Release v1.7.0 · stac-utils/pystac

Summary

Many bug fixes and feature additions. Some changes/additions of note:

ItemCollection now clones its items by default (#1016).
Item now implements __geo_interface__ (#885). For more about __geo_interface__, see https://gist.github.com/sgillies/2217756.
We now have a benchmark suite (#748).
We now use pytest (#939).

Issues and pull requests are grouped into the Github milestone.

Additional util methods now_in_utc and now_to_rfc3339_str (#760)
media_type and role filtering to Item and Collection get_assets() method (#936)
Asset.has_role (#936)
Enum MediaType entry for flatgeobuf (discussion) (#938)
Custom header support to DefaultStacIO (#889)
Python 3.11 checks in CI (#908)
Ability to only update resolved links when using Catalog.normalize_hrefs and Catalog.normalize_and_save, via a new skip_unresolved argument (#900)
Optional argument timespec to utils.datetime_to_str (#929)
isort (#961)
AsIsLayoutStrategy (#919)
__geo_interface__ for items (#885)
Optional strategy parameter to catalog.add_items() (#967)
start_datetime and end_datetime arguments to the Item constructor (#918)
RetryStacIO (#986)
STACObject.remove_hierarchical_links and Link.is_hierarchical (#999)
extra_fields to AssetDefinition in the item assets extension (#1003)
Catalog.fully_resolve (#1001)
A DeprecatedWarning when deserializing an Item or Collection to a STAC object via the from_dict() method (1006)
Support for relative stac extension paths via make_absolute_href (#884)

Projection extension updated to use v1.1.0 (#989).
Update Grid Extension support to v1.1.0 and fix issue with grid:code prefix validation (#925)
Switch to pytest (#939)
Use from __future__ import annotations for type signatures (#962)
Use TypeVar for alternate constructors (#983)
Behavior when required fields are missing in Item.from_dict (#994)
By default, ItemCollection now clones items in iterator (clone_items=True) (#1016)

TemplateError in layout.py deprecated in favor of duplicate in errors.py (#1018)

Creating dictionaries from Catalogs and Collections without root hrefs now creates valid STAC (#896)
Dependency resolution when installing requirements-dev.txt (#897)
Serializing optional Collection attributes (#916)
A couple non-running tests (#912)
Filtering on media_type in get_links() and get_single_link() (#966)
Missing hrefs and duplicate Item fields in html generated by _repr_html_() (#975)
Allow subclasses in a few more clone methods (#983)
Pass href from Item.from_dict to constructor (#984)
Serializing the table extension (#992)