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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…

QGIS 3.16 Hannover is released!

October 27, 2020 by Anita Graser in QGIS Release Announcements

We are pleased to announce the release of QGIS 3.16 ‘Hannover’! Installers for all supported operating systems are already out. QGIS 3.16 comes with tons of new features, as you can see in our visual changelog. We would like to thank the developers, documenters, testers and all the many…

QGIS Phasing out 32-bit support on Windows

October 15, 2020 by Marco Bernasocchi in QGIS Board

QGIS will drop 32-bit support on Windows after the QGIS 3.16 release when we update our Qt dependencies to Qt 5.15. The Plan QGIS will drop 32-bit Windows support in the next few months. QGIS 3.16 LTR will still be available for 32-bit systems. 32-bit support will be dropped during the process of…

Anita Graser receives the 2020 Sol Katz Award

September 20, 2020 by Marco Bernasocchi in QGIS Board

It is with great pleasure that on behalf of the PSC and the whole QGIS community I’d like to extend the most heartfelt congratulations to Anita for receiving the Sol Katz Award. Anita has been a pillar of the QGIS community since she joined her first hackfest in Vienna in 2009. Since then she has…

Say hello to the QHackFriday

August 21, 2020 by Marco Bernasocchi in Uncategorized

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…

QGIS Grant Programme 2020 Results

July 10, 2020 by Anita Graser in QGIS Grant Programme

We are extremely pleased to announce the winning proposals for our 2020 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 #5: Call for Grant Proposals 2020. The…

QGIS 3.14 Pi is released!

June 25, 2020 by Anita Graser in QGIS Release Announcements

We are pleased to announce the release of QGIS 3.14 ‘Pi’! Installers for all supported operating systems are already out. QGIS 3.14 comes with tons of new features, as you can see in our visual changelog. We would like to thank the developers, documenters, testers and all the many folks…