This is a major release with significant amount of modifications, including some breaking changes:

• Support for NumPy 2.0 (thanks to@cvanelteren).
• Support for Python 3.13.
• Removal of support for end-of-life Python versions (Python < 3.9).
• New workflow for automated wheels based oncibuildwheel with all major platforms (thanks to@cvanelteren).
• New repository structure with more focus on thebasemap main package versus the auxiliary data packages.
• Migration to implicit namespace packages (thanks to@ksunden).

Please visit theCHANGELOG for a complete list of changes.

Contributors