6.1.0 Release Notes

May 15th 2019

Updates

Include custom ellipsoid definitions from QGIS (#1137)
Add -k ellipsoid option to projinfo (#1338)
Make cs2cs support 4D coordinates (#1355)
WKT2 parser: update to OGC 18-010r6 (#1360 #1366))
Update internal version of googletest to v1.8.1 (#1361)
Database update: EPSG v9.6.2 (#1462), IGNF v3.0.3, ESRI 10.7.0 and add operation_version column (#1368)
Add proj_normalize_for_visualization() that attempts to apply axis ordering as used by most GIS applications and PROJ <6 (#1387)
Added noop operation (#1391)
Paths set by user take priority over PROJ_LIB for search paths (#1398)
Reduced database size (#1438)
add support for compoundCRS and concatenatedOperation named from their components (#1441)

Have gie return non-zero code when file can't be opened (#1312)
CMake cross-compilation fix (#1316)
Use 1st eccentricity instead of 2nd eccentricity in Molodensky (#1324)
Make sure to include grids when doing Geocentric to CompoundCRS with nadgrids+geoidgrids transformations (#1326)
Handle coordinates outside of bbox better (#1333)
Enable system error messages in command line automatically in builds (#1336)
Make sure to install projinfo man page with CMake (#1347)
Add data dir to pkg-config file proj.pc (#1348)
Fix GCC 9 warning about useless std::move() (#1352)
Grid related fixes (#1369)
Make sure that ISO19111 C++ code sets pj_errno on errors (#1405)
vgridshift: handle longitude wrap-around for grids with 360deg longitude extent (#1429)
proj/cs2cs: validate value of -f parameter to avoid potential crashes (#1434)

Many division by zero and similar bug fixes found by OSS Fuzz.