[Qgis-community-team] Fwd: Announcing the release of QGIS 0.11.0 'Metis'

[Stephan Reber]

Hi,

I added the announcement to the website and made an update on the
release site.

regards
Stephan

Tim Sutton schrieb:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Tim Sutton <tim at linfiniti.com>
> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:45:00 +0200
> Subject: Announcing the release of QGIS 0.11.0 'Metis'
> To: "QGIS release team." <qgis-release-team at lists.osgeo.org>,
> qgis-user <qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org>, qgis-developer
> <qgis-developer at lists.qgis.org>
>
> It is our great pleasure to announce the immediate availability of
> Quantum GIS (QGIS) Version 0.11.0. See below for press release:
>
> Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a user friendly Open Source Geographic
> Information System (GIS) that runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and
> Windows. QGIS supports vector, raster, and database formats. QGIS is
> licensed under the GNU General Public License. QGIS lets you browse
> and create map data on your computer. It supports many common spatial
> data formats (e.g. ESRI ShapeFile, geotiff). QGIS supports plugins to
> do things like display tracks from your GPS. QGIS is Open Source
> software and its free of cost (download here). We welcome
> contributions from our user community in the form of code
> contributions, bug fixes, bug reports, contributed documentation,
> advocacy and supporting other users on our mailing lists and forums.
> Financial contributions  are also welcome. This release introduces
> several new features including python support and many new GRASS
> modules. The release also includes numerous bug fixes and stability
> improvements. QGIS is available is source form, and as binary
> executables for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and GNU/Linux. All
> versions can be obtained from our download page at
> http://download.qgis.org . As an open source project, we provide
> support for using QGIS via our mailing lists and bug tracker:
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> Major changes in this release are:
>  * over 60 bug fixes
>  * legend improvements
>  * revision of toolbars and dialogs for consistency improved usability
>  * extended QML style support
>  * automated generation of projection information in srs.db
>  * improved view and filter for GRASS toolbox
>  * support for Qt4.2.x discontinued
>  * separation of python support into its own library
>
> QGIS is a completely volunteer driven project, and is the work of a
> dedicated team of developers, documenters and supporters. We extend
> our thanks and gratitude for the  many, many hours people have
> contributed to make this release happen.
>
>
> The visual changelog will be published at http://blog.qgis.org/
> shortly - visit that page for more for details.
>
> Best regards
>
>