03/15/2025: Sedona 1.7.1 released. It includes performance improvement for KNN join, SQL interface of GeoStats, STAC catalog reader, OSM PBF reader, and better GeoParquet file partitioning.

12/02/2024: Sedona 1.7.0 released. It introduces a new join type named KNN Join, a new statistics module called GeoStats, DataFrame based readers for Shapefiles and GeoPackage, and many new ST functions.

08/24/2024: Sedona 1.6.1 released. It adds a native DataFrame based GeoJSON reader and writer, 48 new ST functions, GeoParquet 1.1.0 covering column, and improves the error handling of ST functions.