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Apache Sedona is a cluster computing system for processing large-scale spatial data

Last release 2 months ago
05 Aug 2026
Ships on a steady schedule
a new release about every 3 months
Nearly every release is documented
notes for 23 of 23 stable releases
Nothing withdrawn
no release was ever pulled
6 years old
23 releases · first in 2021

Release timeline

23 releases since 2021

202120222023202420252026

20212026

One column per quarter.

Releases

1.9.15 Aug 2026Deprecated
[CI] Remove deprecated hook check-docstring-first by @jbampton in #3041
Binary download link: https://sedona.apache.org/1.9.1/download/
Release notes: https://sedona.apache.org/1.9.1/setup/release-notes/
Maven coordinate: https://sedona.apache.org/1.9.1/setup/maven-coordinates/

What's Changed

[GH-2830] Improve Geography query support - core by @zhangfengcdt in #2831

[CI] Simplify forbid-tabs/remove-tabs Makefile excludes to match any Makefile by @jiayuasu in #2848

[GH-2830] Add Geography dual-dispatch to ST_AsText by @zhangfengcdt in #2849

[GH-2824] Add geotiff.metadata data source for GeoTIFF file metadata by @jiayuasu in #2846

[DOCS] Update Maven coordinates to Sedona 1.9.0 / geotools-wrapper 1.9.0-33.5 by @jiayuasu in #2860

[GH-2830] Adds Geography dual-dispatch to ST_GeometryType by @zhangfengcdt in #2850

[GH-2861] Group Catalog.scala expressions by docs category by @jiayuasu in #2862

[GH-2857] Fix ST_S2CellIDs under-covering planar polygons along non-meridional edges by @jiayuasu in #2863

[GH-2830] Adds Geography dual-dispatch to ST_NumGeometries by @zhangfengcdt in #2851

[GH-2830] Adds Geography dual-dispatch to ST_Area by @zhangfengcdt in #2853

[GH-2830] Adds ST_Buffer for the Geography type via dual-dispatch by @zhangfengcdt in #2865

[GH-2830] Adds Geography dual-dispatch to ST_Centroid by @zhangfengcdt in #2852

[GH-2830] Add broadcast spatial-join support for the Geography type with ST_Contains by @zhangfengcdt in #2864

[GH-2830] Add Geography support for ST_Equals by @zhangfengcdt in #2855

[GH-2830] Adds Geography dual-dispatch to ST_Length by @zhangfengcdt in #2854

[GH-2830] Adds Geography implementations for ST_Within and ST_DWithin by @zhangfengcdt in #2858

[GH-2830] Adds Geography dual-dispatch to ST_Intersects by @zhangfengcdt in #2856

build(deps): bump the pre-commit-hooks group with 5 updates by @dependabot[bot] in #2875

[GH-2700] Refresh docker example notebooks: scaffolding + quickstart by @jiayuasu in #2876

[GH-2877] Add Box2D type and Box2DUDT by @jiayuasu in #2878

[GH-2700] Add 01-mobility-pulse notebook: vector analytics at TLC scale by @jiayuasu in #2879

[CI] Add ASF Allowlist Check workflow by @jbampton in #2892

[GH-2881] Add ST_Box2D(geom) scalar function by @jiayuasu in #2890

[GH-2700] Add 05-geopandas-on-spark notebook by @jiayuasu in #2889

[GH-2882] Overload ST_XMin/XMax/YMin/YMax for Box2D by @jiayuasu in #2895

[GH-2830] Add python / scala tests and add SRID-preservation tests for geography functions by @zhangfengcdt in #2870

[GH-2700] Add 02-vegetation-change notebook: end-to-end raster workflow by @jiayuasu in #2896

[GH-2883] Add ST_MakeBox2D(p1, p2) scalar constructor by @jiayuasu in #2897

[GH-2830] Geography BC join strategy for newly added predicates by @zhangfengcdt in #2871

[GH-2884] Add ST_Extent aggregate (returns Box2D) by @jiayuasu in #2898

[GH-2700] Add 03-fire-risk-fusion notebook: raster + vector fusion by @jiayuasu in #2900

[GH-2885] Add ST_GeomFromBox2D and ST_AsText(box2d) by @jiayuasu in #2899

[GH-2880] Omit bbox in GeoParquet metadata for empty files by @james-willis in #2903

[GH-2901]: Fix ST_BestSRID logic for Geometries near the poles by @ThomasDekeyser in #2902

[GH-2700] Add 04-flood-snapshot notebook: SAR mask → flood polygon → affected buildings by @jiayuasu in #2905

[GH-2887] Box2D DataFrame API + Python bindings for Phase 1 by @jiayuasu in #2904

[CI] Trim docker image build context: exclude Maven target/, drop pip cache by @jiayuasu in #2907

[GH-2869] Update Glue docs for Sedona 1.8+ (Glue 5.0, Spark 3.5) by @jiayuasu in #2908

[GH-2867] Wire mkdocs-static-i18n for Chinese documentation by @jiayuasu in #2920

[GH-2888] Flink bindings for Box2D Phase 1 surface by @jiayuasu in #2906

[GH-2909] Translate documentation landing pages to Chinese by @jiayuasu in #2922

[GH-2886] Recognize Box2D columns as GeoParquet bbox covering columns by @jiayuasu in #2921

[GH-2867] Replace EN/中文 pill with 文A icon dropdown in header by @jiayuasu in #2923

[GH-2910] Translate Setup / Install section to Chinese by @jiayuasu in #2924

[GH-2911] Translate Tutorial / Programming Guide (part 1) to Chinese by @jiayuasu in #2931

[GH-2911] Translate Tutorial / Programming Guide (part 2) to Chinese by @jiayuasu in #2933

[GH-2911] Translate Tutorial / Programming Guide (part 3) to Chinese by @jiayuasu in #2934

[GH-2911] Translate Tutorial / Programming Guide (part 4) to Chinese by @jiayuasu in #2935

[GH-2925] Add ST_Expand(box2d, ...) overloads by @jiayuasu in #2930

[GH-2926] Add ST_BoxIntersects and ST_BoxContains for Box2D by @jiayuasu in #2932

[GH-2867] Make language switcher respect mike version prefix by @jiayuasu in #2936

[GH-2912] Translate Community & ASF section to Chinese by @jiayuasu in #2937

[GH-2867] Strip mike canonical-version prefix from language switcher links by @jiayuasu in #2945

[GH-2867] Translate Stats, Viz, and SQL overview pages to Chinese by @jiayuasu in #2947

build(deps): bump jupyterlab from 4.5.1 to 4.5.7 in /docker by @dependabot[bot] in #2872

build(deps-dev): bump fast-uri from 3.1.0 to 3.1.2 in /docs-overrides by @dependabot[bot] in #2941

build(deps): bump postcss from 8.5.6 to 8.5.13 in /docs-overrides by @dependabot[bot] in #2894

build(deps-dev): bump @babel/plugin-transform-modules-systemjs from 7.27.1 to 7.29.4 in /docs-overrides by @dependabot[bot] in #2942

build(deps-dev): bump follow-redirects from 1.15.11 to 1.16.0 in /docs-overrides by @dependabot[bot] in #2839

build(deps): bump lodash from 4.17.23 to 4.18.1 in /docs-overrides by @dependabot[bot] in #2832

