Changes

0.7.0: 2011-12-29

• 0.7.0 relies on libspatialindex 1.7.1+.
• int64_t’s should be used for IDs instead of uint64_t (requires libspatialindex 1.7.1 C API changes)
• Fix __version__
• More documentation at http://toblerity.github.com/rtree/
• Class documentation at http://toblerity.github.com/rtree/class.html
• Tweaks for PyPy compatibility. Still not compatible yet, however.
• Custom storage support by Mattias (requires libspatialindex 1.7.1)

0.6.0: 2010-04-13

• 0.6.0 relies on libspatialindex 1.5.0+.
• intersection() and nearest() methods return iterators over results instead of lists.
• Number of results for nearest() defaults to 1.
• libsidx C library of 0.5.0 removed and included in libspatialindex
• objects=”raw” in intersection() to return the object sent in (for speed).
• count() method to return the intersection count without the overhead of returning a list (thanks Leonard Norrgård).
• Improved bulk loading performance
• Supposedly no memory leaks :)
• Many other performance tweaks (see docs).
• Bulk loader supports interleaved coordinates
• Leaf queries. You can return the box and ids of the leaf nodes of the index. Useful for visualization, etc.
• Many more docstrings, sphinx docs, etc

0.5.0: 2009-08-XX

0.5.0 was a complete refactoring to use libsidx - a C API for libspatialindex. The code is now ctypes over libsidx, and a number of new features are now available as a result of this refactoring.

• ability to store pickles within the index (clustered index)
• ability to use custom extension names for disk-based indexes
• ability to modify many index parameters at instantiation time
• storage of point data reduced by a factor of 4
• bulk loading of indexes at instantiation time
• ability to quickly return the bounds of the entire index
• ability to return the bounds of index entries
• much better windows support
• libspatialindex 1.4.0 required.

0.4.3: 2009-06-05

• Fix reference counting leak #181

0.4.2: 2009-05-25

• Windows support

0.4.1: 2008-03-24

• Eliminate uncounted references in add, delete, nearestNeighbor (#157).

0.4: 2008-01-24

• Testing improvements.
• Switch dependency to the single consolidated spatialindex library (1.3).

0.3: 26 November 2007

• Change to Python long integer identifiers (#126).
• Allow deletion of objects from indexes.
• Reraise index query errors as Python exceptions.
• Improved persistence.

0.2:

• Link spatialindex system library.

0.1: 13 April 2007

• Add disk storage option for indexes (#320).
• Change license to LGPL.
• Moved from Pleiades to GIS-Python repo.
• Initial release.