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Official news and announcements from the QGIS project.

In memory of Martin Isenburg

September 14, 2021 by Marco Bernasocchi in Uncategorized

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…

QGIS 3.20 Odense is released!

June 22, 2021 by Anita Graser in QGIS Release Announcements

We are pleased to announce the release of QGIS 3.20 ‘Odense’! Installers for all supported operating systems are already out. QGIS 3.20 comes with tons of new features, as you can see in our visual changelog. The Danish user group also provides additional background information about…

Håvard Tveite has passed away

June 10, 2021 by Anita Graser in Uncategorized

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…

QGIS Grant Programme 2021 Results

May 4, 2021 by Anita Graser in QGIS Grant Programme

We are extremely pleased to announce the 8 winning proposals for our 2021 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 #6: Call for Grant Proposals…

Reports from the winning grant proposals 2020

April 3, 2021 by Anita Graser in QGIS Grant Programme

With the QGIS Grant Programme 2020, we were able to support ten proposals that were aimed to improve the QGIS project, including software, infrastructure, and documentation. The following reports summarize the work performed in the proposals. We’ll update this blog post as more reports come…

QGIS Open Day – 26 March 2021

March 25, 2021 by Tim Sutton in Uncategorized

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…

QGIS 3.18 Zürich is released!

February 23, 2021 by Anita Graser in QGIS Release Announcements

We are pleased to announce the release of QGIS 3.18 ‘Zürich’! Installers for all supported operating systems are already out. QGIS 3.18 comes with tons of new features, as you can see in our visual changelog. Additionally, QGIS 3.16 ‘Hannover’ has now replaced 3.10 as LTR. If…

QGIS Grants #6: Call for Grant Proposals 2021

February 21, 2021 by Anita Graser in QGIS Grant Programme

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 funded contribution to QGIS, subject to the call conditions outlined in the application form. The deadline for this round is 21st March 2021. For…

QGIS Open Day – 26 Feb 2021

February 19, 2021 by Tim Sutton in QGIS Hackfest

On Friday, 26 February 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 event is…

Scheduled maintenance for plugins repository

January 27, 2021 by Tim Sutton in Uncategorized

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…