[GH-2867] Translate blog posts to Chinese by @jiayuasu in #2950

[GH-2867] Fix empty blog index under i18n suffix mode by @jiayuasu in #2951

[GH-2938] Push down ST_BoxIntersects / ST_BoxContains via Parquet row-group statistics by @jiayuasu in #2946

[GH-2927] Add geometry ↔ Box2D Catalyst cast by @jiayuasu in #2952

[SEDONA-751] RS_Interpolate band index and noDataValue handling by @prantogg in #2958

[GH-2617] Reorder raster function signatures by @omribz156 in #2962

[GH-2804] Raster tutorial: end-to-end running example with visuals by @jiayuasu in #2954

[SEDONA-754] feat: make rasterization orientation-agnostic by supporting positive scaleY by @prantogg in #2961

[SEDONA-752] fix: NullPointerException from deep traversal beyond GeoJSON geometry level by @prantogg in #2959

[SEDONA-755] fix: remove redundant bounds check from rasterization scanline logic by @prantogg in #2960

[GH-2939] Box2D spatial join: ST_BoxIntersects / ST_BoxContains by @jiayuasu in #2953

[INFRA] Set up default rulesets for default and release branches by @asf-gitbox-commits in #2955

[GH-2964] Remove first-interaction workflow by @jiayuasu in #2965

[DOCS] Add Box2D SQL documentation by @jiayuasu in #2966

[SEDONA-753] feat: add eo:cloud_cover and eo:snow_cover STAC extensions to reader by @prantogg in #2957

[SEDONA-756] feat: raster Python serde and with_bands() support by @prantogg in #2956

[CI] Fix pre-commit black-jupyter failure and drop stale First Interaction badge by @jiayuasu in #2967

[DOCS] Update PyPI download badges in README by @jiayuasu in #2968

[GH-2971] Add ST_DWithin(Box2D, Box2D, distance) overload by @jiayuasu in #2969

[DOCS] Remove broken download statistics badges from overview page by @jiayuasu in #2972

[CI] Clean up link checker workflow by @jbampton in #2976

[CI] Pin codeql actions to hash by @jbampton in #2974

[GH-2503] Switch to prek using uv by @jbampton in #2542

[GH-2830] Fix S2 Geography WKB writer to emit OGC-conformant polygon closure by @zhangfengcdt in #2975

[CI] Fix Makefile target command to run against master branch by @jbampton in #2981

[GH-2973] Box3D foundation: value class + UDT + Catalyst plumbing by @jiayuasu in #2978

[GH-2979] ST_Split: support puntal input (Point, MultiPoint) by @jiayuasu in #2982

[CI] Replace check-dependabot hook with more robust option by @jbampton in
Note truncated.

Additional notes

Sedona 1.9.1 is compiled against:

Spark: 3.4, 3.5, 4.0, 4.1
Flink: 1.19
Snowflake: 7+

Java Requirements:

Spark 3.4 & 3.5: Java 11
Spark 4.0 & 4.1: Java 17

This is a minor release that includes bug fixes, new features, and improvements.

New Contributors

@ThomasDekeyser made their first contribution in https://github.com/apache/sedona/pull/2902
@omribz156 made their first contribution in https://github.com/apache/sedona/pull/2962
@thuantip made their first contribution in https://github.com/apache/sedona/pull/2995
@Herrtian made their first contribution in https://github.com/apache/sedona/pull/2994
@oglego made their first contribution in https://github.com/apache/sedona/pull/3018
@ShiroKSH made their first contribution in https://github.com/apache/sedona/pull/3107
@JakobMiksch made their first contribution in https://github.com/apache/sedona/pull/3117
@lntutor made their first contribution in https://github.com/apache/sedona/pull/3221

Highlights

[X] [<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2830'>GH-2830</a>] - Geography type support across core SQL functions (ST_Intersects, ST_Within, ST_DWithin, ST_Contains, ST_Equals, ST_Area, ST_Length, ST_Centroid, ST_Buffer, ST_Intersection, ST_MakeLine, and more) with broadcast spatial join support
[X] [<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2877'>GH-2877</a>], [<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2973'>GH-2973</a>] - New Box2D and Box3D types with constructors, accessors, predicates, aggregates, spatial join support, and Parquet row-group filter pushdown
[X] [<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2824'>GH-2824</a>] - Add geotiff.metadata data source for reading GeoTIFF file metadata without loading raster bands
[X] [<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3115'>GH-3115</a>] - Add netcdf.metadata data source for NetCDF file metadata, including CF grid mapping to CRS translation
[X] [<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2809'>GH-2809</a>] - Support distance joins for raster predicates
[X] [<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SEDONA-756'>SEDONA-756</a>] - Raster Python UDFs: build and return rasters directly from Python UDFs with full metadata preservation via raster serde and with_bands(), replacing the now-deprecated RS_MapAlgebra
[X] [<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3058'>GH-3058</a>] - Geography and Box3D support in SedonaFlink
[X] Distributed GeoPandas API expansion: dissolve, clip, cx, affine transformations, concave_hull, and many more GeoSeries methods
[X] [<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2867'>GH-2867</a>] - Chinese (中文) translation of the documentation website

New Features

Geography Type

[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2830'>GH-2830</a>] - Improve Geography query support in the SQL engine (core dual-dispatch infrastructure)
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2830'>GH-2830</a>] - Add Geography support for ST_Intersects, ST_Within, ST_DWithin, ST_Equals, ST_Area, ST_Length, ST_Centroid, ST_Buffer, ST_NumGeometries, ST_GeometryType, and ST_AsText
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2830'>GH-2830</a>] - Add broadcast spatial-join support for the Geography type
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3175'>GH-3175</a>] - Add Geography support for ST_Intersection
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3176'>GH-3176</a>] - Add Geography support for convex hull and collection functions
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3177'>GH-3177</a>] - Add Geography support for ST_MakeLine
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3179'>GH-3179</a>] - Add Geography support for ST_X and ST_Y

