[PROJ] PROJ 9.5.0RC1 & PROJ-data 1.19RC1

[Kristian Evers]

PSC members, 

No issues have been reported with either of the release candidates so I’ll
put their promotion to final releases up for a vote. 

I’ll start with my +1.

/Kristian

> On 9 Sep 2024, at 14.01, Kristian Evers <kristianevers at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> All,
> 
> in preparation for a new round of PROJ and PROJ-data release I have uploaded release candidates for both packages.
> 
> Download the archives here: 
> 
> https://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-9.5.0RC1.tar.gz
> https://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-9.5.0RC1.zip
> 
> https://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-data-1.19RC1.tar.gz
> https://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-data-1.19RC1.zip
> 
> The PROJ release includes various updates and bug fixes. See the release notes below.
> 
> The PROJ-data release is updated with grids related to the Greenlandic GLMSL and GLLAT.
> 
> Please test the release candidates and report any issues you may find with them.
> Either here on the mailing list or on GitHub.
> 
> /Kristian
> 
> 
> ## 9.5.0
> 
> ### Updates
> 
> * Database: add constraint for unicity of CRS and operation names (#4071)
> 
> * Make a few more functions that accept a `PJ*` to actually acccept a `const PJ*` (#4074)
> 
> * Database: Increase consistency in trigger checks (#4080)
> 
> * Speed-up `+proj=cart +inv` (#4087)
> 
> * Added EPSG:9656 "Cartesian Grid Offsets" operation method, and imported related records (#4094)
> 
> * Add a `WKTParser::grammarErrorList()` method so that `proj_create_from_wkt()` can behave as documented (#4108)
> 
> * `CRS::stripVerticalComponent()`: Redirect it to `demoteTo2D(std::string(), nullptr)` (#4127)
> 
> * Add `proj_context_set_user_writable_directory()` to public API (#4144)
> 
> * CMake: for Windows builds, defaults PROJ DLL to be just `proj_${PROJ_MAJOR_VERSION}.dll` (#4167)
> 
> * Add `toWGS84AutocorrectWrongValues()` method and use it in PROJ.4 and WKT1 CRS import (#4172)
> 
> * WKT import: add support for Oracle WKT "Albers_Conical_Equal_Area" spelling (#4181)
> 
> * Limit number of C++ exceptions thrown & caught internally (#4183)
> 
> * Database: update to EPSG 11.016 (#4241)
> 
> * CMake: add option `EMBED_PROJ_DATA_PATH` (#4207)
> 
> * Add SEA Inverse projection (#4211)
> 
> * projinfo: Add 2 args equivalent to usage of `-s` and `-t` (#4218)
> 
> * CMake: add TESTING_USE_NETWORK configure option (#4220)
> 
> * Add `PROJ_ERR_COORD_TRANSFM_MISSING_TIME` and `proj_coordoperation_requires_per_coordinate_input_time()` (#4221)
> 
> * Add new Conversion "Local Orthographic" (#4228, #4229)
> 
> * Add data/ITRF2020 with ITRF2020 to ITRFother, and ITRF2020 plate motion models (#4235)
> 
> ### Bug Fixes
> 
> * Fix `imoll` and `imoll_o` zone calculations to correct inverse transformations near the "seams" (#4159)
> 
> * Fix wrong EPSG conversion code for UTM south (#4166)
> 
> * BoundCRS::exportToPROJ(): handle case of NADCON conus grid (#4168)
> 
> * `+proj=gridshift`: make projected grids work with `PROJ_NETWORK=ON` (#4174)
> 
> * `createOperations()`: make it work when transforming from/to a CompoundCRS with a DerivedVerticalCRS with ellipsoidal height (#4176)
> 
> * Support default context as `nullptr` in `CoordinateTransformer` (#4177)
> 
> * cct: emit error message and return error code when not being able to open input file (#4200)
> 
> * Fix race condition surrounding DB reopening during fork (#4231)
> 
> * `GeographicBoundingBox::create()`: accept degenerate bounding box reduced to a point or a line (#4237)
> 
> * `createOperation()`: tune so that ITRF2000->ETRS89 does not return only NKG grid based operations but also time-dependent Helmert (#4244)
> 
>