[PROJ] PROJ 8.2.0RC1 & PROJ-data 1.8RC1

[Kristian Evers]

No issues with the two release candidates have been reported, so I hereby motion
that the candidates be promoted to final. I’ll start with my +1.

/Kristian

> On 26 Oct 2021, at 22:21, Kristian Evers <kristianevers at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> All,
> 
> We’re closing in on the release date for the next PROJ version and hence I have prepared
> release candidates for both PROJ 8.2.0 and PROJ-data 1.8.
> 
> The PROJ release includes a number of new features and bug fixes. See the release notes
> below. The release candidates can be downloaded via the following links:
> 
> http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-8.2.0RC1.tar.gz
> http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-8.2.0RC1.zip
> 
> The PROJ-data release adds two new grid files:
> 
> - SAGEOID2010, South African geoid
> - GGM10, Mexican geoid model
> 
> and can be downloaded here:
> 
> http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-data-1.8RC1.tar.gz
> http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-data-1.8RC1.zip
> 
> Please test the release candidates and report back your findings either here on the
> mailing list in an issue on GitHub. Your feedback is appreciated.
> 
> Note that RFC 7 has been adopted which means that the 8.2 branch will be the last
> which offer the option of building PROJ with autotools. From version 9.0.0 CMake
> builds will be the only option. I encourage everyone to start adapting their build
> workflows accordingly.
> 
> /Kristian
> 
> ——————————————————————————————
> 
> 8.2.0 Release Notes
> -------------------
> 
> Announcements
> -------------
> 
> From PROJ 9.0.0 and onwards CMake will be the only build system bundled
> with the PROJ package. As a consequence support for Autotools builds will
> stop when the 8.2 branch of PROJ reaches end of life. We encourage
> everyone to adjust their build workflows as soon as possible and report
> any discrepancies discovered between Autotools and CMake builds.
> 
> Details about the build system unification can be found in PROJ RFC 7.
> 
> 
> Updates
> -------
> 
> o Added the S2 projection (#2749)
> 
> o Added support for Degree Sign on input (#2791)
> 
> o ESRI WKT: add support for import/export of (non interrupted)
>   Goode Homolosine (#2827)
> 
> o Make filemanager aware of UWP Win32 API (#2831)
> 
> o Add proj_create_conversion_pole_rotation_netcdf_cf_convention() to
>   address netCDF datasets using a pole rotation method (#2835)
> 
> o Emit better debug message when a grid isn't found (#2838)
> 
> o Add support for GeodeticCRS using a Spherical planetocentric
>   coordinate system (#2847)
> 
> o PROJJSON: support additional properties allowed in id object (version,
>   authority_citation, uri) for parity with WKT2:2019 (#2850)
> 
> o Database layout modified to include "anchor" field to geodetic_datum and
>   vertical_datum tables, consequently database layout version is increased
>   to 1.2 (#2859)
> 
> o proj_factors(): accept P to be a projected CRS (#2868)
> 
> o Add IAU_2015 CRS definitions (#2876)
> 
> o CRS::extractGeodeticCRS(): implement for DerivedProjectedCRS (#2877)
> 
> o Added proj_trans_bounds() (#2882)
> 
> o CMake: add a BUILD_APPS to be able to disable build of all applications (#2895)
> 
> o CMake: generate invproj/invgeod binaries (symlinks on Unix, copy otherwise)
>   (#2897)
> 
> o CMake build: add generate_wkt1_parser and generate_wkt2_parser manual
>   target, and logic to detect when they must be run (#2900)
> 
> o Add fallback strategy for tinshift transform to use closest triangle for
>   points not in any (#2907)
> 
> o Database: update to EPSG v10.038 (#2910)
> 
> o CMake: revise handling of symbol export and static builds (#2912)
> 
> Bug fixes
> ---------
> 
> o Fix O(n^2) performance patterns where n is the number of steps of
>   a pipeline (#2820)
> 
> o Detect ESRI WKT better in certain circumstances (#2823)
> 
> o Fix performance issue on pipeline instanciation of huge (broken)
>   pipelines (#2824)
> 
> o Make sure to re-order projection parameters according to their canonical
>   order if needed (#2842)
> 
> o Fix database access across fork() when SQLite3 doesn't use pread[64]() (#2845)
> 
> o Fix error in implementation of Inverse ellipsoidal orthographic projection
>   that cause convergence to sometimes fail (#2853)
> 
> o Fix handling of edge-case coordinates in invers ortho ellipsoidal
>   oblique (#2855)
> 
> o proj_normalize_for_visualization(): set input and output units when there
>   are several alternative transformations (#2867)
> 
> o CRS::identify(): fix ignoring CS order when identifying a geodetic CRS
>   by a PROJ string with just the ellipsoid (#2881)
> 
> o Fix CRS Equality with PROJ parameter order (#2887)
> 
> o WKT concatenated operation parsing: fix when a axis order reversal conversion
>   is the first or last operation (#2891)
> 
> o WKT1 parser: recognize Lambert_Conformal_Conic as projection name for
>   LCC 1SP or 2SP (#2893)
> 
> o CMake: Always build gie if testing is requested (#2899)
> 
> o Geographic 3D CRS: allow to export to WKT1:ESRI if only the GEOGCS is known
>   (and thus extrapolating a VERTCS) (#2902)
> 
> o lib_proj.cmake: add a PROJ::proj alias and add BUILD_INTERFACE include
>   directories, so that proj can be used as a subdirectory of a larger
>   project (#2913)
> 
>