Box2D and Box3D Types

[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2877'>GH-2877</a>] - Add Box2D type and Box2DUDT
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2881'>GH-2881</a>], [<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2883'>GH-2883</a>], [<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2885'>GH-2885</a>] - Add ST_Box2D, ST_MakeBox2D, ST_GeomFromBox2D, and ST_AsText(box2d)
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2884'>GH-2884</a>] - Add ST_Extent aggregate (returns Box2D)
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2882'>GH-2882</a>] - Overload ST_XMin/XMax/YMin/YMax for Box2D
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2925'>GH-2925</a>] - Add ST_Expand(box2d, ...) overloads
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2926'>GH-2926</a>], [<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2939'>GH-2939</a>] - Add ST_BoxIntersects and ST_BoxContains with spatial join support
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2938'>GH-2938</a>] - Push down ST_BoxIntersects / ST_BoxContains via Parquet row-group statistics
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2886'>GH-2886</a>] - Recognize Box2D columns as GeoParquet bbox covering columns
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2927'>GH-2927</a>] - Add geometry ↔ Box2D Catalyst cast
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2971'>GH-2971</a>] - Add ST_DWithin(Box2D, Box2D, distance) overload
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2887'>GH-2887</a>] - Box2D DataFrame API and Python bindings
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2973'>GH-2973</a>] - Box3D foundation: value class, UDT, Catalyst plumbing, constructors (ST_Box3D, ST_3DMakeBox), and accessors
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2983'>GH-2983</a>] - Box3D SQL parser keyword and Geometry → Box3D cast resolution
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3012'>GH-3012</a>], [<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3027'>GH-3027</a>] - Box3D predicates consolidated into ST_Intersects / ST_Contains
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3024'>GH-3024</a>] - Add ST_3DDWithin 3D distance-within predicate
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3013'>GH-3013</a>] - Add ST_3DExtent aggregate
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3031'>GH-3031</a>], [<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3034'>GH-3034</a>] - Spatial join planner: index Box3D predicates and ST_3DDWithin distance joins
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3021'>GH-3021</a>] - Python Box3DType UDT bindings

SedonaFlink

[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3058'>GH-3058</a>] - Add GeographyTypeSerializer to SedonaFlink
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3061'>GH-3061</a>] - Add geography constructors to SedonaFlink
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3073'>GH-3073</a>] - Add geography support to SedonaFlink measurement and output functions
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3075'>GH-3075</a>] - Add geography support to SedonaFlink spatial predicates
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3179'>GH-3179</a>] - Add Flink Geography support for ST_X and ST_Y
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2888'>GH-2888</a>] - Flink bindings for Box2D
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3036'>GH-3036</a>], [<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3039'>GH-3039</a>], [<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3042'>GH-3042</a>] - Flink Box3D support: serializer, constructors, accessors, ST_AsText, ST_3DExtent, and predicates including ST_3DDWithin

Data Sources

[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2824'>GH-2824</a>] - Add geotiff.metadata data source for GeoTIFF file metadata
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3115'>GH-3115</a>] - Add netcdf.metadata data source for NetCDF file metadata
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3121'>GH-3121</a>] - Translate CF grid mapping parameters to CRS in netcdf.metadata
[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SEDONA-753'>SEDONA-753</a>] - Add eo:cloud_cover and eo:snow_cover STAC extensions to the STAC reader

Spark SQL

[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2809'>GH-2809</a>] - Support distance joins for raster predicates
[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SEDONA-756'>SEDONA-756</a>] - Raster Python serde and with_bands() support for building rasters in Python UDFs
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2979'>GH-2979</a>] - ST_Split: support puntal input (Point, MultiPoint)
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3218'>GH-3218</a>] - Support integer values in Moran's I

GeoPandas API

[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2527'>GH-2527</a>] - Implement GeoSeries.concave_hull
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3017'>GH-3017</a>], [<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3051'>GH-3051</a>], [<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3134'>GH-3134</a>], [<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3143'>GH-3143</a>], [<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3147'>GH-3147</a>] - Implement distributed affine transformations: rotate, translate, affine_transform, scale, and skew
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3180'>GH-3180</a>] - Implement distributed cx and clip APIs
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3181'>GH-3181</a>] - Implement distributed dissolve and tools.collect
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2385'>GH-2385</a>], [<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3168'>GH-3168</a>], [<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3169'>GH-3169</a>] - Implement GeoSeries is_ccw, interiors, and orient_polygons
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3156'>GH-3156</a>], [<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3157'>GH-3157</a>], [<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3158'>GH-3158</a>], [<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3162'>GH-3162</a>], [<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3163'>GH-3163</a>], [<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3164'>GH-3164</a>] - Implement additional distributed GeoSeries geometry methods
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3196'>GH-3196</a>] - Add distributed sampling, point construction, and serialization
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3204'>GH-3204</a>] - Complete maximum-circle, dwithin-distance, and Voronoi-extent parity
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3189'>GH-3189</a>] - Preserve CRS metadata without geometry SRIDs

Bug Fixes

[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2830'>GH-2830</a>] - Fix S2 Geography WKB writer to emit OGC-conformant polygon closure
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3203'>GH-3203</a>] - Preserve Geography coordinates and polygon ring semantics
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3201'>GH-3201</a>] - Preserve empty Geography envelopes
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3202'>GH-3202</a>] - Handle empty Geography inputs in ST_MakeLine
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2901'>GH-2901</a>] - Fix ST_BestSRID logic for geometries near the poles
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2857'>GH-2857</a>] - Fix ST_S2CellIDs under-covering planar polygons along non-meridional edges
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3044'>GH-3044</a>] - Fix aggregate function registration in sessions cloned from FunctionRegistry.builtin
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2880'>GH-2880</a>] - Omit bbox in GeoParquet metadata for empty files
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3150'>GH-3150</a>] - Preserve GeoParquet CRS metadata
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3126'>GH-3126</a>] - Fix STAC temporal pushdown and pagination
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3110'>GH-3110</a>] - Fix STAC Client.search(datetime="YYYY-mm") raising TypeError
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3128'>GH-3128</a>] - Fix geotiff.metadata partition values, scan identity, and option handling
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3131'>GH-3131</a>] - Align glob and directory-glob path handling in the raster metadata data sources
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3089'>GH-3089</a>] - Fix empty-envelope false candidate and RS_DWithin EXPLAIN label in raster distance join
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3111'>GH-3111</a>] - Fix scanline x-intercepts on rasters with non-square pixels
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3112'>GH-3112</a>] - RS_AsRaster fills uncovered pixels with noDataValue
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3118'>GH-3118</a>] - Rasterize line segments by exact cell traversal instead of fixed-step sampling
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3216'>GH-3216</a>] - Transform geometry before rasterization
[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SEDONA-754'>SEDONA-754</a>] - Make rasterization orientation-agnostic by supporting positive scaleY
[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SEDONA-751'>SEDONA-751</a>] - Fix RS_Interpolate band index and noDataValue handling
[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SEDONA-752'>SEDONA-752</a>] - Fix NullPointerException from deep traversal beyond GeoJSON geometry level
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3166'>GH-3166</a>] - Resolve raster sample positions the way Java AWT does in the Python raster reader
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3171'>GH-3171</a>], [<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3172'>GH-3172</a>] - Fix empty polygon orientation and GeoSeries skew flags in GeoPandas
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3046'>GH-3046</a>] - Flink ST_DWithin: propagate NULL arguments instead of NullPointerException

