<p dir="ltr">Congratulations to all involved, once again QGIS has leaped forward with a bunch of new features. </p>
<p dir="ltr">That said, the "test the release candidate" on <a href="http://qgis.org">qgis.org</a> should be replaced by "enjoy the new version" :)</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 28 Jun 2014 07:57, "Jürgen E." <<a href="mailto:jef@norbit.de">jef@norbit.de</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
QGIS is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System<br>
that runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows.<br>
<br>
We are very pleased to announce the release of QGIS 2.4 'Chugiak'.<br>
<br>
The new release contains a lot of new features, tweaks and enhancements. The<br>
most noticible improvement is probably the long awaited multithreaded<br>
rendering, that lets QGIS leave a much more responsive impression.<br>
<br>
This is second release following our new four month release schedule that is<br>
meant to make new features and bugfixes available quicker and the development<br>
and new releases more predictable. This time the testing phase was especially<br>
fruitful and was therefore extended by a week. Thanks to all the tester for<br>
their time and good reports.<br>
<br>
The source code and binaries for Windows, Debian, Fedora and Ubuntu are already<br>
available via the large download link on our home page: <a href="http://qgis.org" target="_blank">http://qgis.org</a>. 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>
A word of thanks to our contributors, donors and sponsors<br>
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QGIS is a largely volunteer driven project, and is the work of a dedicated team<br>
of developers, documenters and supporters. We extend our thanks and gratitude<br>
for the many, many hours people have contributed to make this release happen.<br>
Many companies and organizations contribute back their improvements to QGIS and<br>
fund development of new features when they use it as their platform, and we are<br>
grateful for this and encourage others to do the same! We would also like to<br>
thank our sponsors and donors for helping to promote our work through their<br>
financial contributions. Our current sponsors are (QGIS Sponsorship is valid<br>
for one year):<br>
<br>
Gold Sponsor:<br>
Asia Air Survey (<a href="http://www.asiaairsurvey.com/" target="_blank">http://www.asiaairsurvey.com/</a>)<br>
<br>
Silver Sponsor:<br>
G.A.I.A. mbH (<a href="http://www.gaia-mbh.de/" target="_blank">http://www.gaia-mbh.de/</a>)<br>
State of Vorarlberg (<a href="http://www.vorarlberg.at" target="_blank">http://www.vorarlberg.at</a>)<br>
<br>
Bronze Sponsors:<br>
ArguSoft GmbH & Co KG (<a href="http://argusoft.de" target="_blank">http://argusoft.de</a>)<br>
Dr.-Ing Claas Leiner, <a href="http://www.eschenlaub.de" target="_blank">http://www.eschenlaub.de</a><br>
Molitec (<a href="http://www.molitec.it/" target="_blank">http://www.molitec.it/</a>)<br>
OPENRUNNER, <a href="http://www.openrunner.com/" target="_blank">http://www.openrunner.com/</a><br>
<br>
A current list of donors who have made financial contributions large and<br>
small to the project can be seen here:<br>
<a href="http://qgis.org/en/site/about/sponsorship.html#list-of-donors" target="_blank">http://qgis.org/en/site/about/sponsorship.html#list-of-donors</a><br>
<br>
If you would like to make a donation or sponsor our project, please visit<br>
*<a href="http://qgis.org/en/site/about/sponsorship.html#sponsorship*" target="_blank">http://qgis.org/en/site/about/sponsorship.html#sponsorship*</a> . QGIS is Free<br>
software and you are under no obligation to do so. Sponsoring QGIS helps us to<br>
fund our six monthly developer meetings, maintain project infrastructure and<br>
fund bug fixing efforts<br>
<br>
Visual tour of the new release:<br>
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You can find a list of highlighted changes and new features listed on the<br>
detailed release announcement available here:<br>
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<a href="http://changelog.linfiniti.com/qgis/version/2.4.0/" target="_blank">http://changelog.linfiniti.com/qgis/version/2.4.0/</a><br>
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Give us your feedback:<br>
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We welcome your feedback - please visit our issue tracker if you encounter<br>
an issue with the new release:<br>
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<a href="http://hub.qgis.org/" target="_blank">http://hub.qgis.org/</a><br>
<br>
Please consult the existing issues there before filing any new ones.<br>
<br>
<br>
Happy QGISing!<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
The QGIS Team!<br>
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Jürgen E. Fischer - QGIS Project Steering Committee Member<br>
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