<div dir="ltr">Thanks Jurgen.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, 2 Mar 2015 at 22:55 Jürgen E. <<a href="mailto:jef@norbit.de">jef@norbit.de</a>> wrote:<br><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 2.8 'Wien'.<br>
Wien is German for 'Vienna' - host city to our developer meet up in November<br>
2009 and again in March 2014.<br>
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Long Term Release<br>
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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).<br>
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The purpose of LTR releases is to provide a stable and less frequently changing<br>
platform for enterprises and organisations 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>
organisations that like to live on the frontier, our regular four monthly<br>
releases will continue unabated.<br>
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New Features<br>
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QGIS 2.8 is also a special release because it includes so many great new<br>
features, tweaks and enhancements to make the most popular Free desktop GIS<br>
even more feature filled and useful. Visit the visual changelog that<br>
highlights some of the new additions<br>
(<a href="http://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/visualchangelog28/index.html" target="_blank">http://qgis.org/en/site/<u></u>forusers/visualchangelog28/<u></u>index.html</a>).<br>
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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 (<a href="http://hub.qgis.org/" target="_blank">http://hub.qgis.org/</a>). Please consult the<br>
existing and closed issues there before filing any new ones.<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 (<a href="http://qgis.org/" target="_blank">http://qgis.org/</a>).<br>
More 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>
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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>
<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 <a href="http://qgis.org" target="_blank">http://qgis.org</a> and lend a hand!<br>
<br>
Finally we would like to thank our official sponsors for the invaluable<br>
financial support they provide to this project:<br>
<br>
Gold Sponsor:<br>
Asia Air Survey, Japan (<a href="http://www.asiaairsurvey.com/" target="_blank">http://www.asiaairsurvey.com/</a><u></u>)<br>
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Silver Sponsors:<br>
Sourcepole AG, Switzerland (<a href="http://www.sourcepole.com/" target="_blank">http://www.sourcepole.com/</a>)<br>
State of Vorarlberg, Austria (<a href="http://www.vorarlberg.at/" target="_blank">http://www.vorarlberg.at/</a>)<br>
Office of Public Works, Ireland, Ireland (<a href="http://www.opw.ie/" target="_blank">http://www.opw.ie/</a>)<br>
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Bronze Sponsors:<br>
<a href="http://www.molitec.it" target="_blank">www.molitec.it</a>, Italy (<a href="http://www.molitec.it/" target="_blank">http://www.molitec.it/</a>)<br>
<a href="http://www.argusoft.de" target="_blank">www.argusoft.de</a>, Germany (<a href="http://www.argusoft.de/" target="_blank">http://www.argusoft.de/</a>)<br>
<a href="http://www.openrunner.com" target="_blank">www.openrunner.com</a>, France (<a href="http://www.openrunner.com/" target="_blank">http://www.openrunner.com/</a>)<br>
GKG Kassel,(Dr.-Ing. Claas Leiner), Germany (<a href="http://www.eschenlaub.de/" target="_blank">http://www.eschenlaub.de/</a>)<br>
Customer Analytics, USA (<a href="http://www.customeranalytics.com/" target="_blank">http://www.customeranalytics.<u></u>com/</a>)<br>
Urbsol, Australia (<a href="http://www.urbsol.com.au/" target="_blank">http://www.urbsol.com.au/</a>)<br>
MappingGIS, Spain (<a href="http://www.mappinggis.com/" target="_blank">http://www.mappinggis.com/</a>)<br>
Lutra Consulting, UK (<a href="http://www.lutraconsulting.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.lutraconsulting.<u></u>co.uk/</a>)<br>
ADLARES GmbH, Germany (<a href="http://www.adlares.com/" target="_blank">http://www.adlares.com/</a>)<br>
Avioportolano Italia, Italy (<a href="http://www.avioportolano.it/" target="_blank">http://www.avioportolano.it/</a>)<br>
Faculty of Geology, Geophysics and Environmental Protection, AGH, University<br>
of Science and Technology, Poland (<a href="http://www.wggios.agh.edu.pl/en/" target="_blank">http://www.wggios.agh.edu.pl/<u></u>en/</a>)<br>
<br>
A current list of donors who have made financial contributions large and small<br>
to the project can be seen on our donors list<br>
(<a href="http://qgis.org/en/site/about/sponsorship.html#list-of-donors" target="_blank">http://qgis.org/en/site/<u></u>about/sponsorship.html#list-<u></u>of-donors</a>).<br>
<br>
If you would like to become and official project sponsor, please visit our<br>
sponsorship page for details. Sponsoring QGIS helps us to fund our six monthly<br>
developer meetings, maintain project infrastructure and fund bug fixing efforts<br>
(<a href="http://qgis.org/en/site/about/sponsorship.html#sponsorship" target="_blank">http://qgis.org/en/site/<u></u>about/sponsorship.html#<u></u>sponsorship</a>).<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.<br>
<br>
Sponsoring QGIS helps us to fund our six monthly developer meetings, maintain<br>
project infrastructure and fund bug fixing efforts.<br>
<br>
<br>
Happy QGISing!<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
The QGIS Team!<br>
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Jürgen E. Fischer norBIT GmbH Tel. +49-4931-918175-31<br>
Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Rheinstraße 13 Fax. +49-4931-918175-50<br>
Software Engineer D-26506 Norden <a href="http://www.norbit.de" target="_blank">http://www.norbit.de</a><br>
QGIS release manager (PSC) Germany IRC: jef on FreeNode<br>
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