Improvements

[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3214'>GH-3214</a>] - Deprecate RS_MapAlgebra in favour of Python UDFs
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2617'>GH-2617</a>] - Reorder raster function signatures
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3095'>GH-3095</a>] - Exclude the entire Scala toolchain from shaded jars
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3161'>GH-3161</a>] - Upgrade proj4sedona to 0.1.6
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3137'>GH-3137</a>] - Bump jt-jiffle from 1.1.24 to 1.1.31
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2867'>GH-2867</a>] - Chinese (中文) translation of the documentation website
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2700'>GH-2700</a>] - Refresh docker example notebooks with five end-to-end use cases
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2804'>GH-2804</a>] - Raster tutorial: end-to-end running example with visuals
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/3048'>GH-3048</a>] - Box3D SQL reference pages with isometric diagrams
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2869'>GH-2869</a>] - Update Glue docs for Sedona 1.8+ (Glue 5.0, Spark 3.5)

Open source →

1.9.023 Apr 2026

Binary download link: https://sedona.apache.org/1.9.0/download/ Release notes: https://sedona.apache.org/1.9.0/setup/release-notes/ Maven coordinate:

Binary download link: https://sedona.apache.org/1.9.0/download/
Release notes: https://sedona.apache.org/1.9.0/setup/release-notes/
Maven coordinate: https://sedona.apache.org/1.9.0/setup/maven-coordinates/

What's Changed

[CI] Dependabot: add a cooldown period for new releases by @jbampton in #2579
build(deps): bump the github-dependencies group across 1 directory with 2 updates by @dependabot[bot] in #2581
build(deps-dev): bump org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-core from 2.19.0 to 2.25.3 by @dependabot[bot] in #2569
build(deps): bump org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-core from 2.17.2 to 2.25.3 in /examples/flink-sql by @dependabot[bot] in #2568
[DOCS] adding new spatial query benchmarking databricks blog post by @kadolor in #2584
[DOCS] adding author to blog post by @kadolor in #2585
[CI] prettier: set pass_filenames: false to avoid multiple passes by @jbampton in #2583
[GH-1977] Add zizmor with pre-commit by @jbampton in #2582
[GH-2586] Use persist-credentials true for docs build by @jbampton in #2587
[CI] Add the CI to publish to Pypi per GitHub release by @jiayuasu in #2588
build(deps): bump geopandas from 1.1.1 to 1.1.2 in /docker in the github-dependencies group by @dependabot[bot] in #2575
[GH-2590] Upgrade campskeleton by @jiayuasu in #2594
[CI] Fix the failed CI build extension by @jiayuasu in #2595
[GH-2589] bump graphframes to 0.10.1 by @james-willis in #2596
chore: [CI] Fix snowflake tester workflow by @jiayuasu in #2600
[CI] Fix python tests workflow by preventing Pandas 3.0 from being used by @Kontinuation in #2599
[GH-2396] Making splitting polygon by line robust by removing the computation of line-polygon intersection by @Kontinuation in #2598
Update .asf.yaml clean up collaborators list by @jbampton in #2601
[GH-2603] Fix ST_AreaSpheroid for polygons with holes by @Kontinuation in #2607
build(deps): bump actions/download-artifact from 6 to 7 in the github-dependencies group by @dependabot[bot] in #2605
build(deps): bump lodash from 4.17.21 to 4.17.23 in /docs-overrides by @dependabot[bot] in #2597
[GH-2611] Merge linestring splitting results to avoid extra segments by @Kontinuation in #2612
[GH-2148] fix(ST_MakePolygon) warn when holes lie outside shell by @jiayuasu in #2613
[GH-2390] GeometryType: add regression test for EMPTY geometries by @jiayuasu in #2614
[GH-2408] RS_ZonalStats: fix incorrect 4-arg function signature by @jiayuasu in #2616
[GH-2403] SetSRID handle empty geometry types by @jiayuasu in #2615
[GH-1874] Fix ST_XYMin/Max returning sentinel values for EMPTY geometries by @jiayuasu in #2621
[GH-1612] Add TopologyException workaround note to ST_Intersection docs by @jiayuasu in #2623
[GH-1998] Fix broken links in docs by @jiayuasu in #2624
[GH-2373] Fix ST_Azimuth returning 0.0 instead of null for identical points by @jiayuasu in #2620
[CI] Use common linters directory for .clang-format config by @jbampton in #2627
[CI] pre-commit autoupdate; run pre-commit/black by @jbampton in #2619
[CI] Add pre-commit hook pip-audit by @jbampton in #2573
[GH-1979] Fix ST_Envelope and ST_Envelope_Aggr empty geometry handling by @jiayuasu in #2622
build(deps-dev): bump webpack from 5.102.1 to 5.105.0 in /docs-overrides by @dependabot[bot] in #2618
[GH-1137] Document H3 version conflict workaround on Databricks by @jiayuasu in #2632
[GH-908] Add ST_GeoHashNeighbors and ST_GeoHashNeighbor functions by @jiayuasu in #2628
[GH-2407] Auto-detect raster columns in SedonaUtils.display_image by @jiayuasu in #2633
[CI] Run pre-commit with --show-diff-on-failure by @jbampton in #2630
[GH-2559] Add CITATION.cff file for proper software citation by @Subham-KRLX in #2602
[DOCS] Fix typos in Markdown and Python files by @jbampton in #2631
[GH-2608] Fix RasterUDT JSON schema serialization for Delta/Parquet write by @jiayuasu in #2636
[DOCS] Standardize filenames by removing spaces by @jbampton in #2638
[CI] Add license to .clang-format; enforce with pre-commit by @jbampton in #2635
[CI] Add Editorconfig checker with pre-commit by @jbampton in #2634
[GH-2536] Remove workflow badge buttons from compile docs page by @jiayuasu in #2641
[GH-2640] Skip re-registration of functions in SedonaContext.create() by @jiayuasu in #2642
[GH-2360] Support fetching libpostal model data from HDFS/object store by @jiayuasu in #2637
[GH-2645] Fix GitHub Actions workflow policy violation in Pull Request Labeler by @jiayuasu in #2648
[GH-2610] Integrate proj4sedona for CRS transformation by @jiayuasu in #2647
[GH-2609] Support Spark 4.1 by @jiayuasu in #2649
[GH-2651] Add _metadata hidden column support for GeoPackage DataSource V2 reader by @jiayuasu in #2654
[SEDONA-729] Add _metadata hidden column support for shapefile DataSource V2 reader by @jiayuasu in #2653
[GH-2650] Fix warning message when reading shapefiles from S3 by @jiayuasu in #2655
[GH-2659] Fix file-based readers on Databricks by using reflection for DataSource.checkAndGlobPathIfNecessary by @jiayuasu in #2660
[GH-2657] Upgrade proj4sedona to 0.0.4 and adopt UrlCRSProvider by @jiayuasu in #2658
[GH-2376] Preserve CRS SRID from GeoParquet metadata when reading geometries by @jiayuasu in #2661
[GH-2662] Implement a pure Java single-thread COG writer by @jiayuasu in #2663
[GH-2646] Auto-populate covering metadata for GeoParquet 1.1.0 writes by @jiayuasu in #2665
build(deps-dev): bump swiper from 11.2.10 to 12.1.2 in /docs-overrides by @dependabot[bot] in #2666
[GH-2664] GeoParquet writer utilizes geometry SRID to produce projjson CRS metadata by @jiayuasu in #2667
[GH-1327] Add Bing Tile functions by @jiayuasu in #2668
[GH-2652] Add RS_AsCOG SQL function for Cloud Optimized GeoTiff output by @jiayuasu in #2669
[CI] Use common linters directory for .shellcheckrc config by @jbampton in #2629
[CI] pre-commit auto add license header to CITATION file by @jbampton in #2670
[GH-2672] Add a new raster data source reader that can automatically tile GeoTiffs and bypass the Spark record limit by @jiayuasu in #2673
[DOCS] Convert monolithic function pages into individual doc pages by @jiayuasu in #2676
[GH-2674] Add RS_SetCRS and RS_CRS for custom CRS string support by @jiayuasu in #2677
[GH-2679] Add return data type to SQL function docs by @jiayuasu in #2680
[GH-2678] Add SVG illustrations for predicate functions by @jiayuasu in #2681
[GH-2678] Add SVG visuals for overlay functions (Phase 2) by @jiayuasu in #2682
[GH-2678] Add SVG visuals for 21 geometry processing functions (Phase 3) by @jiayuasu in #2683
[GH-2678] Add SVG visuals for measurement functions (Phase 4) by @jiayuasu in #2684
[GH-2678] Add SVG visuals for geometry editor functions (Phase 5) by @jiayuasu in #2686
[GH-2678] Add SVG visuals for geometry accessor functions (Phase 6) by @jiayuasu in #2687
[GH-2678] Add SVG visuals for geometry validation functions (Phase 7) by @jiayuasu in #2689
[GH-2678] Add SVG visuals for affine transformation functions (Phase 8) by @jiayuasu in #2690
[GH-2678] Add SVG visuals for remaining function categories (Phase 9) by @jiayuasu in #2691
[GH-2678] Add SVG visuals for spatial indexing, buffer styles, transform, and skeleton functions (Phase 10) by @jiayuasu in #2692
[DOCS] Add SVG visuals for 14 raster functions (Phase 11) by @jiayuasu in #2693
build(deps): bump immutable in /docs-overrides by @dependabot[bot] in #2694
build(deps): bump serialize-javascript and terser-webpack-plugin in /docs-overrides by @dependabot[bot] in #2696
[DOCS] Add SVG visuals for 12 raster functions (Phase 12) by @jiayuasu in #2695
[DOCS] Add SVG visuals for raster affine transformation functions (Phase 13) by @jiayuasu in #2697
[GH-2640] Simplify warning messages of SedonaContext.create() by @jiayuasu in #2698
[GH-2704] Disable TransformNestedUDTParquet on Spark 4.1+ by @james-willis in #2703
[DOCS] Draft SedonaDB 0.3.0 release post by @paleolimbot in #2675
[CI] Add pre-commit ecosystem to Dependabot by @jbampton in #2705
[GH-2230] Implement GeoSeries: reverse, normalize, representative_point by @jiayuasu in #2701
[GH-2671] Remove broken PR labeler action by @jiayuasu in #2706
[GH-2702] Fix ST_LineMerge returning empty collection for LineString input by @jiayuasu in #2707
[GH-2671] Remove broken labeler badge from README by @jiayuasu in

