[PROJ] PROJ 9.4.0 & PROJ-data 1.17

[Kristian Evers]

I'm happy to announce the release of PROJ 9.4.0 and PROJ-data 1.17!

The PROJ release includes a number of updates to the both functionality and
the database contents, as well as a few bug fixes. See the release notes
below.

The PROJ-data release includes the following updates:

* New revisions of chartdatum Norway v2023b
* Added fr_ign_RAC23.tif grid for France-Corsica NGF-IGN 1978 to RGF93-2b
* New DVR90 grids added to reflect recent EPSG-changes that now supports all realizations of the Danish height system
* Added Czech geoid model CR-2005

Download the archives here:

https://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-9.4.0.tar.gz
https://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-9.4.0.zip

https://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-data-1.17.tar.gz
https://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-data-1.17.zip

/Kristian

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9.4.0 Release Notes
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Updates
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o Add support for transformations involving coordinate epoch changes
  (PointMotionOperation), specifically for Canadian NAD83(CSRS)(#3884)

o SSL_OPTIONS: set SSL options on Curl library (#3936)

o Add support for unity builds (#3962)

o Added ability to install *.tif if present in data (#3970)

o createOperationsCompoundToGeog(): tune selection logic
  when --grid-check known_available is specified (#3990)

o Increase CMake minimum version from 3.9 to 3.16 (#3997)

o CMake: use FetchContent to get googletest-1.12.1 (#4006)

o CMake: Replace custom FindSqlite3 with FindSQLite3 built-in (#4007)

o tpeqd: use numerically stable formula for computing the central angle
  from (phi_1, lam_1) to (phi_2, lam_2) (#4009)

o Move content of proj_experimental.h to proj.h (#4019)

o Add +proj=mod_krovak projection method for Modified Krovak that
  applies to S-JTSK/05 in the Czech Republic (#4021)

o PROJString formatter optimizer: simplify pipelines doing
  [Modified]Krovak (South West) <--> [Modified]Krovak (East North)
  by just doing an axis swap (#4034)

o +proj=gridshift: enhance to support grids referenced in projected CRS,
  and with easting_offset/northing_offset corrections (#4038)

o Tune concatenated operation instanciation, reference CR2005 geoid for
  Czechia and add (disabled by default) records for Czechia S-JTSK/05 based
  transformations (#4044)

o Database: update to EPSG v11.004 (#4062)

Bug fixes
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o Fix missing symbols at link time for Windows target in Visual Studio (#3984)

o Improve error message in axisswap (#3975)

o Avoid convergence errors in +proj=gridshift when using biquadratic
   interpolation (#3985)