[PROJ] PROJ 8.0.0RC1 and PROJ-data 1.5RC1

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Kristian, all,

I've been testing locally with RC1, so far so good with Visual Studio on 
Windows.  (with GDAL3, MapServer-dev, libgeotiff-master, 
libspatialite-5.0.1, etc.)

Will continue to play with it...

-jeff




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Jeff McKenna
GatewayGeo: MapServer Consulting and Training Services
co-founder of FOSS4G
http://gatewaygeo.com/



On 2021-02-20 9:24 a.m., Kristian Evers wrote:
> All,
> 
> I have just uploaded releases candiates for the upcoming releases of PROJ 8.0.0 and PROJ-data 1.5.
> 
> The PROJ release candidate is includes various improvements, a few bug fixes and most notably
> it *doesn’t* include the proj_api.h header. See the draft release notes below.
> 
> The PROJ-data packages includes new grids for the Norwegian NN1954 and NN2000 height systems
> as well as NODATA fixes to dk_sdfe_dnn.tif and no_kv_HREF2018B_NN2000_EUREF89.tif.
> 
> Download the two release candidates here:
> 
> http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-8.0.0RC1.tar.gz
> http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-8.0.0RC1.zip
> 
> http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-data-1.5RC1.tar.gz
> http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-data-1.5RC1.zip
> 
> As usual everyone who uses PROJ is encouraged to try out the release candidates and report
> back their experiences either here on the mailing list or in the issue tracker on GitHub.
> 
> /Kristian
> 
> 
> ————————
> 
> 8.0.0 Release Notes
> -------------------
> 
> With the release of PROJ 8 the proj_api.h API is finally removed. See
> https://proj.org/development/migration.html for more info on how to migrate
> from the old to the proj.h API.
> 
> With the removal of proj_api.h it has been possible to simplify error codes
> and messages given by the software. The error codes are exposed in the API.
> 
> Several improvements has been made to the command line utilities as well as
> tweaks in the underlying API.
> 
>   Updates
>   -------
> 
>   o Public header file proj_api.h removed (#837)
> 
>   o Improved accuracy of the Mercator projection (#2397)
> 
>   o Copyright statement wording updated (#2417)
> 
>   o Allow cct to instantiate operations via object codes or names (#2419)
> 
>   o Allow @filename syntax in cct (#2420)
> 
>   o Added geocentric->topocentric conversion (+proj=topocentric) (#2444)
> 
>   o Update GeographicLib to version 1.51 (#2445)
> 
>   o Added option to allow export of Geographic/Projected 3D CRS
>     in WKT1_GDAL (#2450)
> 
>   o Added --area and --bbox options in cs2cs to restrict candidate
>     coordinate operations (#2466)
> 
>   o Added build time option to make PROJ_LIB env var tested last (#2476)
> 
>   o Added --authority switch in cs2cs to control where coordinate operations
>     are looked for. C API function proj_create_crs_to_crs_from_pj() updated
>     accordingly (#2477)
> 
>   o Error codes revised and exposed in the public API (#2487)
> 
>   o Added --accuracy options to projinfo. C API function
>     proj_create_crs_to_crs_from_pj() updated accordingly (#2488)
> 
>   o Added proj_crs_is_derived() function to C API (#2496)
> 
>   o Enabled linking against static cURL on Windows (#2514)
> 
>   o Updated ESRI CRS database to 12.7 (10.8.1/2.6) (#2519)
> 
>   o Allow a WKT BoundCRS to use a PROJ string transformation (#2521)
> 
>   o Update to EPSG v10.015 (#2539)
> 
>   o Default log level set to PJ_LOG_ERROR #2542)
> 
>   Bug fixes
>   ---------
> 
>   o Do not restrict longitude to [-90;90] range in spherical transver Mercator
>     forward projection (#2471)
> 
>   o createOperations(): fix Compound to Geog3D/Projected3D CRS with non-metre ellipsoidal height (#2500)
> 
>   o Avoid error messages to be emitted log level is set to PJ_LOG_NONE (#2527)
> 
>   o Close database connection when autoclose set to True (#2532)
> 
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