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Being part of an open community like QGIS is a unique experience. We get to engage with and become friends with people from many different backgrounds and walks of life. Each person brings their unique flavour to the project and helps create something that is more than just the sum of its parts. The…

It is with a heavy heart that we announce that on 2021-05-31, our friend and colleague Håvard Tveite has passed away at the age of 59 after a period of illness. Håvard was a very active member of the QGIS community, providing valuable input to the documentation, developing numerous plugins, and…

Dear QGIS Users On Friday, 26 March 2021 we will be holding our monthly QGIS Open Day! What is a QGIS Open Day you may be wondering to yourself? It is an initiative to replace the wonderful community meetups we used to hold every six months when times were different. Like our in-person meetings, the…

We are running out of space on our server running https://plugins.qgis.org – a sign of success, given the large number of plugins and plugin versions hosted on the platform. On Thursday 28 January at 9am West European Time, we will bring the server offline for a scheduled upgrade to the…

Dear Community, 2020, as we all know, has been an unusual year. In addition to all the other issues we have all faced, we also had to cancel our beloved hackfests. Since we first started holding bi-annual hackfests in 2009, this will be the first year without an in-person event where our friendly…

As you may have noticed, the next release version will be 3.14 and therefore, we will call it ‘Pi’. Usually our versions are named for community meeting locations and the splash screen shows a map related to this location. For 3.14 we were looking for creative maps that capture the…

Dear QGIS Community We recently held our 2020 QGIS Annual General Meeting. The minutes of this meeting are available for all to view. I would like to welcome our new QGIS Board Chair: Marco Bernasocchi and our new QGIS Board Vice-Chair and QGIS PSC Member, Alessandro Pasotti. In case you are not…

Dear QGIS Community: Due to the uncertainty caused by rapidly unfolding global events related to the COVID-19 virus, we have decided to cancel all in-person QGIS events until further notice. This includes the 25th QGIS Contributor meeting and User Conference that was scheduled to be held this year…

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…

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,…