#118 : Geospatial Indices. You can now create ZOrder Curve indices for Shapes and columns of shapes.
#137 : Ability to index geometries while reading from GeoJSON/ Shapefile formats automatically
#145 , #144 : Ability to index spatial joins dynamically as well as to reuse existing indices. This can often speed up joins by orders of magnitude. (1.0.5 supports spatial joins for Inner Joins and Within operations only, the rest will go through the non index code path).
#146 : Ability to read large shape files by splitting them efficiently
#123 : Support for Multipolygons in GeoJSON. Multipolygons are read in as flat maps of Polygons.
#117 : WKT Parser to support reading WKT strings as shapes.