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Public Service Announcement: Update to the latest point release now

Public Service Announcement: Update to the latest point release now

QGIS users who have adopted the 3.10 version when initially released at the end of October 2019 have likely noticed a sharp drop in reliability. The underlying issues have now been addressed in 3.10.2, all users are advised to update *now*. When QGIS 3.10 was first released in the end of October…

Introducing new QGIS macOS packages

Introducing new QGIS macOS packages

We now have signed packages for macOS. You can find these packages published on the official QGIS download page at http://download.qgis.org. Rationale In addition to being a very powerful and user-friendly open source GIS application, QGIS can be installed on different operating systems: MS Windows,…

Videos from A Coruña

Videos from A Coruña

We’re glad to announce that the recorded presentations from our user conference in A Coruña are now available online on the TIB AV-Portal. Enjoy and thanks to all participants, sponsors and organizers!  

Crowdfunding initiatives in spring 2019

Crowdfunding initiatives in spring 2019

Currently there are a number of ongoing crowdfunding initiatives for improvements in QGIS that need your support: 1. Diagrams in print layouts, atlas and reports: the popular data plotly plugin for interactive, exploratory charts and diagrams should be enhanced to support embedding in print layouts,…

User question of the Month – Feb’19 & answers from Jan

User question of the Month – Feb’19 & answers from Jan

In January, we wanted to learn more about if and how QGIS users contribute back to the project. We received 299 responses from all over the world: 55% of responders have contributed to the project in the past: Responders who stated that they had contributed to QGIS were asked to specify what kind of…

Results of the MacOS bug fixing initiative

Results of the MacOS bug fixing initiative

Thanks to your donations, we were able to hire core developers to focus on solving Mac OS specific issues for QGIS. More than 30 MacOS QGIS users donated a little more than 3000 € for this bug fixing round. After an effort of triage and testing, here is what has been achieved: The map canvas is now…

QGIS 3.2 Bonn is released!

QGIS 3.2 Bonn is released!

We are pleased to announce the release of QGIS 3.2 ‘Bonn’. The city of Bonn was the location of our 16th developer meeting. This is the second release in the 3.x series. It comes with tons of new features (see our visual changelog). Packages and installers for all major platforms are…

QGIS Grant Programme 2018 Results

QGIS Grant Programme 2018 Results

We are extremely pleased to announce the winning proposals for our 2018 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 #3: Call for Grant Proposals 2018 QGIS…

Preparing for the next LTR

Preparing for the next LTR

Dear QGIS users, As you know, QGIS 3 has recently been published. This version introduced big changes in the code structure that, in addition to the new functionalities already exposed, makes our code base more modern and easier to expand and improve on in the future. As a normal by-product of such…

QGIS Annual General Meeting – 2018

QGIS Annual General Meeting – 2018

Dear QGIS Community   We recently held our 2018 QGIS Annual General Meeting. The minutes of this meeting are available for all to view. As I have previously announced, I have decided to step down as chair of the PSC this year, so this post is my last official act as QGIS Chair. Thank you all…