTS.
- Added geos/version.h defining versioning infos
- Added geos.h for quick inclusion. It will include geos/geom.h,
  new geos/version.h, geos/util.h geos/io.h and geos/unload.h
  (geometry input/output, exceptions, operations).
- Added a geos::version() function showing GEOS and equivalent
  JTS versions as strings.
- All geometry constructors take ownership of given arguments.
  GeometryFactory provides pass-by-reference geometry creators
  to take care of a deep-copy.
- GeometryFactory::createMultiPoint(const CoordinateList *)
  has been renamed to
  GeometryFactory::createMultiPoint(const CoordinateList &)
  to reflect copy semantic
- GeometryFactory: EMPTY geometry creation do now have their
  own constructors taking no arguments.
- Geometry constructors taking PrecisionModel and SRID have
  been dropped. You have to use GeometryFactory instead.
- WKTWriter default constructor has been dropped. You need
  to initialize it with an explicit GeometryFactory