Note truncated.

Open source →

Additional notes

Sedona 1.9.0 is compiled against:

Spark: 3.4, 3.5, 4.0, 4.1
Flink: 1.19
Snowflake: 7+

Java Requirements:

Spark 3.4 & 3.5: Java 11
Spark 4.0 & 4.1: Java 17

This is a major release that includes bug fixes, new features, and improvements.

New Contributors

@piyushka-ally made their first contribution in https://github.com/apache/sedona/pull/2771
@Takch02 made their first contribution in https://github.com/apache/sedona/pull/2767
@terry-blessing made their first contribution in https://github.com/apache/sedona/pull/2835

Highlights

[X] [<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2609'>GH-2609</a>] - Support Spark 4.1
[X] [<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2610'>GH-2610</a>] - Integrate proj4sedona for CRS transformation, with full support for PROJJSON, PROJ strings, WKT2, and other CRS formats, plus grid file support for high-accuracy datum shifts
[X] [<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/1327'>GH-1327</a>] - Add Bing Tile functions
[X] [<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/908'>GH-908</a>] - Add ST_GeoHashNeighbors and ST_GeoHashNeighbor functions
[X] [<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2652'>GH-2652</a>] - Add RS_AsCOG SQL function for Cloud Optimized GeoTiff output
[X] [<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2674'>GH-2674</a>] - Add RS_SetCRS and RS_CRS for custom CRS string support
[X] [<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2672'>GH-2672</a>] - Add a new raster data source reader that automatically tiles GeoTiffs to bypass Spark's 2GB record size limit and avoid OOM issues when loading single large rasters
[X] [<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2646'>GH-2646</a>] - Auto-populate covering metadata for GeoParquet 1.1.0 writes
[X] [<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2664'>GH-2664</a>] - GeoParquet writer utilizes geometry SRID to produce projjson CRS metadata
[X] Multiple GeoPandas API improvements including clip_by_rect, shortest_line, offset_curve, minimum_clearance, and more
[X] [<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2678'>GH-2678</a>] - SVG visual illustrations for SQL function documentation

New Features

Core Features

[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2609'>GH-2609</a>] - Support Spark 4.1
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2610'>GH-2610</a>] - Integrate proj4sedona for CRS transformation
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/1327'>GH-1327</a>] - Add Bing Tile functions
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/908'>GH-908</a>] - Add ST_GeoHashNeighbors and ST_GeoHashNeighbor functions
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2799'>GH-2799</a>] - Add ST_OffsetCurve function
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2798'>GH-2798</a>] - Add ST_ShortestLine function
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2652'>GH-2652</a>] - Add RS_AsCOG SQL function for Cloud Optimized GeoTiff output
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2674'>GH-2674</a>] - Add RS_SetCRS and RS_CRS for custom CRS string support
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2672'>GH-2672</a>] - Add a new raster data source reader that can automatically tile GeoTiffs
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2360'>GH-2360</a>] - Support fetching libpostal model data from HDFS/object store

GeoParquet

[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2646'>GH-2646</a>] - Auto-populate covering metadata for GeoParquet 1.1.0 writes
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2376'>GH-2376</a>] - Preserve CRS SRID from GeoParquet metadata when reading geometries
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2664'>GH-2664</a>] - GeoParquet writer utilizes geometry SRID to produce projjson CRS metadata

