v0.9.0

Version 0.9.0 - 2026-03-04

New Features

• Add least-cost corridor analysis (#965) (#968)
• Add native Dask+CuPy backends for hydrology core functions (#952) (#966)
• Add native CUDA kernel for hydraulic erosion (#961) (#967)
• Add CuPy and Dask+CuPy backends for kriging (#951) (#960)
• Add NDWI and MNDWI water indices (#959)
• Add morphological raster operators (#949) (#958)
• Add TPI-based landform classification (#950) (#957)
• Add MFD flow direction and accumulation (#946) (#956)
• Add balanced service area partitioning (#939) (#943)
• Add Dinf support to flow_accumulation() (#945)
• Add scalar diffusion solver (#940) (#944)
• Add multi_stop_search for multi-waypoint routing (#935) (#937)
• Add raster-based dasymetric mapping module (#930) (#936)
• Add interpolation tools: IDW, Kriging, and Spline (#932) (#934)

Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Remove esri.py and datashader from core dependencies (#953)
• Add HAND and TWI to README feature matrix (#954) (#955)
• Add missing API reference docs for ~30 undocumented functions (#941) (#942)
• Remove unnecessary array copies to reduce memory allocations (#933)