[geos-devel] GEOS 3.8.1

[Paul Ramsey]

The latest patch release of GEOS stable branch is out. 
We recommend you upgrade as soon as possible, there is a fixed bug that can be exercised to crash backend services.
There is also a fixed performance issue relative to the 3.7 branch.

http://download.osgeo.org/geos/geos-3.8.1.tar.bz2

Improvements:  
  - Stack allocate line segments in OverlapUnion (Paul Ramsey)
  - Avoid returning non-empty CoordinateSequence from empty Point
    (#1001, Dan Baston)
  - Avoid assertion failure with MSVC 2017 / 2019 (#1002, Dan Baston)
  - Remove whitespace from end of GEOSversion() output (azhi)
  - Improve performance of GEOSisValid (#1008, Dan Baston)
  - Avoid changing MultiLineString component order in GEOSReverse
    (#1013, Dan Baston)
  - Fix missing vtable for LineString and CoordinateArraySequenceFactory
    (#299 and #1016, Evgen Bodunov)
  - Reduce performance regression in GEOSBuffer (#1020)