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Laax, Switzerland, 10 October 2026. More than 420 people from over 30 countries and five continents gathered in Laax from 4 to 9 October for the QGIS User Conference 2026, the largest event ever held on Crap Sogn Gion at 2222 metres above sea level. Two conference days at the Galaaxy venue carried…

Dear QGIS community We know that many of you were waiting patiently for the next LTR release based on QGIS 4.x and Qt6. However, there are still a number of issues with the 4.x builds which leave us hesitant to assign LTR status to a 4.2.x release as originally planned. To address this, we will be…

We are preparing version v4.0.0 of the QGIS Plugins Website (https://plugins.qgis.org), a planned milestone release scheduled for 13 July 2026. Below is a summary of what is coming and how it may affect plugin developers, so you can review ahead of time. Highlights This will be our first major…

We are extremely pleased to announce the nine funded proposals for our 2026 QGIS.ORG grant programme. Funding for the programme was sourced by you, our project donors and sponsors! Note: For more context surrounding our grant programme, please see: QGIS Grants #11: Call for Grant Proposals 2026…

We want to share some updates we have made on the QGIS Plugin Repository. In January 2026 we shared QEP 409. The proposal seeks to improve the general working practices with QGIS plugins, adding some optional and some mandatory checks to every plugin that gets published in the QGIS plugin repo. This…

QGIS.org is pleased to announce that we will be using some of the funding that is donated to us by our users and sustaining members to fund a dedicated administrative role for the project.  Principle duties: Support the PSC in activities such as organisation of the annual QGIS user conference,…

QGIS 4.0 is out. After years of work by hundreds of volunteers and organisations around the world (migrating to Qt6, reworking the codebase, shipping over 100 new features on top) we have a platform that will serve the community for the next decade. That’s worth celebrating. It’s also a…

It is with great pleasure that we would like to welcome COSS as our latest flagship sustaining member! The COSS National QGIS collaboration launched in Finland to safeguard the sustainability of critical geospatial technology. About COSS COSS aims to ensure the sustainability of the open source QGIS…

Dear QGIS Community, We are very pleased to announce that this year’s round of grants is now available. The call is open to anybody who wants to make a contribution to QGIS funded by our grant fund, subject to the call conditions outlined in the application form. This year’s budget is €40k and…

With the QGIS Grant Programme 2025, we were able to support 6 enhancement proposals that improve the QGIS project. The following reports summarize the work performed: QEP 332: Port SQL Query History to Browser — Report This enhancement has ported the “history” component of the DB…