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 # Changes
 
+Version 1.3rc1 (2019-05-14)
+
+We closed a total of 54 issues (enhancements and bug fixes) through 18 pull requests, since our last release on 2019-02-27.
+
+## Issues Closed
+- Updating notebooks prior to v1.3 release (#275)
+- updating README (#274)
+- update notebooks following prior to v1.3 release (#158)
+- TypeError: '>' not supported between instances of '_NodeCursor' and '_NodeCursor' (#196)
+- Update docsite (#273)
+- fix docs building (#272)
+- docs failing with rtree (#268)
+- 3.5 --> 3.7 readthedocs (#269)
+- updating README.md (#271)
+- conda-forge recipe (#265)
+- Solo owner/maintainer (#270)
+- update requirements in README (#266)
+- updating requirements in README (#267)
+- Switch snapping to Rtree package? (#259)
+- update python versions in setup.py (#262)
+- updating supported python versions in setup.py (#263)
+- Drop 3.5, Add 3.7 testing (#260)
+- adding support for python3.7 (#261)
+- Update Facility_Location.ipynb (#257)
+- Further failures in TravisCI builds. (`rake`) (#256)
+- bumping down geopandas requirement to 0.3.0 (#255)
+- bumping geopandas req version to 0.4.1 (#254)
+- TravisCI build failing with `geopandas` (#253)
+- Streamline setup travis (#252)
+- Remove redundancies in `requirements_xxx.txt` files (#250)
+- Removing redundant requirements (#251)
+- pandas.core error leading to Travis CI failure (#240)
+- uniform .travis.yml (#248)
+- switching from pip to conda for reqs install resolves .travis error (#249)
+- v1.2.rc1? (#246)
+- updating GitHub version badge (#247)
+- update version badges (#245)
+- AttributeError: module 'spaghetti' has no attribute 'element_as_gdf' (#242)
+- bump from rc to stable (#244)
+- v1.2rc1 bump (#243)
+- adding pandas as a requirement (#241)
+
+## Pull Requests
+- Updating notebooks prior to v1.3 release (#275)
+- updating README (#274)
+- Update docsite (#273)
+- fix docs building (#272)
+- 3.5 --> 3.7 readthedocs (#269)
+- updating README.md (#271)
+- updating requirements in README (#267)
+- Switch snapping to Rtree package? (#259)
+- updating supported python versions in setup.py (#263)
+- adding support for python3.7 (#261)
+- Update Facility_Location.ipynb (#257)
+- bumping down geopandas requirement to 0.3.0 (#255)
+- bumping geopandas req version to 0.4.1 (#254)
+- Streamline setup travis (#252)
+- switching from pip to conda for reqs install resolves .travis error (#249)
+- updating GitHub version badge (#247)
+- bump from rc to stable (#244)
+- v1.2rc1 bump (#243)
+
+The following individuals contributed to this release:
+
+- James Gaboardi
+- Wei Kang
+- Levi John Wolf
+- @Tomgertin
+
+
+-----------------------------------------------------
+
+# Changes
+
+Version 1.2rc1 (2019-02-27)
+
+We closed a total of 160 issues (enhancements and bug fixes) through 60 pull requests, since our last release on 2018-11-01.
+
+## Issues Closed
+- Coverage testing (#239)
+- update .travis.yml and introduce .coveragerc similar to pysal/giddy#81 (#238)
+- Update `bug` template (#237)
+- Update issue templates (#236)
+- Add .github directory based on libpysal (#234)
+- Adding community info (#235)
+- remove README.rst (#223)
+- Removing README.rst and updating setup.py (#233)
+- pysal/giddy#77 (reference labels) (#231)
+- Ref docs (#232)
+- Api site doc (#230)
+- correction in notebooks/Network_Usage.ipynb (#229)
+- edges_to_arcs naming convention (#227)
+- altering edges_to_arcs crosswalk name (#228)
+- Improve in-line docs -- 24PullRequests for Christmas (#202)
+- updating utils.py docs (#226)
+- updating all analysis.py docs (#224)
+- Docs split arcs (#222)
+- Docs allneighbordistances (#221)
+- updating docs for full_distance_matrix (#220)
+- notes for simulate_observations (#219)
+- Docs net funcs (#218)
+- bug in snapping points? (#125)
+- Deprecation: Container-Based Linux Build Environments (#188)
+- Remove sorted edges (#216)
+- purpose of class SortedEdges(OrderedDict)? (#90)
+- geometry notes in _newpoint_coords (#215)
+- count_per_link -- updating docs (#214)
+- TravisCI error raise ReadTimeoutError(self._pool, None, 'Read timed out.') (#213)
+- variable declaration correction in _snap_to_link (#212)
+- compute_distance_to_vertices -- in-line doc improvement (#211)
+- improved in-line comments in network.Network.distancebandweights (#210)
+- improved in-line comments in network.Network.contiguityweights (#209)
+- improved in-line comments in network.Network._docs_evaluate_napts (#208)
+- improved in-line comments in network.Network._yield_napts (#207)
+- improved in-line comments in network.Network.extractgraph (#206)
+- improved in-line comments in network.Network.extract_components (#205)
+- improved in-line comments in network.Network._round_sig (#204)
+- improved in-line comments in network.Network.__init__ (#203)
+- improved in-line comments in _extractnetwork (#201)
+- minor spaghetti/util.py doc clean (#200)
+- update notebooks following #185 (#187)
+- README graphic legend update (#197)
+- Update notebooks (#199)
+- correcting arc -- arcs attribute (#193)
+- attribute declaration error (network.Network.arc) (#192)
+- (from pysal.network) Edge ID data structure #933 (#176)
+- (from pysal.network) network ring bug #655 (#184)
