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Public Service Announcement: Update to the latest point release now

January 24, 2020 by Anita Graser in Uncategorized

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…

Reports from the winning grant proposals 2018

January 6, 2020 by Anita Graser in QGIS Grant Programme

With the QGIS Grant Programme 2018, we were able to support seven proposals that were aimed to improve the QGIS project, including software, infrastructure, and documentation. These are the reports on the work that has been done within the individual projects: Increased stability for Processing GUI…

QGIS Server is ready for the new OGC API for Features protocol.

November 26, 2019 by Andreas Neumann in QGIS Server

The new OGC API for Features (OAPIF) (also formerly known as WFS3) is one of the first protocols of the new generation of OGC web services and we are happy to announce that QGIS Server is ready to serve data following the specifications of this new protocol. A lot of work has been going on during…

QGIS 3.10 A Coruña is released!

November 2, 2019 by Anita Graser in QGIS Release Announcements

We are pleased to announce the release of QGIS 3.10 ‘A Coruña’! A Coruña was the location of our developer meeting and user conference in March 2019. Installers for all supported operating systems are already out. QGIS 3.10 comes with tons of new features, as you can see in our visual…

Results of the user questionnaire from Sep’19

October 28, 2019 by Anita Graser in User question of the month

Last month’s user question focused on QGIS documentation. More specifically, we asked how you learn how to use QGIS. And many of you answered our call. Indeed we collected 824 responses over a period of two weeks: The answers to the first question show that the top three first sources of…

User question of the Month – Sep’19

September 28, 2019 by Anita Graser in User question of the month

After the summer break, we’re back with a new user question. This month, we want to focus on documentation. Specifically, we’d like to know how you learn how to use QGIS. The survey is available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Ukrainian, and Indonesian. If you want to help us…

Introducing new QGIS macOS packages

July 29, 2019 by Tim Sutton in Uncategorized

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,…

QGIS 3.8 Zanzibar is released!

July 23, 2019 by Anita Graser in QGIS Release Announcements

We are pleased to announce the release of QGIS 3.8 ‘Zanzibar’! Zanzibar was the location of our developer meeting before the international FOSS4G 2018 conference in Dar Es Salaam. Installers for all supported operating systems are already out. QGIS 3.8 comes with tons of new…

QGIS Grant Programme 2019 Results

June 30, 2019 by Anita Graser in QGIS Grant Programme

We are extremely pleased to announce the winning proposals for our 2019 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 #4: Call for Grant Proposals 2019. The…

QGIS Grants #4: Call for Grant Proposals 2019

May 6, 2019 by Anita Graser in QGIS Grant Programme

Dear QGIS Community Our first three rounds of Grant Proposals were a great success. We are very pleased to announce the fourth round of grants is now available to QGIS contributors. Based on community feedback, this year, we will not accept proposals for the development of new features. Instead…