add release notes and improve error message

Author: coroa

RELEASE_NOTES.rst

@@ -21,7 +21,13 @@ Upcoming Release
 * Add ``aggregate_time={"sum", "mean", None}`` to ``convert_and_aggregate`` for temporal 
   aggregation with and without spatial aggregation, and deprecate ``capacity_factor``/``capacity_factor_timeseries`` 
   in favor of it
-   
+
+**Bug fixes**
+
+* Fix regression when ``ExclusionContainer`` encounters a raster with an invalid CRS
+  (https://github.com/PyPSA/atlite/pull/500).
+
+
 `v0.5.0 <https://github.com/PyPSA/atlite/releases/tag/v0.5.0>`__ (13th March 2026)
 =======================================================================================   
 

atlite/gis.py

@@ -484,8 +484,8 @@ def open_files(self):
                     raster._crs = CRS(d["crs"])
                 else:
                     raise ValueError(
-                        f"CRS of {raster} must be either geographic or projected, "
-                        "please provide it manually."
+                        f"CRS of {raster} is neither geographic nor projected, "
+                        f"please provide it manually:\n{raster.crs}"
                     )
             d["raster"] = raster