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The wait is over! We are pleased to announce the new major release of QGIS 4.0. Installers for Windows, Linux, and Mac are already out. What’s new? On the surface, existing users should expect to engage with a QGIS experience familiar to what they have come to know and love from previous…

📅 Call for Papers The call for papers is now open! We welcome proposals for talks and workshops from all levels of expertise, end users, technical developers, academics, and community contributors alike. Deadline: 12 April 2026 at 23:59 (Europe/Zurich) 👉 Submit your proposal:…

It’s our pleasure to share our first Documentation and Infrastructure Report with highlights ranging across documentation, web infrastructure, and community-facing work. While this blog post provides a brief summary and team introduction, you can find the full report here. Throughout the year,…

We are happy to announce that the QGIS User Conference 2026 will take place on 5–6 October 2026 in Laax, in the heart of the Swiss Alps. Visit the conference website to find out all details. The conference will be hosted at Crap Sogn Gion, at 2,222 metres above sea level, offering a unique setting…

We’re happy to announce that the next QGIS User Conference will take place in Switzerland in October 2026. Please mark the following dates in your calendar: 4 October 2026 – Informal active outdoor pre-event day 5–6 October 2026 – QGIS User Conference 7 October 2026 – Workshops 7–9 (10) October 2026…

Meet Hefni Azzahra – our new QGIS documentation writer, joining us from Indonesia! Hefni holds a Bachelor’s degree in Geodetic Engineering and brings a strong background in geospatial science and mapping to the QGIS project. She’s passionate about GIS and has a curious mind that loves exploring new…

Following the earlier announcement that QGIS is moving to Qt 6 and launching QGIS 4.0, we want to share an important update about the QGIS 4.x roadmap. After extensive discussion on the developer mailing list, the QGIS community has agreed to adjust the 4.x release schedule to ensure a smooth…

This is a guest post by Guilhem Allaman. Mid-June, the French-speaking QGIS Users Meeting was held in Avignon, Southern France – a city often described as “the City of the Popes“, thanks to the Popes’ Palace, the city’s number one attraction. Not far from the…

In the past month of April, there were 28 new plugins published in the QGIS plugin repository. Here follows the quick overview in reverse chronological order. If any of the names or short descriptions catches your attention, you can find the direct link to the plugin page in the table below: Spatial…

We are extremely pleased to announce the six funded proposals for our 2025 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 #10: Call for Grant Proposals 2025 These…