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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…

QGIS Pi Mapping Contest Results

June 13, 2020 by Anita Graser in Uncategorized

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…

QGIS Server and OGC API Features

May 13, 2020 by Andreas Neumann in QGIS Server

Based on text and information from Paul Blottiere and Alessandro Pasotti (both QCooperative) QGIS Server implements a number of OGC services, such as WMS, WFS, WCS or WMTS and extends these services where useful. Thanks to the efforts of a number of QGIS Server developers and companies, QGIS 3.10…

Greetings from your new QGIS project Chair

May 13, 2020 by Marco Bernasocchi in QGIS Board

Dear community, First of all, I would like to thank Paolo for his work during the last two years as Chair and for the years before that, and years to come in his role as PSC member. I’m looking forward to keeping up the good work with him. Secondly, I would like to thank all the community voting…

QGIS Annual General Meeting – 2020

May 6, 2020 by Paolo Cavallini in QGIS Board Uncategorized

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…