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Updates

Database: update to EPSG v12.049 (#4671)
Database: update ESRI records to ArcGIS Pro 3.6 (#4622)
Support for Canadian vertical references MTM CGVD2013 epoch 1997, 2002, 2010 and
UTM CGVD28 epoch 1997, 2002, 2010 (#4623)
createOperationsCompoundToGeog(): improvement to make "PNG94 / PNGMG94 zone 54 + Kumul
34 height" to "WGS 84 (G2139)" perform vertical transformation (#4624)
Remove hardcoding of 'ETRS89-NOR [EUREF89]' cases and generalize it to other ETRS89-XXX
cases (#4625)
Database: create ESRI aliases for geodetic_datum and geodetic_crs even if they are the
same as EPSG ones (#4626)
Use Emscripten fetch in networkfilemanager (#4627)
ProjectedCRS::identify(): do not return CRS whose ellipsoid is totally different from the input one (#4635)
projinfo added as a library function. This installs a new header: projapps_lib.h. (#4646)
respect CRS_EXTENT_USE=NONE for ConcatenatedOperations (#4652)
Add support for Equidistant Cylindrical ellipsoidal method (EPSG:1028) (#4656)
Update proj_symbol_rename.h (#4657)
WKT1 importer: deal with 'VERT_CS["Geoid 2012A",' (#4659)
Generate correct library name in proj.pc (#4660)
Derived projected CRS related improvements (#4667)
ETRS89-xxx to ETRS89-yyy related improvements (#4668)
createCoordinateOperation(): tune computed accuracy of a concatenated op within ETRS89 (#4670)
createOperationsCompoundToGeog(): discard 2D-only transformations from interpolation
3D CRS to target 3D CRS (#4677)

CRS identification: fix issue when identifying WKT from older EPSG releases with newer
ones where the ETRS89-XXX national datums have been added (#4600)
fix normalizeForVisualization to skip extent checks for axis-swap operations (#4632)
Improvements to TRACE_FETCH debug messages (#4645)
tmerc spherical: fix numeric instability at lat=lat_0 (#4674)