[Qgis-developer] [Qgis-user] Announcing the release of QGIS 2.8 'Wien'

[Nathan Woodrow]

Thanks Jurgen.

On Mon, 2 Mar 2015 at 22:55 Jürgen E. <jef at norbit.de> 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 2.8 'Wien'.
> Wien is German for 'Vienna' - host city to our developer meet up in
> November
> 2009 and again in March 2014.
>
>
> Long Term Release
>
> This is a special release since it is designated an 'LTR' (Long Term
> Release).
> LTR releases will be supported with backported bug fixes for one year, and
> will
> be in permanent feature freeze (i.e. no new features will be added, only
> bug
> fixes and trivial updates).
>
> The purpose of LTR releases is to provide a stable and less frequently
> changing
> platform for enterprises and organisations that do not want to deal with
> updating user skills, training materials etc. more than once per year. The
> success of the LTR is very much down to you, our beloved users - we need
> your
> support to help funding bug fixes and making sure in your support contracts
> with support providers specify that any bug fixes done on your behalf are
> applied to the LTR branch as well as our normal development branch.
>
> If an LTR is important to you, please consider also directly supporting the
> QGIS project, or encourage your commercial provider to use LTR as a basis
> for
> your enterprise solution so that everyone may benefit from a stable
> platform
> that is being continuously improved and refined. Note that for users and
> organisations that like to live on the frontier, our regular four monthly
> releases will continue unabated.
>
>
> New Features
>
> QGIS 2.8 is also a special release because it includes so 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/visualchangelog28/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/).  Please consult the
> existing and closed issues there before filing any new ones.
>
> 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 http://qgis.org and lend a hand!
>
> Finally we would like to thank our official sponsors for the invaluable
> financial support they provide to this project:
>
> Gold Sponsor:
>  Asia Air Survey, Japan (http://www.asiaairsurvey.com/)
>
> Silver Sponsors:
>  Sourcepole AG, Switzerland (http://www.sourcepole.com/)
>  State of Vorarlberg, Austria (http://www.vorarlberg.at/)
>  Office of Public Works, Ireland, Ireland (http://www.opw.ie/)
>
> Bronze Sponsors:
>  www.molitec.it, Italy (http://www.molitec.it/)
>  www.argusoft.de, Germany (http://www.argusoft.de/)
>  www.openrunner.com, France (http://www.openrunner.com/)
>  GKG Kassel,(Dr.-Ing. Claas Leiner), Germany (http://www.eschenlaub.de/)
>  Customer Analytics, USA (http://www.customeranalytics.com/)
>  Urbsol, Australia (http://www.urbsol.com.au/)
>  MappingGIS, Spain (http://www.mappinggis.com/)
>  Lutra Consulting, UK (http://www.lutraconsulting.co.uk/)
>  ADLARES GmbH, Germany (http://www.adlares.com/)
>  Avioportolano Italia, Italy (http://www.avioportolano.it/)
>  Faculty of Geology, Geophysics and Environmental Protection, AGH,
> University
>    of Science and Technology, Poland (http://www.wggios.agh.edu.pl/en/)
>
> A current list of donors who have made financial contributions large and
> small
> to the project can be seen on our donors list
> (http://qgis.org/en/site/about/sponsorship.html#list-of-donors).
>
> If you would like to become and official project sponsor, please visit our
> sponsorship page for details. Sponsoring QGIS helps us to fund our six
> monthly
> developer meetings, maintain project infrastructure and fund bug fixing
> efforts
> (http://qgis.org/en/site/about/sponsorship.html#sponsorship).
>
> QGIS is Free software and you are under no obligation to pay anything to
> use it
> - in fact we want to encourage people far and wide to use it regardless of
> what
> your financial or social status is - we believe empowering people with
> spatial
> decision making tools will result in a better society for all of humanity.
>
> Sponsoring QGIS helps us to fund our six monthly developer meetings,
> maintain
> project infrastructure and fund bug fixing efforts.
>
>
> Happy QGISing!
>
> Regards,
>
> The QGIS Team!
>
> --
> Jürgen E. Fischer           norBIT GmbH             Tel. +49-4931-918175-31
> Dipl.-Inf. (FH)             Rheinstraße 13          Fax. +49-4931-918175-50
> Software Engineer           D-26506 Norden
> http://www.norbit.de
> QGIS release manager (PSC)  Germany                    IRC: jef on FreeNode
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