[Qgis-user] Announcing the release of QGIS 2.10 'Pisa'

[Nyall Dawson]

On 22 July 2015 at 22:14, Nicolas Cadieux <nicolas.cadieux at archeotec.ca> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> This is great news. Can anybody expand on the following:
>
> "Greatly improved and more robust raster calculator...".
>
> I see there are new log functions but this indicate more changes to the raster calculator.  Is it faster in any way?  Does it still work using a nearest neighbor algorithm?  Improved float capabilities?

Greatly improved float and reprojection handling for a start, also
improvements like a choice of output CRS (before the CRS from the
first layer was always selected, even if the output bounds were from a
different CRS). Nodata handling should be much more user-friendly and
reliable now too.

Nyall

>
> Thanks
>
> Nicolas Cadieux M.Sc.
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> On Jul 22, 2015 02:17, "Jürgen E. Fischer [via OSGeo.org] " <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> QGIS is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System
> that runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows.
>
> We are very pleased to announce the release of QGIS 2.10 'Pisa'. Pisa was the
> host city to our developer meet up in March 2010.
>
> Latest Release
>
> This is another release following our four monthly schedule.  It again brings
> many nice new features to QGIS.  With the release of 2.10 the previous release
> 2.8 'Wien', which is designated a long term release (LTR) is moved to the long
> term package repositories and is the first to arrive there.  If you are working
> in a production environment where you wish to be more conservative about
> rolling out new features to your users, you will probably prefer those.  Of
> course going with the feature frozen LTR also means that you'll have to learn
> to do without all the nice new things introduced in 2.10 and above until the
> next long term is released next year.
>
>
> New Features in QGIS 2.10 'Pisa'
>
> QGIS 2.10 includes many great new features, tweaks and enhancements to make the
> most popular Free desktop GIS even more feature filled and useful.  Visit the
> visual changelog that highlights some of the new additions
> (http://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/visualchangelog210/index.html).
>
> Whenever new features are added to software they introduce the possibility of
> new bugs - if you encounter any problems with this release, please file a
> ticket on the QGIS Bug Tracker (http://hub.qgis.org).
>
> The source code and binaries for Windows, Debian and Ubuntu are already
> available via the large download link on our home page: http://qgis.org.  More
> packages will follow as soon as the package maintainers finish their work.
> Please revisit the page if your platform is not available yet.
>
>
> Thanks
>
> We would like to thank the developers, documenters, testers and all the many
> folks out there who volunteer their time and effort (or fund people to do so).
>
> From the QGIS community we hope you enjoy this release! If you wish to donate
> time, money or otherwise get involved in making QGIS more awesome, please
> wander along to qgis.org and lend a hand!
>
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> financial support they provide to this project:
>
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