Bump for beta release

NEWS.md

@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 ## Changes in 3.13.0
-20xx-xx-xx
+2024-08-xx
 
 - New things:
   - Add Angle::sinCosSnap to avoid small errors, e.g. with buffer operations (GH-978, Mike Taves)
   - Add classes for curved geometry types: CircularString, CompoundCurve, CurvedPolygon, MultiCurve,
     MultiSurface (GH-1046, Dan Baston/German QGIS users group/Canton of Basel-Landschaft/Canton of Zug)
   - Support curved geometry types in WKT/WKB readers/writers (GH-1046, GH-1104, GH-1106, Dan Baston)
   - Port of RelateNG https://github.com/locationtech/jts/pull/1052 (Martin Davis, Paul Ramsey)
-    - rewrite of boolean predicates and relate matrix calculations. 
+    - Rewrite of boolean predicates and relate matrix calculations
     - "Prepared" mode now available for all predicates and relate matrix
     - CAPI functions GEOSPreparedRelate and GEOSPreparedRelatePattern expose new functionality
     - CAPI implementations of GEOSPreparedTouches, etc, that were previously defaulting 
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
     - https://lin-ear-th-inking.blogspot.com/2024/05/relateng-performance.html 
 
 - Breaking Changes
+  - Zero-length linestrings (eg LINESTRING(1 1, 1 1)) are now treated as equivalent to points (POINT(1 1)) in boolean predicates
 
 - Fixes/Improvements:
   - WKTReader: Points with all-NaN coordinates are not considered empty anymore (GH-927, Casper van der Wel)

Version.txt

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ GEOS_VERSION_MINOR=13
 GEOS_VERSION_PATCH=0
 
 # OPTIONS: "", "dev", "rc1" etc.
-GEOS_PATCH_WORD=dev
+GEOS_PATCH_WORD=beta1
 
 # GEOS CAPI Versions
 #