We have just released @geopandas 1.0.0-alpha1, the first of the pre-releases of the upcoming major version of the package ๐Ÿš€. It comes with some changes you may notice in your workflows.

Hereโ€™s a short blog post highlighting the most critical bits - https://martinfleischmann.net/geopandas-1.0-is-coming.-what-will-change/

Please, help us test the pre-release and let us know if something doesn't look right!

```
pip install geopandas --pre -U
```
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GeoPandas 1.0 is coming. What will change?

The GeoPandas team is racing towards the 1.0 release, nearly 10 years after 0.1 made it to PyPI. As with any major release, it brings some changes. This post highlights those I feel are the most important and invites you to test the 1.0.0-alpha1 and later rc versions before we let the stable version fly to the world. Please test! As of today, GeoPandas 1.0 is out as a pre-release 1.