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Results of the MacOS bug fixing initiative

November 19, 2018 by Andreas Neumann in Uncategorized

Thanks to your donations, we were able to hire core developers to focus on solving Mac OS specific issues for QGIS. More than 30 MacOS QGIS users donated a little more than 3000 € for this bug fixing round. After an effort of triage and testing, here is what has been achieved: The map canvas is now…

User question of the Month – Nov’18

November 11, 2018 by Anita Graser in User question of the month

QGIS 2.18 is the third LTR since we started this effort back in 2015 and next year will see the first LTR of QGIS 3. On this occasion, we want to learn more about our users and which versions of QGIS they use. Therefore, we invite you to our QGIS user question of the month.

Report back on the 20th QGIS Hackfest in Zanzibar

November 5, 2018 by Tim Sutton in QGIS Hackfest

This post summarizes personal reports of community members who attended the 20th Hackfest in Stone Town, Zanzibar the week before the FOSS4G in Dar Es Salaam. Report from Matteo Ghetta QGIS developers spent 3 days in the beautiful island of Zanzibar were they worked on bug fixing,…

QGIS 3.4 Madeira is released!

October 28, 2018 by Anita Graser in QGIS Release Announcements

We are pleased to announce the release of QGIS 3.4 ‘Madeira’! Madeira was the location of our developer meeting in February 2018. Windows installers and Ubuntu/debian binaries are already out, and all the packagers are actively preparing packages for the other operating systems.…

MacOS specific bug fixing campaign

September 12, 2018 by Andreas Neumann in QGIS Funding

If you are a MacOS QGIS user, you are probably bothered by some MacOS specific bugs. These are due to the fact that we have fewer QGIS developers working on the MacOS platform and there are additional MacOS specific issues in the underlying qt5 library. Nevertheless, we found a developer, Denis…

QGIS Server certified as official OGC reference implementation

June 27, 2018 by Anita Graser in QGIS Server

We are very excited to announce that QGIS Server has been successfully certified as a compliant WMS 1.3 server against the OGC certification platform, and moreover, it is even considered as a reference implementation now! This is the first step on our roadmap of having a fast, compliant and bullet…

QGIS 3.2 Bonn is released!

June 24, 2018 by Anita Graser in QGIS Release Announcements Uncategorized

We are pleased to announce the release of QGIS 3.2 ‘Bonn’. The city of Bonn was the location of our 16th developer meeting. This is the second release in the 3.x series. It comes with tons of new features (see our visual changelog). Packages and installers for all major platforms are…

QGIS Grant Programme 2018 Results

June 22, 2018 by Anita Graser in QGIS Grant Programme Uncategorized

We are extremely pleased to announce the winning proposals for our 2018 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 #3: Call for Grant Proposals 2018 QGIS…

QGIS User Conference 2018

June 3, 2018 by Tim Sutton in QGIS User Conference

This year’s QGIS User Conference will be embedded within the FOSS4G conference. That means that you should refer to the FOSS4G web site for all registration and event details with the exception of the QGIS Hackfest (22-26 August) which follows our normal organisation procedure on the QGIS…

New PyQGIS documentation

May 20, 2018 by Anita Graser in QGIS Documentation

We are proud to announce our new dedicated documentation of the QGIS Python API (also called PyQGIS) which is now available at https://qgis.org/pyqgis: While the QGIS API has long been documented, Python developers in the past had to work with the general C++ documentation that wasn’t always…