1.16.0-RC1

The JTS team is pleased to share the release candidate JTS 1.16.0-RC1.

If anyone finds issues with this release, please post them to our mailing list or as issues on the JTS GitHub site.

API Changes

• Added XYZM support to CoordinateSequence and CoordinateSequenceFactory with getDimension() and getMeasures() information.
• Introduced Coordinate methods for getX(), getY(), getZ(), and getM().
• Deprecated Coordinate.z field, use Coordinate.getZ()
• Coordinate subclasses introduced for XY, XYM, XYZM representations.

Functionality Improvements

• Removed PackedCoordinateSequenceFactory constructor used to supply a default dimension, use appropriate create( size, dimension ) instead.
• WKTReader and WKTWriter support for measures