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<span>Dear QGIS Developers, Users and Supporters!
</span><br>
<br>
<span>We are pleased to announce that QGIS <span class="bold
highlight search-highlight">1.7.3</span> is now available. This
is a </span><br>
<span>bugfix release over version 1.7.2. A detailed changelog is
available on </span><br>
<span>our home page[1].
</span><br>
<br>
<span>Binary downloads[2] are already available but some are still
making </span><br>
<span>their way to the download page so if you don't see your
preferred OS </span><br>
<span>there please check again in a day or two.
</span><br>
<br>
<span>Thanks to bug reporters who have reported bugs using upgraded
issue </span><br>
<span>tracker[3] and special thanks to all developers who fixed
those reported </span><br>
<span>bugs.
</span><br>
<br>
<span>As always, if you find a bug please report it on [3].
</span><br>
<br>
<span>QGIS is the collaborative effort of many coders, translators,
</span><br>
<span>documentors, bug reporters and other community members.
</span><br>
<br>
<span>QGIS continues to have great momentum - we recently branched
the code </span><br>
<span>base for an upcoming release of QGIS 1.8.0 and we are about to
break API </span><br>
<span>compatibility in our 'master' branch to start us down the road
towards </span><br>
<span>the eventual release of QGIS 2.0. If you enjoy using QGIS and
are able </span><br>
<span>to, please consider sponsoring our project - the money you
donate helps </span><br>
<span>us to run our developer meetings and generally keep the
project moving </span><br>
<span>forward. You can find more details on how to sponsor QGIS on
our home </span><br>
<span>page[4]. QGIS recently obtained it's second Silver Sponsor for
2011! </span><br>
<span>Thank you Kanton Solothurn, Switzerland (Silver Sponsor from
April </span><br>
<span>2011)[5] and the State of Vorarlberg, Austria (Silver Sponsor
from </span><br>
<span>November 2011)[6], your financial help is greatly appreciated!
</span><br>
<br>
<span>[1] </span><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://tinyurl.com/release173">http://tinyurl.com/release173</a><a
href="http://tinyurl.com/qgis-1-7-2" target="_top" rel="nofollow"><span><span
class="bold highlight search-highlight"></span></span></a><br>
<span>[2] </span><a href="http://download.qgis.org" target="_top"
rel="nofollow"><span>http://download.qgis.org</span></a><br>
<span>[3] </span><a href="http://hub.qgis.org" target="_top"
rel="nofollow"><span>http://hub.qgis.org</span></a><br>
<span>[4] </span><a href="http://qgis.org/en/sponsorship.html"
target="_top" rel="nofollow"><span>http://qgis.org/en/sponsorship.html</span></a><br>
<span>[5] </span><a href="http://www.agi.so.ch/" target="_top"
rel="nofollow"><span>http://www.agi.so.ch/</span></a><br>
<span>[6] </span><a href="http://www.vorarlberg.at/" target="_top"
rel="nofollow"><span>http://www.vorarlberg.at/</span></a><br>
<br>
<span>on behalf of the QGIS Team
</span><br>
<span>Werner Macho
</span><br>
<span>QGIS Release Maintainer
</span>
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