<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">For those of you tracking the long term releases (LTR) of QGIS:<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Jürgen E. Fischer <<a href="mailto:jef@norbit.de" class="">jef@norbit.de</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">[Qgis-developer] Announcing the release of QGIS 2.8.3 'Wien'</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">06 August 2015 at 20:40:21 SAST<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="mailto:qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org" class="">qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a>, <a href="mailto:qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org" class="">qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org</a><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class="">QGIS is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System<br class="">that runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows.<br class=""><br class="">We are very pleased to announce the point release of QGIS 2.8.3 'Wien'. Wien<br class="">is German for 'Vienna' - host city to our developer meet up in November 2009<br class="">and again in March 2014.<br class=""><br class="">As point release it contains no new features, but 150 changes to fix bugs (see<br class=""><a href="https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/compare/final-2_8_2...final-2_8_3" class="">https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/compare/final-2_8_2...final-2_8_3</a> for a full<br class="">list).<br class=""><br class="">Even when only fixes are added to software they introduce the possibility of<br class="">new bugs - if you encounter any problems with this release, please file a<br class="">ticket on the QGIS Bug Tracker (<a href="http://hub.qgis.org/" class="">http://hub.qgis.org/</a>). Please consult the<br class="">existing and closed issues there before filing any new ones.<br class=""><br class="">The source code and binaries for Windows, Debian and Ubuntu are already<br class="">available via the large download link on our home page (<a href="http://qgis.org/" class="">http://qgis.org/</a>).<br class="">More packages will follow as soon as the package maintainers finish their work.<br class="">Please revisit the page if your platform is not available yet.<br class=""><br class="">Thanks<br class=""><br class="">We would like to thank the developers, documenters, testers and all the many<br class="">folks out there who volunteer their time and effort (or fund people to do so).<br class=""><br class="">From the QGIS community we hope you enjoy this release! If you wish to donate<br class="">time, money or otherwise get involved in making QGIS more awesome, please<br class="">wander along to <a href="http://qgis.org" class="">http://qgis.org</a> and lend a hand!<br class=""><br class="">Finally we would like to thank our official sponsors for the invaluable<br class="">financial support they provide to this project:<br class=""><br class="">Gold Sponsor:<br class=""> Asia Air Survey, Japan (<a href="http://www.asiaairsurvey.com/" class="">http://www.asiaairsurvey.com/</a>)<br class=""><br class="">Silver Sponsors:<br class=""> Sourcepole AG, Switzerland (<a href="http://www.sourcepole.com/" class="">http://www.sourcepole.com/</a>)<br class=""> Office of Public Works, Ireland, Ireland (<a href="http://www.opw.ie/" class="">http://www.opw.ie/</a>)<br class=""> AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland (<a href="http://www.agh.edu.pl/en" class="">http://www.agh.edu.pl/en</a>)<br class=""> State of Vorarlberg, Austria (<a href="http://www.vorarlberg.at/" class="">http://www.vorarlberg.at/</a>)<br class=""><br class="">Bronze Sponsors:<br class=""> Nicholas Pearson Associates, UK (<a href="http://www.npaconsult.co.uk/" class="">http://www.npaconsult.co.uk/</a>)<br class=""> QGIS Poland, Poland (<a href="http://qgis-polska.org/" class="">http://qgis-polska.org/</a>)<br class=""> <a href="http://www.terrelogiche.com" class="">www.terrelogiche.com</a>, Italy (<a href="http://www.terrelogiche.com" class="">http://www.terrelogiche.com</a>)><br class=""> <a href="http://www.geosynergy.com.au" class="">www.geosynergy.com.au</a>, Australia (<a href="http://www.geosynergy.com.au/" class="">http://www.geosynergy.com.au/</a>)<br class=""> Gaia3D, Inc., South Korea (<a href="http://www.gaia3d.com/" class="">http://www.gaia3d.com/</a>)<br class=""> Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, UK (<a href="http://www.rbwm.gov.uk/" class="">http://www.rbwm.gov.uk/</a>)<br class=""> Chartwell Consultants Ltd., Canada (<a href="http://www.chartwell-consultants.com/" class="">http://www.chartwell-consultants.com/</a>)<br class=""> Trage Wegen vzw, Belgium (<a href="http://www.tragewegen.be/" class="">http://www.tragewegen.be/</a>)<br class=""> GFI - Gesellschaft für Informationstechnologie mbH, Germany (<a href="http://www.gfi-gis.de/" class="">http://www.gfi-gis.de/</a>)<br class=""> GKG Kassel,(Dr.