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<b>Da:</b> "Jürgen E. Fischer" <jef@norbit.de><br>
<b>Inviato il:</b> 29 febbraio 2016 20:27:47 CET<br>
<b>A:</b> qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org, qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b>Oggetto:</b> [Qgis-developer] Announcing the release of QGIS 2.14 'Essen'<br>
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<pre class="k9mail">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 />(<a
href="http://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/visualchangelog214">http://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/visualchangelog214</a>/)<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 />(<a href="http://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/visualchangelog212">http://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/visualchangelog212</a>/)<br />(<a href="http://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/visualchangelog210">http://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/visualchangelog210</a>/)<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 />(<a
href="http://hub.qgis.org">http://hub.qgis.org</a>)<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">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 />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 <a href="http://qgis.org">qgis.org</a> 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 />(<a href="http://qgis.org/en/site/about/sponsorship.html">http://qgis.org/en/site/about/sponsorship.html</a>)<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 <a href="http://HostingFacts.com">HostingFacts.com</a>, 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 />(<a href="http://qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/donations.html">http://qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/donations.html</a>)<br /><br /><br />Happy QGISing!<br /><br />Regards,<br /><br />The QGIS Team!<br /></pre><p style="margin-top: 2.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; border-bottom: 1px solid #000"></p><pre class="k9mail"><hr /><br />Qgis-developer mailing list<br />Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org<br />List info: <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer</a><br />Unsubscribe: <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer</a></pre><br>
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