PROJ 9.5.0 Release Notes

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)

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)