[PROJ] PROJ 9.2.1RC1 & PROJ-data 1.14RC1

[Kristian Evers]

All,

It’s soon time for another round of PROJ and PROJ-data releases, so in preparation for the final
releases I have uploaded release candidates for both packages.

Download the archives here:

https://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-9.2.1RC1.tar.gz
https://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-9.2.1RC1.zip

https://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-data-1.14RC1.tar.gz
https://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-data-1.14RC1.zip


The PROJ release includes updates to the database contents and bug fixes. See the release notes below.

The PROJ-data release adds the following transformations grids:

- German Hessen grids
- Canadian RGNC15 grids
- Danish grids for a number of older CRS's

Please test the release candidates and report any issues you may find with them. Either here
on the mailing list or on GitHub.

/Kristian

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9.2.1 Release Notes
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 Database updates
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 o Add alias for old ESRI datum/CRS names of EPSG:8353
   S_JTSK_JTSK03_Krovak_East_North (#3678)

 o Pseudo Mercator now supported with IAU CRS's (#3645)

 o Updated to EPSG 10.088 (#3731)

 Bug fixes
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 o Fixed build errors with Cygwin (#3642)

 o PROJ string CRS parser: make sure that PROJ arguments of the rotated
   string are kept in the WKT representation (#3656)

 o Fix slowness on proj_trans() when doing WGS 84 <--> NAD83 conversions (#3661)

 o vgridshift/gridshift: accept hydroid_height as valid band description (#3675)

 o WKT/PROJJSON: import/export accuracy of ConcatenatedOperation (#3676)

 o Coordinate operation factory: count identified concatenated operations as a
   single step (#3677)

 o EngineeringCRS: make proj_create_engineering_crs() set a datum name
   and relax isEquivalentTo() comparisons (#3685)

 o PROJJSON: fix import/export of integer parameter value, and deal with
   interpolation CRS parameters in conversions (#3695)

 o  CMake: avoid imbalanced cmake_policy push/pop if TIFF or CURL dependency
    cannot be found (#3697)
 
 o  proj_create_crs_to_crs(): restore transformation selection behaviour
    of PROJ 9.1 when grids are missing (#3707)

 o  ESRI WKT: improve roundtrip of name and definition for UPS WGS84 CRS (#3720)

 o CRS instanciation from PROJ.4 string: set 'Unknown based on XXXX ellipsoid'
   datum name when instanciating from known +a, +rf (#3727)

 o  cs2cs / proj_create_crs_to_crs(): fix regression with geocentric CRS (#3729)

 o  proj_trans(): set PROJ_ERR_COORD_TRANSFM_NO_OPERATION error when failing
    in ONLY_BEST=YES mode (#3730)

 o  tinshift: raise maximum size of JSON file to 100 MB (#3736)