Data Source Readers

[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2760'>GH-2760</a>] - Extend OSM PBF reader to support additional metadata fields
[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SEDONA-729'>SEDONA-729</a>] - Add _metadata hidden column support for shapefile DataSource V2 reader
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2651'>GH-2651</a>] - Add _metadata hidden column support for GeoPackage DataSource V2 reader

GeoPandas API

[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2230'>GH-2230</a>] - Implement GeoSeries.clip_by_rect
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2230'>GH-2230</a>] - Implement GeoSeries.shortest_line and GeoSeries.offset_curve
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2230'>GH-2230</a>] - Implement GeoSeries.minimum_clearance
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2230'>GH-2230</a>] - Implement GeoSeries: reverse, normalize, representative_point
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2725'>GH-2725</a>] - Implement GeoSeries: type, unary_union, delaunay_triangles, voronoi_polygons, disjoint, m
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2709'>GH-2709</a>] - Implement GeoSeries: line_merge, count_coordinates, count_geometries, count_interior_rings, concave_hull, minimum_rotated_rectangle, exterior, extract_unique_points, remove_repeated_points
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2731'>GH-2731</a>] - Implement GeoSeries: frechet_distance, hausdorff_distance, geom_equals, interpolate, project
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2765'>GH-2765</a>] - Implement GeoSeries: relate_pattern, contains_properly, build_area, polygonize
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2768'>GH-2768</a>] - Replace len(self)==0 with cheaper _is_empty() check in GeoSeries

Bug Fixes

[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2781'>GH-2781</a>] - Fix EOFException in OSM PBF reader when file is split across partitions
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2720'>GH-2720</a>], [<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2721'>GH-2721</a>], [<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2722'>GH-2722</a>], [<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2723'>GH-2723</a>] - Fix geometry function bugs
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2702'>GH-2702</a>] - Fix ST_LineMerge returning empty collection for LineString input
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2704'>GH-2704</a>] - Disable TransformNestedUDTParquet on Spark 4.1+
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2640'>GH-2640</a>] - Simplify warning messages of SedonaContext.create()
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2659'>GH-2659</a>] - Fix file-based readers on Databricks by using reflection for DataSource.checkAndGlobPathIfNecessary
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2650'>GH-2650</a>] - Fix warning message when reading shapefiles from S3
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2640'>GH-2640</a>] - Skip re-registration of functions in SedonaContext.create()
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2608'>GH-2608</a>] - Fix RasterUDT JSON schema serialization for Delta/Parquet write
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2407'>GH-2407</a>] - Auto-detect raster columns in SedonaUtils.display_image
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/1979'>GH-1979</a>] - Fix ST_Envelope and ST_Envelope_Aggr empty geometry handling
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2373'>GH-2373</a>] - Fix ST_Azimuth returning 0.0 instead of null for identical points
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/1874'>GH-1874</a>] - Fix ST_XYMin/Max returning sentinel values for EMPTY geometries
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2403'>GH-2403</a>] - SetSRID handle empty geometry types
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2408'>GH-2408</a>] - RS_ZonalStats: fix incorrect 4-arg function signature
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2390'>GH-2390</a>] - GeometryType: add regression test for EMPTY geometries
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2148'>GH-2148</a>] - fix(ST_MakePolygon) warn when holes lie outside shell
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2611'>GH-2611</a>] - Merge linestring splitting results to avoid extra segments
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2603'>GH-2603</a>] - Fix ST_AreaSpheroid for polygons with holes
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2396'>GH-2396</a>] - Making splitting polygon by line robust
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2590'>GH-2590</a>] - Upgrade campskeleton

Improvements

[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2657'>GH-2657</a>] - Upgrade proj4sedona to 0.0.4 and adopt UrlCRSProvider
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2823'>GH-2823</a>] - Bump graphframes version to 0.11.0
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2589'>GH-2589</a>] - Bump graphframes to 0.10.1
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2744'>GH-2744</a>] - Clean up Maven build logs
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2679'>GH-2679</a>] - Add return data type to SQL function docs
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2676'>GH-2676</a>] - Convert monolithic function pages into individual doc pages
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2678'>GH-2678</a>] - SVG visual illustrations for SQL function documentation (Phases 1-13)
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2769'>GH-2769</a>] - Improve raster loader, writer, and viz docs
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2791'>GH-2791</a>] - Add platform tags to docs search results
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2815'>GH-2815</a>] - Disable offline link detection in maven-javadoc-plugin
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2652'>GH-2652</a>] - Add a pure Java single-thread COG writer

1.8.19 Jan 2026Security

[ GH-2422 ] Bump minio version to 8.6.0 due to CVE-2025-59952 by @jiayuasu in #2423

Binary download link: https://sedona.apache.org/1.8.1/download/
Release notes: https://sedona.apache.org/1.8.1/setup/release-notes/
Maven coordinate: https://sedona.apache.org/1.8.1/setup/maven-coordinates/

