Overall, there were 352 commits that closed 192 issues since our last release on 2025-07-31.

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libpysal v4.14.1

• #824: REGR: Revert #793 (sorting in sparse to arrays)
• #822: REGR: fix regression in Graph.build_kernel
• #821: REGR: regression in Graph.build_kernel in 4.14
• #823: [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate
• #820: DOC: Fix stale documentation links
• #819: Move fast_point_in_polygon_algorithm notebook and data files to documentation
• #60: quadtree files
• #480: max val in rtree.silhouette_coeff
• #260: ENH: start of patsy branch for discussion
• #287: [WIP] Extend KNN neighbor search beyond coincident sites
• #184: BUG: Queen and Rook from_dataframe do not match docs
• #331: Add ArcGIS API for Python Geometry Support to Weight Objects
• #455: BUG: fix support for DataArray objects read through rioxarray to weights module
• #445: Add support for DataArray objects read through rioxarray
• #436: Update of the min_threshold_dist_from_shapefile function to support geopandas objects directly.
• #815: ENH: add information about components and isolates to Graph.repr
• #807: Connectivity warnings on Graph
• #790: Expectations in kernel weights
• #791: ENH: Add decay and taper arguments to normalize kernel in distance-based weights
• #818: TST: ensure EEA large rivers are downloaded prior running tests, numpy compat, plotting text fix
• #798: Bug/gaussian
• #816: ENH: support any 2-dimensional inputs in Graph.lag()
• #813: Graph.lag should support DataFrames
• #810: Bump actions/checkout from 5 to 6
• #814: COMPAT: pandas 3.0 compatibillity in Graph
• #812: CI: ensure pyproj is present in 313-min
• #811: modernize macOS testing
• #809: BUG: fix euality check on Graph
• #808: [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate
• #806: CI: try fixing spopt reverse dependency testing
• #797: add benchmarks of Graph using asv
• #802: BUG: RNG pruning condition and loop bound
• #801: Bug in the Delaunay prunning (RNG-2)
• #803: Bump actions/github-script from 7 to 8
• #804: Bump actions/setup-python from 5 to 6
• #799: Bump actions/checkout from 4 to 5

access v1.1.10.post3

• #99: Update release action for trusted publishing
• #97: initial attempt at Python 3.14 in CI
• #95: standard CI envs dir & naming conventions
• #96: modernize macOS testing

esda v2.8.1

• #401: support Python 3.14 in CI matrix
• #400: adapted check_array() keyword - sklearn version
• #394: pruning down warnings/errors in make html
• #398: modernize macOS testing
• #397: Bump actions/checkout from 5 to 6
• #395: AttributeError in Local_Join_Counts
• #393: fix docs build directory mismatch
• #396: Fix docx issues
• #390: Moran fourth moment missing sum()
• #392: docs directory – build vs. _build
• #391: correct fourth moment calculation for total randomization null
• #252: correlogram
• #259: add spatial correlogram function
• #205: adding alternative option in local_moran and moral_local_rate
• #279: add start of local partial moran statistics
• #281: pseudo-p significance calculation
• #388: Bump actions/github-script from 7 to 8
• #387: Bump actions/setup-python from 5 to 6
• #386: Bump actions/checkout from 4 to 5

giddy v2.3.8

• #246: fix warnings in the doctests for dynamic_lisa_rose
• #244: UserWarning: No data for colormapping provided via 'c'.
• #239: fix failing doctests, other actions maint, ensure docs build, etc
• #198: fail gracefully when splot not installed
• #243: use_index warning from Queen.from_dataframe()
• #232: [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate
• #242: change .toml file to anticipate the deprecation of old crand scheme in esda
• #240: merge main into #232
• #235: doctest failures in ubuntu-latest, ci/312-dev.yaml
• #233: add with: fetch-depth: 0 for checkout in build_docs.yml

gwlearn v0.1.1

• #73: COMPAT: pandas 3 compatibility
• #72: DOC: fix docs building
• #70: Fix strict type annotation in GWLogisticRegression
• #68: Enable internal metadata routing for geometry
• #67: GHA: build docs for PRs
• #66: Execute notebooks as part of the documentation build
• #65: GHA: ignore pre-commit-ci[bot] in release notes
• #64: DOC: various documentation enhancements
• #63: DOC: make notebooks a bit faster to execute
• #62: MAINT: infrastructure enhancements
• #61: DOC: automatised release update
• #59: DOC: automatically build docs for stable (on version) and latest (on push)
• #57: ENH: add GWGradientBoostingRegressor
• #48: non-linear regressors
• #60: TST: make sure that codecov tracks undersampling
• #45: Implement metadata routing and update fit methods
• #56: document and test metadata routing
• #51: DOC: add comparison with mgwr
• #55: API: move geometry back to fit, implement score and backbone for metadata routing
• #43: Implement score
• #54: ENH: implement fusion with the global model in prediction
• #42: Flexibility of prediction
• #52: ENH: prediction based on nearest model only or a custom bandwidth
• #49: ENH: add GWRandomForestRegressor
• #50: [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate
• #47: ENH: support predict method on regressors
• #41: Support predict on regressors
• #46: MAINT: eliminate warnings from CI
• #44: clean up n_jobs warning
• #40: minor touch of docs
• #39: full type hints (checked by ty)
• #38: fix some type hints
• #37: beef up docstrings
• #36: fix API rendering
• #35: use immaterial theme
• #34: DOC: Add basic user guide
• #33: custom undersampling
• #32: API: do not compute performance metrics, return arrays for users
• #30: API: try to make sure that API for metrics is not confusing
• #31: CI: attempt testing on Python 3.14
• #29: CI: replace deprecated macos-13 with macos-15-intel
• #28: fix incorrect sorting
• #27: compute global metrics only for non-unique focal set
• #26: ensure bandwidth can be none with custom graph