-Ing. Claas Leiner), Germany (<a href="http://www.eschenlaub.de/" class="">http://www.eschenlaub.de/</a>)<br class=""> GIS-Support, Poland (<a href="http://www.gis-support.com/" class="">http://www.gis-support.com/</a>)<br class=""> ADLARES GmbH, Germany (<a href="http://www.adlares.com/" class="">http://www.adlares.com/</a>)<br class=""> <a href="http://www.molitec.it" class="">www.molitec.it</a>, Italy (<a href="http://www.molitec.it/" class="">http://www.molitec.it/</a>)<br class=""> <a href="http://www.argusoft.de" class="">www.argusoft.de</a>, Germany (<a href="http://www.argusoft.de/" class="">http://www.argusoft.de/</a>)<br class=""> Customer Analytics, USA (<a href="http://www.customeranalytics.com/" class="">http://www.customeranalytics.com/</a>)<br class=""> Avioportolano Italia, Italy (<a href="http://www.avioportolano.it/" class="">http://www.avioportolano.it/</a>)<br class=""> Faculty of Geology, Geophysics and Environmental Protection,<br class=""> AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland (<a href="http://www.wggios.agh.edu.pl/en" class="">http://www.wggios.agh.edu.pl/en</a>)<br class=""> Urbsol, Australia (<a href="http://www.urbsol.com.au/" class="">http://www.urbsol.com.au/</a>)<br class=""> MappingGIS, Spain (<a href="http://www.mappinggis.com/" class="">http://www.mappinggis.com/</a>>)<br class=""> GIS3W, Italy (<a href="http://www.gis3w.it/" class="">http://www.gis3w.it/</a>)<br class=""> Lutra Consulting, UK (<a href="http://www.lutraconsulting.co.uk/" class="">http://www.lutraconsulting.co.uk/</a>)<br class=""><br class="">A current list of donors who have made financial contributions large and small<br class="">to the project can be seen on our donors list<br class="">(<a href="http://qgis.org/en/site/about/sponsorship.html#list-of-donors" class="">http://qgis.org/en/site/about/sponsorship.html#list-of-donors</a>).<br class=""><br class="">If you would like to become and official project sponsor, please visit our<br class="">sponsorship page for details. Sponsoring QGIS helps us to fund our six monthly<br class="">developer meetings, maintain project infrastructure and fund bug fixing efforts<br class="">(<a href="http://qgis.org/en/site/about/sponsorship.html#sponsorship" class="">http://qgis.org/en/site/about/sponsorship.html#sponsorship</a>).<br class=""><br class="">QGIS is Free software and you are under no obligation to pay anything to use it<br class="">- in fact we want to encourage people far and wide to use it regardless of what<br class="">your financial or social status is - we believe empowering people with spatial<br class="">decision making tools will result in a better society for all of humanity.<br class=""><br class="">Sponsoring QGIS helps us to fund our six monthly developer meetings, maintain<br class="">project infrastructure and fund bug fixing efforts.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Happy QGISing!<br class=""><br class="">Regards,<br class=""><br class="">The QGIS Team!<br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">Jürgen E. Fischer norBIT GmbH Tel. +49-4931-918175-31<br class="">Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Rheinstraße 13 Fax. +49-4931-918175-50<br class="">Software Engineer D-26506 Norden <a href="http://www.norbit.de" class="">http://www.norbit.de</a><br class="">QGIS release manager (PSC) Germany IRC: jef on FreeNode <br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Qgis-developer mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org" class="">Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org</a><br class="">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer</div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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