We are very pleased to simultaneously announce the releases of QGIS 1.0.2 (stable release) and QGIS 1.1.0 (unstable release).

Our 1.0.x 'stable' release series are part of our effort to provide a stable, unchanging, long term supported environment. Each minor release in our stable series contains only bug fixes and no new features. For a list of bugs that were closed in the 1.0.2 release, please see the 1.0.2 release milestone.

Our 'unstable' release series are provided to offer users a chance to try out new features as they make their way into the code base. We will not support these releases over a long term and they are aimed more for those who value new features over stability.

Binary and source code packages are available at http://qgis.org

Along with the release of QGIS 1.1.0, the QGIS Community Team is also extremely pleased to announce the immediate availability of the QGIS Users' Guide version 1.1. The guide can be downloaded from http://www.qgis.org/en/documentation/manuals.html.

Read on for the QGIS 1.1.0 changelog...

As Gary announced in his last post, I'm one of the students accepted for Google's Summer of Code program. During the summer I'm going to work on better label placement capabilities. Since the application form is not publicly available, I put here the interesting part that briefly describes the main areas I'm going to address. If you have any suggestions, please leave me a note in the comments.

Two QGIS related GSOC 2009 projects have been approved:

1. Label placement for Quantum GIS - Martin Dobias
2. OssimPlanet integration in Grass and Qgis - Massimo Di Stefano

Congratulations to Martin and Massimo. Other projects approved under the OSGeo umbrella can be found on the GSOC website at:

My previous post appears to have caused confusion for some. Be assured that the post was an April Fools joke.

QGIS is Free and Open Source Software and will remain so. There have been no changes to the project management, license, or philosophy. The development team is hard at work and preparing for a new release in the near future.

Due to long-standing issues and the inability to control and manage the source code, QGIS is going closed source effective today, 2009-04-01. The software is no longer licensed as free software but rather is to be managed by a consortium made up of several key developers.

Thank you to our sponsors and contributors

The QGIS 2009 hackfest was a great success in a large part due to the various people and institutions that aided us.

We would firstly like to give our heartfelt thanks to Otto Dassau who organised the event and ran around making sure that everything ran smoothly for the event, and to thank Larissa Junek who kept 10 hungry hackers plied with delicious apple pie and cake.

QGIS Hackfest Interviews:

We took a few minutes to introduce ourselves at the hackfest 2009:

Werner Macho (english)

Otto Dassau (german)

Saturday 21 March, late evening: Hackfest Day 3

Ok not much blogging today - but we put up some spiffy videos of ourselves.

Juergen and Martin have been pouring over the Postgres provider code to try to improve the performace.

Martin has been working on the new table integration.

Carson QgsGeometry and the QGIS Analysis library, writing unit tests and porting java analysis stuff to C++.

Werner has got the German translation of Stable branch to 100%. He also did his first steps in C++ to fix a bug in the display of the About box on non Mac platforms.

Well I've finally released my graph colouring plugin, 'topocolour'.

Are you bored with Qgis' default of loading a polygon map and setting all the polygons the same colour? Well why not try 'TopoColour'! It combines the prettiness of ColorBrewer palettes with graph theory to colour your polygons so that no adjacent polygons are the same colour. In just two easy steps!

So I have been playing with the new WebKit support in QT 4.4+ via the python bindings in PyQt. Pretty cool stuff and I think it will have quite a bit of potential within QGIS in the future.