momepy v0.11.0

• #720: DOC: expand on meaning of segment keyword in tessellation
• #714: Update and enhance pre-commit-config
• #717: bump oldest dependency versions as per spec000 – 2025-10
• #711: TYP: fix type hints for new numpy
• #696: DEP: deprecate functions moved to neatnet
• #727: DEPR: deprecate preprocessing tooling
• #693: Deprecate stuff moved to neatnet
• #726: COMPAT: streetscape compatibility with numpy 2.4
• #704: Adding metrics to strokes made by COINS
• #591: Adding metrics to strokes made by COINS
• #710: include numba in dev CI env, compat with dev libpysal
• #700: SciPy sparse array migration from sparse matrices
• #723: Inconcistency between mm.close_gaps and mm.extend_lines
• #716: initial attempt at Python 3.14 support
• #725: modernize macOS testing
• #724: Bump actions/checkout from 5 to 6
• #722: DOC: Add missing text to enclosed_tessellation
• #707: DEP: fix user guide
• #706: DEP: remove deprecated class API
• #718: Artefacts in output when tessellating islands with narrow channels
• #721: Coplanar error
• #719: Update elements.py – typo in morphological_tessellation docstring
• #715: revisit spec000 minimal support versions – 2025-10
• #713: [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate
• #681: fixes #680
• #683: Updating the Contributing file
• #708: Bump actions/setup-python from 5 to 6
• #709: Bump actions/github-script from 7 to 8
• #705: Bump actions/checkout from 4 to 5

spreg v1.8.5

• #187: TypeError in GM_Lag when slx_vars is a list and slx_lags > 0. If slx_vars is not a list it defaults to "all"
• #189: Temporarily disabling 3.14 tests without numba
• #186: New feature: Different spatial weight matrices for lag and error terms
• #188: Fix bug in slx_vars in set_endog
• #185: try Python 3.14 with and without numba
• #181: modernize macOS testing
• #184: Bump actions/setup-python from 5 to 6
• #183: Bump actions/github-script from 7 to 8
• #182: Bump actions/checkout from 4 to 6
• #168: Bump mamba-org/setup-micromamba from 1 to 2
• #169: Bump codecov/codecov-action from 4 to 5
• #180: Conflicting pysal.spreg.GMM_Error results when using esda.moran.Moran
• #175: Increasing test coverage

tobler v0.13.0

• #246: CI: pin geopandas version in 3.14 env
• #241: Python 3.14 in CI matrix etc
• #243: chipping away more warnings in tests
• #245: TST: geopandas compat
• #242: control for some warnings when running tests
• #240: reup linting for tobler - part3
• #239: reup linting for tobler - part2
• #238: standardize reqs/deps
• #237: update pyproject.toml & deps
• #236: modernize macOS testing
• #235: reup linting for tobler - part1
• #230: [maint] ruff review for tobler
• #231: review spec000 for tobler [2025-10]
• #232: spec000 maintenance – [2025-10]
• #210: add nightly upstream testing to matrix
• #229: Update README.md -- universal DOI
• #165: add doi to readme
• #227: Add polygon binary dasymetric mapping

pysal v26.01rc1

• #1394: Lazy Subpackage Loading for PySAL (PEP 562)
• #1386: Modernize dynamic imports: Replace exec/eval with importlib and use stdlib cached_property
• #1399: [Docs] Broken "User Guide" link on libpysal documentation homepage
• #1396: add gwlearn to meta
• #1392: Performance Optimization: Parallel Version Checking for 5.5x Import Speedup
• #1395: ENH: implement lazy loading for subpackages using SPEC 1
• #1393: feat: add parallel version checking for 5.5x speedup
• #1390: NameError bug in _installed_version() and deprecated string formatting
• #1391: fix: resolve NameError bug and modernize string formatting
• #1388: Add test coverage for pysal.base and pysal.lib.common modules
• #1389: test: add comprehensive test coverage for base and lib.common modules
• #1387: refactor: modernize dynamic imports with importlib and stdlib cached_property (fixes issue #1386)
• #1384: Docs: Migrated contributing guidelines from Wiki to CONTRIBUTING.md
• #1068: PyPI packages ownership
• #1381: modernize macOS testing
• #1379: Bump actions/checkout from 5 to 6
• #1378: Bump actions/setup-python from 5 to 6
• #1377: Bump actions/checkout from 4 to 5

Contributors

Many thanks to all of the following individuals who contributed to this release:

• Aksrivastava28
• Ashish Raj
• Clément Sebastiao
• Dani Arribas-Bel
• Dcodrut
• Eli Knaap
• Firepheonix
• Germano Barcelos
• James Gaboardi
• Jiya Gupta
• Jon Morris
• Knaaptime
• Levi John Wolf
• Maria Alice
• Martin Fleischmann
• Pedro Amaral
• Samay Mehar
• Samay2504
• Serge Rey
• Shubham Singh
• Wei Kang