[OSGeo-Announce] PROJ 9.6.2 is released

https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/proj-9-6-2-is-released/

PROJ 9.6.2 is released

On behalf of the PROJ team, we are happy to announce the release of PROJ 9.6.2

The PROJ release includes updates to the the database contents, as well as a number of bug fixes. See the release notes below.

Download the archives here:

http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-9.6.2.tar.gz
http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-9.6.2.zip

Updates- Update EPSG to 12.013

Bug Fixes- Database: change ESRI deprecated records back to their deprecated state (#4519)

  • ProjectedCRS::identify(): more robust identification of old ESRI names using _IntlFeet (#4518)
  • Fix issue related to D_Unknown_based_on_WGS_84_ellipsoid datum name (#4514)
  • proj_trans_bounds(): sample points within the source grid to avoid missing extent such as world-wide coverage from EPSG:4326 to ESRI:54099 (Spilhaus) (#4513)
  • proj_trans_bounds(): avoid erroring out, in some cases, when PJ* object is directly constructed from a PROJ pipeline (#4512)