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Official news and announcements from the QGIS project.

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…

Reports from the winning grant proposals 2017

May 8, 2018 by Anita Graser in QGIS Grant Programme

While we are waiting for this year’s grant proposals to come in, it is time to look back at last year’s winning proposals and their results. These are the reports on the work that has been done within the individual projects: QGIS 3D – Martin Dobias Results are included in the QGIS…

Preparing for the next LTR

May 1, 2018 by Paolo Cavallini in Uncategorized

Dear QGIS users, As you know, QGIS 3 has recently been published. This version introduced big changes in the code structure that, in addition to the new functionalities already exposed, makes our code base more modern and easier to expand and improve on in the future. As a normal by-product of such…

QGIS Grants #3: Call for Grant Proposals 2018

April 15, 2018 by Anita Graser in QGIS Grant Programme

Dear QGIS Community Our first two rounds of Grant Proposals were a great success. If you are an early adopter using QGIS 3.0, you can already try out some of the new capabilities that have arrived in QGIS thanks to these grants. We are very pleased to announce the third round of grants is now…

QGIS Annual General Meeting – 2018

April 13, 2018 by Tim Sutton in QGIS Board Uncategorized

Dear QGIS Community We recently held our 2018 QGIS Annual General Meeting. The minutes of this meeting are available for all to view. As I have previously announced, I have decided to step down as chair of the PSC this year, so this post is my last official act as QGIS Chair. Thank you all…