v23.08.00

🚨 Breaking Changes

• Simplify point-in-polygon header only APIs (#1192) @isVoid

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Update nightly wheel tests for cuproj (#1250) @raydouglass
• Update GeoDataFrame to Use the Structured GatherMap Class (#1219) @isVoid
• Add streams to allocate_like call (#1218) @isVoid
• Add CUDA major to cuspatial's build/string (#1211) @jakirkham
• Fix overflowing in intersection_intermediates.remove_if (#1209) @isVoid
• Sort the mergeable segments before computing merged segments (#1207) @isVoid
• Fix a small typo in pairwise_linestring_distance (#1199) @isVoid
• Improve Polygon.contains(LineString) predicate logic. (#1186) @thomcom
• Use grid_stride_range in kernel loops (#1178) @harrism
• Better support for binary predicates with large inputs. (#1166) @thomcom

📖 Documentation

• cuProj Python and C++ Documentation (#1237) @harrism
• cuSpatial 23.08 README updates (#1232) @jarmak-nv
• Add author credit to zipcode counting notebook, fix cudf string processing argument (#1201) @isVoid
• Remove osmnx dependency and use a small local dataset (#1195) @isVoid

🚀 New Features

• Add geoseries.distance (#1231) @isVoid
• Initial Python bindings for cuProj (#1217) @harrism
• WGS84 to UTM benchmark (C++) (#1216) @harrism
• Adding Spherical Surface Processing Capability to Point-in-Polygon Queries (#1212) @ayasar70
• WGS84 <--> UTM projection header-only API (#1191) @harrism
• External issue triage GHA (#1177) @jarmak-nv
• Binary Predicates Introduction and Benchmark Notebook (#1156) @thomcom
• Add cmake infrastructure for internal projection library (#1132) @harrism

🛠️ Improvements

• Switch to new wheel building pipeline (#1227) @vyasr
• Use Google Benchmark from rapids-cmake in cuproj. (#1225) @bdice
• Use rapids-cmake to supply Google Benchmark library. (#1224) @bdice
• Revert CUDA 12.0 CI workflows to branch-23.08. (#1223) @bdice
• Update to rapidsai/devcontainers:23.08 (#1214) @trxcllnt
• Add Comprehensive Test for Multigeometry Range Classes (#1197) @isVoid
• Update to CMake 3.26.4 (#1196) @vyasr
• Simplify point-in-polygon header only APIs (#1192) @isVoid
• Forward merge branch-23.06 into branch-23.08 (#1190) @raydouglass
• use rapids-upload-docs script (#1181) @AyodeAwe
• Remove Stale Demo Scripts (#1180) @isVoid
• Updates Build Instructions to Adjust for Devcontainer Instructions and Remove Stale Infomation (#1179) @isVoid
• Fix branch-23.06 forward-merge into branch-23.08 (#1175) @trxcllnt
• Remove documentation build scripts for Jenkins (#1169) @ajschmidt8
• cuSpatial: Build CUDA 12 packages (#1044) @isVoid