[Geographiclib-announce] GeographicLib 2.5 (released 2024-12-28)

[Charles K. <cha...@gm...>]

Changes between 2.5 (released 2024-12-28) and 2.4 versions:

    * New magnetic models provided

      + World Magnetic Model 2025, wmm2025; this covers the period
        2025-2030.  This is now the model returned by
        MagneticModel::DefaultMagneticName and is default magnetic
        model for MagneticField (replacing wmm2020 which is only valid
        thru the end of 2024).
      + World Magnetic Model High Resolution 2025, wmmhr2025; this is a
        high-resolution version of wmm2025 including terms up to degree
        133 (as opposed to 12 for wmm2025).
      + International Geomagnetic Reference Field (14th generation),
        igrf14, which approximates the main magnetic field of the earth
        for the period 1900-2030.

    * Update CMake's cmake_minimum_required to 3.17.0 (to facilitate
      integration with Qt projects).

    * For GEOGRAPHICLIB_PRECISION > 2, readarray treats doubles as
      approximations to exact decimal constants.

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Charles Karney <ka...@al...>
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