[OSGeo-Announce] PROJ 7.0.1 & 6.3.2 released (2020-05-01)

[Astrid Emde (OSGeo)]

News item by Kristian Evers 2020-05-01
see also: 
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/proj-7-0-1-6-3-2-released-2020-05-01/

On behalf of the PROJ development team I am happy to announce the 
release
of both PROJ 6.3.2 and 7.0.1. These are both bug fix releases and should
provide a more stable experience for PROJ users on both the 6.3 and 7.0
branches.

See release notes below for details. Download the source distributions 
here:

https://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-6.3.2.tar.gz 
(https://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-6.3.2.tar.gz.md5)
https://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-6.3.2.zip 
(https://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-6.3.2.zip.md5)

https://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-7.0.1.tar.gz 
(https://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-7.0.1.tar.gz.md5)
https://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-7.0.1.zip 
(https://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-7.0.1.zip.md5)



7.0.1 Release Notes
-------------------

Updates
-------

o Database: update to EPSG v9.8.9 (#2141)

Bug fixes
---------

o Make tests independent of proj-datumgrid (#1995)

o Add missing projection property tables (#1996)

o Avoid crash when running against SQLite3 binary built with
  -DSQLITE_OMIT_AUTOINIT (#1999)

o createOperations(): fix wrong pipeline generation with CRS that has 
+nadgrids=
  and +pm= (#2002)

o Fix bad copy&replace pattern on HEALPix and rHEALPix projection names 
(#2007)

o createUnitOfMeasure(): use full double resolution for the conversion
  factor (#2014)

o Update README with info on PROJ-data (#2015)

o utm/ups: make sure to set errno to PJD_ERR_ELLIPSOID_USE_REQUIRED if
  es==0 (#2045)

o data/Makefile.am: remove bashism (#2048)

o ProjectedCRS::identify(): tune it to better work with ESRI WKT
  representation of EPSG:2193 (#2059)

o Fix build with gcc 4.8.5 (#2066)

o Autotools/pkg-conf: Define datarootdir (#2069)

o cs2cs: don't require +to for '{source_crs} {target_crs} filename...'
  syntax (#2081)

o CMake: fix bug with find_package(PROJ) with macOS (#2082)

o ESRI WKT import / identification: special case for
  NAD_1983_HARN_StatePlane_Colorado_North_FIPS_0501 with Foot_US unit 
(#2088)

o ESRI WKT import / identification: special case for
  NAD_1983_HARN_StatePlane_Colorado_North_FIPS_0501 with Foot_US unit 
(#2089)

o EngineeringCRS: when exporting to WKT1_GDAL, output unit and axis 
(#2092)

o Use jtsk03-jtsk horizontal grid from CDN (#2098)

o CMake: prefer to use use PROJ_SOURCE_DIR and PROJ_BINARY_DIR (#2100)

o Fix wrong grids file name in esri.sql (#2104)

o Fix identification of projected CRS whose name is close but not 
strictly
  equal to a ESRI alias (#2106)

o Fix working of Helmert transform between the horizontal part of
  2 compoundCRS (#2111)

o Database: fix registration of custom entries of 
grid_transformation_custom.sql
  for geoid grids (#2114)

o ESRI_WKT ingestion: make sure to identify to non-deprecated EPSG entry 
when
  possible (#2119)

o Make sure that importing a Projected 3D CRS from WKT:2019 keeps the 
base
  geographic CRS as 3D (#2125)

o createOperations(): improve results of compoundCRS to compoundCRS case 
(#2131)

o hgridshift/vgridshift: defer grid opening when grid has already
  been opened (#2132)

o Resolve a few shadowed declaration warnings (#2142)

o ProjectedCRS identification: deal with switched 1st/2nd std parallels 
for
  LCC_2SP(#2153)

o Fix Robinson inverse projection (#2154)

o createOperations(): do not remove ballpark transformation if there are 
only
  grid based operations, even if they cover the whole area of use (#2156)

o createFromCoordinateReferenceSystemCodes(): 'optimization' to avoid 
using
  C++ exceptions (#2161)

o Ingestion of WKT1_GDAL: correctly map 'Cylindrical_Equal_Area' (#2167)

o Add limited support for non-conformant WKT1 LAS COMPD_CS[] (#2172)

o PROJ4 string import: take into correctly non-metre unit when the 
string
  looks like the one for WGS 84 / Pseudo Mercator (#2177)

o io.hpp: avoid dependency to proj_json_streaming_writer.hpp (#2184)

o Fix support of WKT1_GDAL with netCDF rotated pole formulation (#2186)



6.3.2 Release Notes
-------------------

Bug fixes
---------

o validateParameters(): fix false-positive warning on
  Equidistant Cylindrical (#1947)

o proj_create_crs_to_crs(): avoid potential reprojection failures when
  reprojecting area of use to source and target CRS (#1993)

o createOperations(): fix wrong pipeline generation with CRS that has 
+nadgrids=
  and +pm= (#2003)

o Fix bad copy&replace pattern on HEALPix and rHEALPix projection names 
(#2006)

o createUnitOfMeasure(): use full double resolution for the conversion
  factor (#2013)

o data/Makefile.am: remove bashism (#2047)

o ProjectedCRS::identify(): tune it to better work with ESRI WKT 
representation
  of EPSG:2193 (#2058)

o EngineeringCRS: when exporting to WKT1_GDAL, output unit and axis 
(#2091)

o Add missing entries in grid_alternatives for Portugal grids coming 
from
  ESRI entries (#2103)

o Fix working of Helmert transform between the horizontal part of 2
  compoundCRS (#2110)

o ESRI_WKT ingestion: make sure to identify to non-deprecated EPSG entry 
when
  possible (#2118)

o Make sure that importing a Projected 3D CRS from WKT:2019 keeps the 
base
  geographic CRS as 3D (#2124)

o createOperations(): improve results of compoundCRS to compoundCRS case 
(#2130)

o PROJ4 string import: take into correctly non-metre unit when the 
string looks
  like the one for WGS 84 / Pseudo Mercator (#2178)

o Fix support of WKT1_GDAL with netCDF rotated pole formulation (#2187)

o io.hpp: avoid dependency to proj_json_streaming_writer.hpp (#2188)