[PROJ] PROJ 9.0.0RC1 & PROJ-data 1.9RC1

[Kristian Evers]

All,

I have just uploaded releases candiates for the upcoming releases of PROJ 9.0.0 and PROJ-data 1.9.

The PROJ release candidate is includes various improvements, a few bug fixes and most notably
it *doesn’t* include autotools makefiles. See the draft release notes below.

The PROJ-data packages includes new grids for the Polish ETRF2000-PL, Norwegian chart datum grids
and the Belgian hBG18 geoid model.

Download the two release candidates here:


https://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-9.0.0RC1.tar.gz
https://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-9.0.0RC1.zip


https://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-data-1.9RC1.tar.gz
https://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-data-1.9RC1.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


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9.0.0 Release Notes
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 Breaking Changes
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 o Support for the autotools build system has been removed (#3027)
   See RFC7 for details: https://proj.org/community/rfc/rfc-7.html

 Updates
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 o Database updates:

  + ESRI projection engine db to version 12.9 (#2943)

  + EPSG v10.054 (#3051)

  + Vertical grid files for PL-geoid-2011, Polish geoid model (#2960)

  + Belgian geoid model hBG18 to grid alternatives (#3044)

 o Add new option to proj_create_crs_to_crs_from_pj method to force +over on
   transformation operations (#2914)

 o Specify CMAKE_INSTALL_RPATH for macOS; use -rpath LDFLAGS for tests (#3009)

 o Implement Geographic3D to Depth/Geog2D+Depth as used by ETRS89 to CD Norway
   depth (#3010)

 o Allow PROJ_LIB paths wrapped with double quotes (#3031)

 o Use external gtest by default when possible (#3035)

 o CMake: make BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON the default even on Windows (#3042)

 o proj.ini: add a 'ca_bundle_path' variable (#3049)


 Bug fixes
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 o Fix extremely long parsing time on hostile PROJ strings (#2968)

 o CMake: fix warning with external googletest (#2980)

 o proj_get_crs_info_list_from_database(): report PJ_TYPE_GEODETIC_CRS for
   IAU_2015 -ocentric geodetic CRS (#3013)

 o peirce_q: rename +type parameter wrongly introduced in 8.2.1 to +shape (#3014)

 o Set more precise error code for parsing errors in proj_create() (#3037)

 o createOperations(): fix transformations from/to a BoundCRS of a
   DerivedGeographicCRS coming from WKT (#3046)

 o Better deal with importing strings like '+init=epsg:XXXX +over' (#3055)

 o Fix importing CRS definition with +proj=peirce_q and +shape different from
   square or diamond (#3057)