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<div style="direction:ltr; font-family:Tahoma; color:#000000; font-size:10pt">This
<b>Long Term Release version of QGIS</b> <a href="http://qgis.org/en/site/" target="_blank">
http://qgis.org/en/site/</a> might be of specific interest to enterprises and organizations that do not want to deal with updating user skills, training materials etc. more than once per year. Details below.
<br>
<br>
It is a pleasure to see the rapid growth of QGIS starting from humble beginnings (Version 1.0 was released in January 2009 ) it has grown rapidly to be now
<b>the world's most widely used Geographic Information System</b> powering millions of users in governments, academia and industry worldwide. So imagine what will be the future of GIS in 2019 with millions more users benefiting from this amazing resource and
having strategy for Long Term Release versions of QGIS is very helpful for enterprises and organizations. We believe empowering people with spatial decision making tools will result in a better society for all of humanity. Thanks again to the whole QGIS
Team for making this amazing software available for everyone to use for free and the kind sponsors, developers, translators and the amazing QGIS community who make this possible.<br>
<br>
Best wishes,<br>
<br>
Suchith Anand<br>
<a href="http://www.geoforall.org/" target="_blank">http://www.geoforall.org/</a>
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________________________________________<br>
From: Qgis-developer [qgis-developer-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] on behalf of Jürgen E. Fischer [jef@norbit.de]<br>
Sent: Monday, February 29, 2016 7:27 PM<br>
To: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org; qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org<br>
Subject: [Qgis-developer] Announcing the release of QGIS 2.14 'Essen'<br>
<br>
QGIS is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System that runs on<br>
Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows.<br>
<br>
We are very pleased to announce the release of QGIS 2.14 'Essen'. Essen was<br>
the host city to our developer meet ups in October 2012 and 2014.<br>
<br>
Long Term Release<br>
<br>
This is a special release since it is designated an 'LTR' (Long Term Release).<br>
LTR releases will be supported with backported bug fixes for one year, and will<br>
be in permanent feature freeze (i.e. no new features will be added, only bug<br>
fixes and trivial updates). Note that we are in discussion to extend the term<br>
of our LTR releases to two years, but for technical reasons we will not do this<br>
until QGIS 3.2.<br>
<br>
The purpose of LTR releases is to provide a stable and less frequently changing<br>
platform for enterprises and organizations that do not want to deal with<br>
updating user skills, training materials etc. more than once per year. The<br>
success of the LTR is very much down to you, our beloved users - we need your<br>
support to help funding bug fixes and making sure in your support contracts<br>
with support providers specify that any bug fixes done on your behalf are<br>
applied to the LTR branch as well as our normal development branch.<br>
<br>
If an LTR is important to you, please consider also directly supporting the<br>
QGIS project, or encourage your commercial provider to use LTR as a basis for<br>
your enterprise solution so that everyone may benefit from a stable platform<br>
that is being continuously improved and refined. Note that for users and<br>
organizations that like to live on the frontier, our regular four monthly<br>
releases will continue unabated.<br>
<br>
New Features in QGIS 2.14 'Essen'<br>
<br>
If you are upgrading from QGIS 2.8 (our previous LTR version) you will find a<br>
great many new features in this release.<br>
(http://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/visualchangelog214/)<br>
<br>
We encourage you to peruse the changelogs for the intermediate non LTR 2.10 and<br>
2.12 releases as this QGIS 2.14 includes all features published in those<br>
releases too.<br>
(http://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/visualchangelog212/)<br>
(http://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/visualchangelog210/)<br>
<br>
Note that 2.14 first enters the regular package repositories and will not<br>
immediately replace 2.8 in the LTR package repositories. That will happen when<br>
2.16 is released.<br>
<br>
Whenever new features are added to software they introduce the possibility of<br>
new bugs - if you encounter any problems with this release, please file a<br>
ticket on the QGIS Bug Tracker.<br>
(http://hub.qgis.org)<br>
<br>
The source code and binaries for Windows, Debian and Ubuntu are already<br>
available via the large download link on our home page: http://qgis.org. More<br>
packages will follow as soon as the package maintainers finish their work.<br>
Please revisit the page if your platform is not available yet.<br>
<br>
<br>
Thanks<br>
<br>
We would like to thank the developers, documenters, testers and all the many<br>
folks out there who volunteer their time and effort (or fund people to do so).<br>
>From the QGIS community we hope you enjoy this release! If you wish to donate<br>
time, money or otherwise get involved in making QGIS more awesome, please<br>
wander along to qgis.org and lend a hand!<br>
<br>
QGIS is supported by donors and sponsors. A current list of donors who have<br>
made financial contributions large and small to the project can be seen on our<br>
donors list. If you would like to become and official project sponsor, please<br>
visit our sponsorship page for details.<br>
( http://qgis.org/en/site/about/sponsorship.html )<br>
<br>
Current Sponsors of QGIS:<br>
<br>
SILVER AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland<br>
SILVER Sourcepole AG, Switzerland<br>
SILVER GAIA mbH, Germany<br>
SILVER Office of Public Works, Flood Risk Management and Data Management<br>
Section, Ireland<br>
SILVER Land Vorarlberg, Austria<br>
BRONZE 2D3D.GIS, France<br>
BRONZE Cawdor Forestry, United Kingdom<br>
BRONZE ChameleonJohn, United States<br>
BRONZE Chartwell Consultants Ltd.<br>
BRONZE Dr. Kerth + Lampe Geo-Infometric GmbH, Germany<br>
BRONZE Gaia3D, Inc., South Korea<br>
BRONZE GeoSynergy, Australia<br>
BRONZE GFI - Gesellschaft für Informationstechnologie mbH, Germany<br>
BRONZE GKG Kassel, (Dr.-Ing. Claas Leiner), Germany<br>
BRONZE HostingFacts.com, Estonia<br>
BRONZE Lutra Consulting, United Kingdom<br>
BRONZE MappingGIS, Spain<br>
BRONZE Nicholas Pearson Associates, United Kingdom<br>
BRONZE QGIS Polska, Poland<br>
BRONZE Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, United Kingdom<br>
BRONZE TerreLogiche, Italy<br>
BRONZE Trage Wegen vzw, Belgium<br>
BRONZE Urbsol, Australia<br>
BRONZE WhereGroup GmbH & Co. KG, Germany<br>
<br>
Sponsoring QGIS helps us to fund our six monthly developer meetings, maintain<br>
project infrastructure and fund bug fixing efforts. A complete list of current<br>
sponsors is provided below - our very great thank you to all of our sponsors!<br>
<br>
QGIS is Free software and you are under no obligation to pay anything to use it<br>
- in fact we want to encourage people far and wide to use it regardless of what<br>
your financial or social status is - we believe empowering people with spatial<br>
decision making tools will result in a better society for all of humanity. If<br>
you are able to support QGIS, you can donate.<br>
(http://qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/donations.html)<br>
<br>
<br>
Happy QGISing!<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
The QGIS Team!<br>
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