9.0.0 Release Notes

Breaking Changes

• Support for the autotools build system has been removed (#3027) See RFC7 for details: https://proj.org/community/rfc/rfc-7.html

Updates

• 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)
• Add new option to proj_create_crs_to_crs_from_pj method to force +over on
  transformation operations (#2914)
• Specify CMAKE_INSTALL_RPATH for macOS; use -rpath LDFLAGS for tests (#3009)
• Implement Geographic3D to Depth/Geog2D+Depth as used by ETRS89 to CD Norway depth (#3010)
• Allow PROJ_LIB paths wrapped with double quotes (#3031)
• Use external gtest by default when possible (#3035)
• CMake: make BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON the default even on Windows (#3042)
• proj.ini: add a ca_bundle_path variable (#3049)

Bug fixes

• Fix extremely long parsing time on hostile PROJ strings (#2968)
• CMake: fix warning with external googletest (#2980)
• proj_get_crs_info_list_from_database(): report PJ_TYPE_GEODETIC_CRS for IAU_2015 -ocentric geodetic CRS (#3013)
• peirce_q: rename +type parameter wrongly introduced in 8.2.1 to +shape (#3014)
• Set more precise error code for parsing errors in proj_create() (#3037)
• createOperations(): fix transformations from/to a BoundCRS of a DerivedGeographicCRS coming from WKT (#3046)
• Better deal with importing strings like +init=epsg:XXXX +over (#3055)
• Fix importing CRS definition with +proj=peirce_q and +shape different from square or diamond (#3057)