What's Changed

[DOCS] Update Sedona release script by @jiayuasu in #2346
[DOCS] Homepage redesign by @andrii-marushchak in #2296
[GH-2348][Python] Make STAC tests resilient to external server failures by @zhangfengcdt in #2349
[GH-2348] Fix STAC tests resilience to external server failures in Scala by @zhangfengcdt in #2350
[GH-2351] [CI] Fix R CI flakiness with Spark download from PySpark by @zhangfengcdt in #2352
[DOCS] Fix comment and doc consistency issues in GeoPandas API by @zhangfengcdt in #2355
[DOCS] adding announcement bar SedonaDB and SpatialBench to Homepage by @kadolor in #2358
[DOCS] update homepage links by @MrPowers in #2353
[GH-2356] Implement barrier udf function by @zhangfengcdt in #2357
[GH-2240] Fix write and read nested geometry array using vectorized parquet reader by @zhangfengcdt in #2359
[DOCS] blog: announce sedonadb post by @MrPowers in #2361
[DOCS] Update the SedonaDB announcement blog post by @jiayuasu in #2362
docs: move cta by @MrPowers in #2363
[DOCS] add hactoberfest to the repo labels and fix the merge button by @jiayuasu in #2374
[SEDONA-745] Fix osm parser. by @Imbruced in #2375
[GH-2377] Implement is_closed by @yunchipang in #2378
[DOCS] Fixed mobile sidebar navigation by @andrii-marushchak in #2382
[CI] Update the pipfile version to require python 3.8 by @zhangfengcdt in #2383
docs: Update documented output for ST_GeometryType to not be all caps by @petern48 in #2391
[GH-2377] test is_closed on all geo types by @yunchipang in #2387
[GH-2365] Modernize Sedona Python project by switching to pyproject.toml and uv by @Kontinuation in #2393
[GH-2394] Implement symmetric_difference by @yunchipang in #2395
[GH-2398] Implement geopandas union by @yunchipang in #2399
[SEDONA-746] Fix RS_Clip behavior by @prantogg in #2400
[GH-2367] Add ST_ApproximateMedialAxis and ST_StraightSkeleton UDFs by @zhangfengcdt in #2380
[GH-2365] Consolidate Python dependency files for building docs to pyproject.toml by @Kontinuation in #2401
[GH-2404] chore(geopandas): Add empty cases to match test suite + fix edge cases by @petern48 in #2405
[GH-2365] Fix mike command when running docs workflow on master branch by @Kontinuation in #2410
Bump actions/first-interaction from 1 to 3 by @dependabot[bot] in #2324
Bump jupyterlab from 4.3.6 to 4.4.9 in /docker by @dependabot[bot] in #2370
Bump pypa/cibuildwheel from 2.23.3 to 3.2.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #2369
build(deps): bump rasterio from 1.3.11 to 1.4.3 in /docker by @dependabot[bot] in #1865
[CI] pre-commit: run maven-spotless-apply and oxipng manually by @jbampton in #2197
[CI] Fix first-interaction.yml workflow warnings by @jbampton in #2412
[DOCS] Fix typo in code comment by @jbampton in #2413
[CI] Clean up Python Bandit skips by @jbampton in #2178
[GH-2422] Bump minio version to 8.6.0 due to CVE-2025-59952 by @jiayuasu in #2423
[GH-2424] Remove gulp-minify from doc build by @jiayuasu in #2425
[GH-2419] Register Sedona functions as built-in functions to support permanent VIEW creation by @zhangfengcdt in #2420
[CI] Optimize Dependabot PRs by using groups by @jbampton in #2429
[DOCS] Add Feng Zhang to PMC and Dewey Dunnington as Committer on contributor.md by @jbampton in #2433
[DOCS] Fix typos: NomalizedDifference -> NormalizedDifference by @jbampton in #2434
[CI] Update and document the pre-commit hooks by @jbampton in #2411
[CI] pre-commit: auto add license headers for Shell files by @jbampton in #2435
[GH-2406] Make ST_Distance return null instead of 0.0 when arg is empty geom by @petern48 in #2447
[DOCS] Fix typos in usecases by @jbampton in #2449
[CI] pre-commit fix oxipng repo link and clean up config by @jbampton in #2443
[CI] pre-commit standardize scalafmt.conf license header by @jbampton in #2439
[CI] pre-commit auto add license headers for batch files by @jbampton in #2438
[DOCS] Add sphinx-autobuild dependency for docs hot reloading by @jbampton in #2437
[DOCS] link development guides in CONTRIBUTING.md (#2448) by @bunnysocks in #2451
[GH-2432] Fix first-interaction workflow by adding permissions by @jbampton in #2459
[GH-2454] : Implement binary predicate relate for Geopandas by @gauravbyte in #2455
[CI] Remove macOS 13 image from CI workflow (#2453) by @bunnysocks in #2458
[GH-2460] Increment graphframes version by @james-willis in #2461
[CI] Improve first interaction welcome message by @bunnysocks in #2463
[DOCS] replace Pipfile reference with pyproject.toml (#2414) by @bunnysocks in #2462
[BLOG] spatial tables in data lakehouses by @MrPowers in #2418
[GH-2456] chore(geopandas): remove 'IMPLEMENTATION_STATUS' global variables by @bunnysocks in #2464
[GH-2465] Log4j Class Initialization Deadlock in SedonaKryoRegistrator Class. Closes issue #2465 by @joonaspessi in #2467
[GH-2470] Fix ST_Envelope behavior to return input geom for empty geom cases by @petern48 in #2471
[GH-2137] bug: Make ST_LineMerge return merged lines instead of original when there are more than one by @petern48 in #2469
[DOCS] Add Peter Nguyen as Committer by @petern48 in #2477
Replace assert_series_equal with check_pd_series_equal in geopandas t… by @Subham-KRLX in #2421
[GH-2476] Implement convex_hull by @chay0112 in #2484
[GH-2485] Implement minimum_bounding_circle by @chay0112 in #2488
[GH-2482] Geopandas: Implement intersection_all by @Subham-KRLX in #2486
[SEDONA-748] Fix issue with no optimization for weighting function by @Imbruced in #2490
[GH-2491] Implement force_2d by @chay0112 in #2493
[GH-2496] Fix failed docs build by @jiayuasu in #2497
[GH-2472] Fix compatibility issue with DBR 17.3 LTS by @Kontinuation in #2499
[DOCS] update blog author images by @MrPowers in #2501
Implement minimum_bounding_radius by @chay0112 in #2502
[GH-2389] replace GeometryType() with ST_GeometryType() by @yunchipang in #2416
[GH-2506] Fix segmentize array-like input and support lists as 'array-like' by @petern48 in #2507
[GH-2441] Fix failed example project build by @jiayuasu in #2498
[SEDONA-2474] New Java Spark Example by @aleczoeller in #2475
[CI] Use pre-commit run --color=always by @jbampton in #2500
build(deps): bump the github-dependencies group across 1 directory with 10 updates by @dependabot[bot] in #2468
build(deps-dev): bump js-yaml from 4.1.0 to 4.1.1 in /docs-overrides by @dependabot[bot] in #2508
[GH-2509] Refactor the example projects to include better examples by @jiayuasu in #2510
[GH-2513] chore(python): Make 'assert_geometry_almost_equal' check for Z and M dimensions too by @petern48 in #2517
[GH-2489] Update the old dependencies in Sedona docker image by @jiayuasu in #2518
[CI] bugfix(R): Fix testthat compatibility issues with version 3.3.0 by @zhangfengcdt in #2524
[GH-2525] bug: Make ST_Force3D return multipolygons even if it's a single polygon inside by @petern48 in #2526
[GH-2489] Improve the docker image build process by @jiayuasu in #2528
[GH-2522] Implemented STAC authentication for both python and scala APIs by @zhangfengcdt in #2523
[DOCS] Standardize and indent XML files with spaces by @jbampton in #2534
[CI] Standardize and auto add license headers for .properties files by @jbampton in #2533
[CI] Rename label so we can remove duplicate from GitHub by @jbampton in #2530
[CI] pre-commit clean up insert license for other files by @jbampton in #2535
[CI] Add 5 more pre-commit hooks by @jbampton in #2537
gitignore both uv.lock and .venv in root by @jbampton in #2532
[DOCS] Update blog authors titles by @jbampton in #2531
[CI] pre-commit auto add and standardize license headers for XML by @jbampton in #2440
[GH-2549] Upgrade Testcontainers to 2.0.2 by @sekikn in #2550
[DOCS] Pin sphinx version to fix the doc build by @jiayuasu in #2551
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Additional notes

Sedona 1.8.1 is compiled against:

Spark: 3.4, 3.5, 4.0
Flink: 1.19
Snowflake: 7+

Java Requirements:

Spark 3.4 & 3.5: Java 11
Spark 4.0: Java 17

This is a minor release that includes bug fixes, new features, and improvements.

