[Qgis-developer] Announcing the release of QGIS 2.4 'Chugiak'

[Jürgen E. Fischer]

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 2.4 'Chugiak'.

The new release contains a lot of new features, tweaks and enhancements.  The
most noticible improvement is probably the long awaited multithreaded
rendering, that lets QGIS leave a much more responsive impression.

This is second release following our new four month release schedule that is
meant to make new features and bugfixes available quicker and the development
and new releases more predictable.   This time the testing phase was especially
fruitful and was therefore extended by a week. Thanks to all the tester for
their time and good reports.

The source code and binaries for Windows, Debian, Fedora 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.


A word of thanks to our contributors, donors and sponsors
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QGIS is a largely 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.
Many companies and organizations contribute back their improvements to QGIS and
fund development of new features when they use it as their platform, and we are
grateful for this and encourage others to do the same! We would also like to
thank our sponsors and donors for helping to promote our work through their
financial contributions. Our current sponsors are (QGIS Sponsorship is valid
for one year):

Gold Sponsor:
Asia Air Survey (http://www.asiaairsurvey.com/)

Silver Sponsor:
G.A.I.A. mbH (http://www.gaia-mbh.de/)
State of Vorarlberg (http://www.vorarlberg.at)

Bronze Sponsors:
ArguSoft GmbH & Co KG (http://argusoft.de)
Dr.-Ing Claas Leiner, http://www.eschenlaub.de
Molitec (http://www.molitec.it/)
OPENRUNNER, http://www.openrunner.com/

A current list of donors who have made financial contributions large and
small to the project can be seen here:
http://qgis.org/en/site/about/sponsorship.html#list-of-donors

If you would like to make a donation or sponsor our project, please visit
*http://qgis.org/en/site/about/sponsorship.html#sponsorship* . QGIS is Free
software and you are under no obligation to do so. Sponsoring QGIS helps us to
fund our six monthly developer meetings, maintain project infrastructure and
fund bug fixing efforts

Visual tour of the new release:
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You can find a list of highlighted changes and new features listed on the
detailed release announcement available here:

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http://changelog.linfiniti.com/qgis/version/2.4.0/
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Give us your feedback:
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We welcome your feedback - please visit our issue tracker if you encounter
an issue with the new release:

http://hub.qgis.org/

Please consult the existing issues there before filing any new ones.


Happy QGISing!

Regards,

The QGIS Team!



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