+- Debug of data structure/algo that led to ring/graph errors (#185)
+- Creating Network instance from road shapefile fails; ValueError: list.remove(x): x not in list (#9)
+- (from pysal.network) Revisit graph weights in network module #496 (#186)
+- Updating spaghetti ReadTheDocs (#183)
+- tree not recorded in same network arc (#180)
+- Nearest tree update (#182)
+- clean/create more coherent and uniform variable names (#49)
+- Updating/standardizing network/graph element naming (#181)
+- Dijkstra maintenance (#179)
+- [MAINT] dijkstra (#178)
+- Adding .png of snapped point to README.md (#177)
+- fixing bug in distancebandweights (#175)
+- bug in network.Network.distancebandweights (#174)
+- determine necessity of test_distance_band_weights (#62)
+- updating ReadTheDocs following #172  (#173)
+- Pep8 docs review (#172)
+- record connected components (#168)
+- [WIP] contiguityweights and connected_components (#171)
+- add break condition in contiguityweights() (#170)
+- Edge Weighting pysal/pysal #609 (#66)
+- Merge unittest scripts (#169)
+- Further streamline unittests (#157)
+- api docs (#162)
+- network element as geodataframe (#143)
+- Refactor element as gdf (#167)
+- Restructure docs (#166)
+- Non responsive docs (#165)
+- typo in dijkstra reference (#163)
+- Update api docs (#164)
+- Update api (#161)
+- cleaning up notebooks/Snapping_Demonstration.ipynb (#160)
+- Update notebooks (#159)
+- add minor test for _round_sig (#152)
+- Round sig test (#156)
+- updating element_as_gdf.rst (#155)
+- Update doc element to gdf (#154)
+- Streamline unittests (#147)
+- Streamline unittests (#153)
+- ENH: element_to_gdf() (#145)
+- correcting list comp syntax in _round_sig (#151)
+- error in _round_sig() when a coordinate is 0.0 (#150)
+- [ENH] streets/network and points need to be in the same CRS/EPSG (#71)
+- update markdown docs fromSpaghetti_Pointpatterns_Empirical.ipynb (#146)
+- updating typo in notebooks/Spaghetti_Pointpatterns_Empirical.ipynb (#149)
+- Minor notebook update (#148)
+- update spaghetti info on pysal.site (#144)
+- fix RuntimeWarning in analysis.py (#140)
+- usage of networkx (#141)
+- updating notebooks (#142)
+- update spaghetti landing site notebook links (#139)
+- rerunning notebooks (#138)
+- travis build still failing (#127)
+
+## Pull Requests
+- Coverage testing (#239)
+- Update `bug` template (#237)
+- Update issue templates (#236)
+- Adding community info (#235)
+- Removing README.rst and updating setup.py (#233)
+- Ref docs (#232)
+- Api site doc (#230)
+- correction in notebooks/Network_Usage.ipynb (#229)
+- altering edges_to_arcs crosswalk name (#228)
+- updating utils.py docs (#226)
+- updating all analysis.py docs (#224)
+- Docs split arcs (#222)
+- Docs allneighbordistances (#221)
+- updating docs for full_distance_matrix (#220)
+- notes for simulate_observations (#219)
+- Docs net funcs (#218)
+- Remove sorted edges (#216)
+- geometry notes in _newpoint_coords (#215)
+- count_per_link -- updating docs (#214)
+- variable declaration correction in _snap_to_link (#212)
+- compute_distance_to_vertices -- in-line doc improvement (#211)
+- improved in-line comments in network.Network.distancebandweights (#210)
+- improved in-line comments in network.Network.contiguityweights (#209)
+- improved in-line comments in network.Network._docs_evaluate_napts (#208)
+- improved in-line comments in network.Network._yield_napts (#207)
+- improved in-line comments in network.Network.extractgraph (#206)
+- improved in-line comments in network.Network.extract_components (#205)
+- improved in-line comments in network.Network._round_sig (#204)
+- improved in-line comments in network.Network.__init__ (#203)
+- improved in-line comments in _extractnetwork (#201)
+- minor spaghetti/util.py doc clean (#200)
+- Update notebooks (#199)
+- correcting arc -- arcs attribute (#193)
+- Debug of data structure/algo that led to ring/graph errors (#185)
+- Updating spaghetti ReadTheDocs (#183)
+- Nearest tree update (#182)
+- Updating/standardizing network/graph element naming (#181)
+- Dijkstra maintenance (#179)
+- Adding .png of snapped point to README.md (#177)
+- fixing bug in distancebandweights (#175)
+- updating ReadTheDocs following #172  (#173)
+- Pep8 docs review (#172)
+- [WIP] contiguityweights and connected_components (#171)
+- Merge unittest scripts (#169)
+- Refactor element as gdf (#167)
+- Restructure docs (#166)
+- Non responsive docs (#165)
+- Update api docs (#164)
+- Update api (#161)
+- cleaning up notebooks/Snapping_Demonstration.ipynb (#160)
+- Update notebooks (#159)
+- Round sig test (#156)
+- updating element_as_gdf.rst (#155)
+- Update doc element to gdf (#154)
+- Streamline unittests (#153)
+- ENH: element_to_gdf() (#145)
+- correcting list comp syntax in _round_sig (#151)
+- updating typo in notebooks/Spaghetti_Pointpatterns_Empirical.ipynb (#149)
+- updating notebooks (#142)
+- rerunning notebooks (#138)
+
+The following individuals contributed to this release:
+
+- James Gaboardi
+
+-----------------------------------------------------
+
+# Changes
+
 Version 1.1.1 (2018-10-31)
 
 We closed a total of 5 issues (enhancements and bug fixes) through 2 pull requests, since our last release on 2018-10-30.