Release version 0.5.0

[jorisvandenbossche]

Target release date: January 9, 2023

Current highlights would be:

• Support for the columnar Arrow-backed reading (if GDAL >= 3.6) (#155)
• Wheels:
  • GDAL update from 3.4 to 3.6 + properly built with sqlite+rtree (enabling geopackage spatial index)
  • Python 3.11 wheels
  • MacOS arm64 wheels

I would like to still include the currently open PRs (https://github.com/geopandas/pyogrio/pulls) for enabling dataset options (https://github.com/geopandas/pyogrio/pull/189), correctly writing nulls (https://github.com/geopandas/pyogrio/pull/190), and exposing read_arrow (https://github.com/geopandas/pyogrio/pull/191)

[jorisvandenbossche]

Note to self: if GDAL 3.6.2 is already available by next week, update the wheels to include that version (eg GeoParquet 1.0.0-beta1 support)

[kylebarron]

looks like it was released today?

[jorisvandenbossche]

Yep, but we need https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/pull/28741 to be merged to use it in the wheel building

[jorisvandenbossche]

Released! -> https://github.com/geopandas/pyogrio/releases/tag/v0.5.0

(still waiting on conda-forge packages)

[brendan-ward]

Thanks @jorisvandenbossche !

[mtravis]

Great work @jorisvandenbossche ! Look forward to testing this soon.