2.0.1

Bug fixes:

• Fix regression in the Polygon() constructor taking a sequence of Points (#1662).
• Fix regression in the geometry constructors when passing decimal.Decimal coordinate values (#1707).
• Fix STRtree() to not make the passed geometry array immutable as side-effect of the constructor (#1714).
• Fix the directed keyword in shapely.ops.linemerge() (#1695).

Improvements:

• Expose the function to get a matplotlib Patch object from a (Multi)Polygon (without already plotting it) publicly as :func:shapely.plotting.patch_from_polygon (#1704).

For a full changelog, see https://shapely.readthedocs.io/en/latest/release/2.x.html#version-2-0-1