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The latest bug fix releases 2.8.6 and 2.12.3 have been released according to our release road map. For a list of fixed issues see the commits to 2.8 and commits to 2.12, respectively.

Many of you out there may be wondering ‘when are we going to release QGIS 3.0?’. Last year (2015) we started investigating when and how we would release QGIS 3.0. We promised (see Anita Graser’s post about this) that we would convey clearly to our users and developers our plans…

Local governments on the municipality or provincial level often have to deal with DXF/DWG/DGN documents delivered from architects, urban planners or engineering companies. As an example, cadastral or utility offices or companies often have to import CAD documents to either check deliveries about…

Last weekend (November 5th – November 8th, 2015) was a special occasion for the QGIS Project – we convened the 14th our ‘hackfest’ meeting! QGIS hackfests are events where an organiser provides a space for collaboration and members of the community converge and self-organise to…

In the 12th episode of the QGIS podcast, Tim Sutton and Victor Olaya talk about what they have been doing during the latest QGIS developer meeting, present the latest QGIS enhancement proposals (QEPs), chat about the Processing framework and much more! Listen to or download it at…

The QGIS project is growing in size, number of contributors/contributions and code complexity. This introduces challenges for the project, especially for maintaining quality. Maintaining and improving quality is one of the main concerns of the QGIS.ORG board and some core developers. Past and…

Transition The QGIS PSC (Project Steering Committee) is in transition to becoming a Board. We are registering the project as a Swiss ‘Verein‘ (Association) which will be known as QGIS.ORG and will function as a not-for-profit company, serving the interests of the QGIS project. The…

QGIS already supports various different renderers, such as categorized, rule-based, point-displacement, heatmap, etc. This allows for advanced cartographic representations. In addition, there are plugins available, such as “qgis2threejs” or “QGIS Globe”, which allow to view…

The Official QGIS Podcast is back! In this episode we discuss the QGIS User Survey, the release of QGIS 2.12, highlight an interesting QGIS based study and much more! Download the mp3 directly here. Show notes are available: QGIS Podcast Episode 11 Show notes. You can subscribe to the podcast using…

This week we have more great news from Jürgen Fischer, our release manager: “QGIS is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System that runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows. We are very pleased to announce the release of QGIS 2.12 ‘Lyon’. Lyon was the host city to…