New Contributors

@andrii-marushchak made their first contribution in https://github.com/apache/sedona/pull/2296
@yunchipang made their first contribution in https://github.com/apache/sedona/pull/2378
@bunnysocks made their first contribution in https://github.com/apache/sedona/pull/2451
@gauravbyte made their first contribution in https://github.com/apache/sedona/pull/2455
@joonaspessi made their first contribution in https://github.com/apache/sedona/pull/2467
@chay0112 made their first contribution in https://github.com/apache/sedona/pull/2484
@aleczoeller made their first contribution in https://github.com/apache/sedona/pull/2475
@alexeyegorov made their first contribution in https://github.com/apache/sedona/pull/2561
@radekaadek made their first contribution in https://github.com/apache/sedona/pull/2452

Highlights

[X] [<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2402'>GH-2402</a>] - Add Sedona Flink SQL module for enhanced Flink integration
[X] [<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2419'>GH-2419</a>] - Register Sedona functions as built-in functions to support permanent VIEW creation
[X] [<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2522'>GH-2522</a>] - STAC authentication support for both Python and Scala APIs
[X] [<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2367'>GH-2367</a>] - Add ST_ApproximateMedialAxis and ST_StraightSkeleton functions
[X] [<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2545'>GH-2545</a>] - Add ST_Collect_Agg aggregate function
[X] [<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2552'>GH-2552</a>] - Add ST_OrientedEnvelope function
[X] [<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2365'>GH-2365</a>] - Modernize Sedona Python project by switching to pyproject.toml and uv
[X] Multiple GeoPandas API improvements including is_closed, symmetric_difference, union, convex_hull, and more
[X] Enhanced compatibility with Databricks Runtime 17.3 LTS
[X] Improved example projects with better documentation

New Features

Core Features

[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2367'>GH-2367</a>] - Add ST_ApproximateMedialAxis and ST_StraightSkeleton UDFs
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2419'>GH-2419</a>] - Register Sedona functions as built-in functions to support permanent VIEW creation
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2545'>GH-2545</a>] - Add ST_Collect_Agg aggregate function
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2552'>GH-2552</a>] - Add ST_OrientedEnvelope function
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2547'>GH-2547</a>] - Support *_Agg alias for *_Aggr functions
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2356'>GH-2356</a>] - Implement barrier udf function
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2522'>GH-2522</a>] - Implement STAC authentication for both Python and Scala APIs

Flink

[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2402'>GH-2402</a>] - Add Sedona Flink SQL module

GeoPandas API

[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2377'>GH-2377</a>] - Implement is_closed
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2394'>GH-2394</a>] - Implement symmetric_difference
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2398'>GH-2398</a>] - Implement union
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2476'>GH-2476</a>] - Implement convex_hull
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2485'>GH-2485</a>] - Implement minimum_bounding_circle
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2482'>GH-2482</a>] - Implement intersection_all
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2491'>GH-2491</a>] - Implement force_2d
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2489'>GH-2489</a>] - Implement minimum_bounding_radius
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2504'>GH-2504</a>] - Implement force_3d
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2454'>GH-2454</a>] - Implement binary predicate relate
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2389'>GH-2389</a>] - Replace GeometryType() with ST_GeometryType()

Bug Fixes

Core & Spark

[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SEDONA-745'>SEDONA-745</a>] - Fix OSM parser
[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SEDONA-746'>SEDONA-746</a>] - Fix RS_Clip behavior
[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SEDONA-748'>SEDONA-748</a>] - Fix issue with no optimization for weighting function
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2240'>GH-2240</a>] - Fix write and read nested geometry array using vectorized parquet reader
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2406'>GH-2406</a>] - Make ST_Distance return null instead of 0.0 when arg is empty geom
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2470'>GH-2470</a>] - Fix ST_Envelope behavior to return input geom for empty geom cases
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2137'>GH-2137</a>] - Make ST_LineMerge return merged lines instead of original when there are more than one
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2525'>GH-2525</a>] - Make ST_Force3D return multipolygons even if it's a single polygon inside
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2506'>GH-2506</a>] - Fix segmentize array-like input and support lists as 'array-like'
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2565'>GH-2565</a>] - Fix NULL handling for various aggregation functions in SedonaSpark
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2465'>GH-2465</a>] - Fix Log4j Class Initialization Deadlock in SedonaKryoRegistrator Class
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2472'>GH-2472</a>] - Fix compatibility issue with DBR 17.3 LTS

STAC

[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2348'>GH-2348</a>] - Make STAC tests resilient to external server failures (Python and Scala)

Build & Examples

[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2441'>GH-2441</a>] - Fix failed example project build
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2496'>GH-2496</a>] - Fix failed docs build

Improvements

Python

[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2365'>GH-2365</a>] - Modernize Sedona Python project by switching to pyproject.toml and uv
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2365'>GH-2365</a>] - Consolidate Python dependency files for building docs to pyproject.toml
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2566'>GH-2566</a>] - Temporarily set pyspark < 4.1.0

Infrastructure & Build

[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2460'>GH-2460</a>] - Increment graphframes version
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2422'>GH-2422</a>] - Bump minio version to 8.6.0 due to CVE-2025-59952
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2424'>GH-2424</a>] - Remove gulp-minify from doc build
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2549'>GH-2549</a>] - Upgrade Testcontainers to 2.0.2
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2551'>GH-2551</a>] - Pin sphinx version to fix the doc build

Docker & Examples

[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2489'>GH-2489</a>] - Update the old dependencies in Sedona docker image
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2489'>GH-2489</a>] - Improve the docker image build process
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2509'>GH-2509</a>] - Refactor the example projects to include better examples
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2474'>GH-2474</a>] - New Java Spark Example

GeoPandas

[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2404'>GH-2404</a>] - Add empty cases to match test suite + fix edge cases
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2456'>GH-2456</a>] - Remove 'IMPLEMENTATION_STATUS' global variables
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2513'>GH-2513</a>] - Make 'assert_geometry_almost_equal' check for Z and M dimensions too
Replace assert_series_equal with check_pd_series_equal in geopandas tests

CI & Testing

[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2351'>GH-2351</a>] - Fix R CI flakiness with Spark download from PySpark
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2524'>GH-2524</a>] - Fix testthat compatibility issues with version 3.3.0
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2432'>GH-2432</a>] - Fix first-interaction workflow by adding permissions
Multiple pre-commit hook improvements and additions
Dependabot configuration optimizations

Documentation

[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2296'>GH-2296</a>] - Homepage redesign
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2355'>GH-2355</a>] - Fix comment and doc consistency issues in GeoPandas API
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2519'>GH-2519</a>] - Restructure navigation
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2561'>GH-2561</a>] - Add spatial left join docs solution
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2572'>GH-2572</a>] - Add doc example of specifying broadcast hint in SQL
[<a href='https://github.com/apache/sedona/issues/2577'>GH-2577</a>] - Bump Sedona Python, R, and Zeppelin version to 1.8.1
Multiple documentation typo fixes and improvements
New blog posts: SedonaDB announcement, SpatialBench, and spatial tables in data lakehouses