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

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

Thanks for doing the updares Stephan!

regards

Tim

On 7/21/08, Stephan Reber <stephan.reber at sr-gis.de> wrote:
> 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
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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
>>
>>
>


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