v0.56.0

[peterstace]

2025-11-21

• Refactors the internal representation of the geom.Geometry type to use any instead of unsafe.Pointer. This makes geometries compatible with reflect.DeepEqual, which now produces the same result as ExactEquals when called with no options. This change is not detectable externally except that reflect.DeepEqual now works correctly for exactly comparing geometries.

• Replaces all occurrences of interface{} with any throughout the codebase. This includes function parameters, return types, struct fields, and type assertions.

• Breaking change: The minimum required Go version is now 1.18 (previously 1.17). This is required to support the any keyword.

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