[PROJ] PROJ 9.7.1RC1 & PROJ-data 1.24RC1

[Kristian Evers]

PSC members,

I have received no reports of problems with the release candidates. You know the drill, I need some +1's ones to proceed with the final releases on Monday.

I'll start with my own: +1.

/Kristian


On Tuesday, November 25th, 2025 at 11:07, Kristian Evers <kristian at evers.dev> wrote:

> 
> 
> Everyone,
> 
> It’s once again time for a round of releases of the PROJ and PROJ-data packages. I’ve prepared
> release candidates for both, which can be downloaded from
> 
> https://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-9.7.1RC1.tar.gz
> https://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-9.7.1RC1.zip
> 
> https://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-data-1.24RC1.tar.gz
> https://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-data-1.24RC1.zip
> 
> The PROJ-data release adds a grids for the
> 
> * Czech S-JTSK / Krovak East North to S-JTSK/05 / Modified Krovak East North transformation
> * Norwegian vertical transformation from NN54 to NN2000 height
> * French RGM23 to IGN 2023 Mayotte height transformation
> 
> Details for the PROJ release can be found below.
> 
> Please report any issues you may find with the release candidates, either here
> on the mailing list or in issues on GitHub.
> 
> /Kristian
> 
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> 
> # PROJ Release Notes
> 
> ## 9.7.1
> 
> ### Updates
> 
> * Enable transformations_czechia.sql (#4578)
> 
> * Update to EPSG v12.029 (#4586)
> 
> ### Bug Fixes
> 
> * `createOperations()`: fix compound to compound when vertical CRS definition is equivalent but not strictly identical (#4579)
> 
> * `createOperations()`: fix compound to compound when horizontal CRS of … (#4582)
> 
> * `projinfo`: make it honour `-k crs` (#4592)
> 
> * `proj_clone()`: fix insufficient propagation of `FORCE_OVER=YES` (#4595)
> 
> * `BoundCRS::identify`: fix creation of an invalid BoundCRS (that can cause later crashes) for CRS based on 'NTF (Paris)' (#4601)
> 
> * WKT/PROJJSON datum ensemble import: allow no members (#4615)