Congratulations to all involved, once again QGIS has leaped forward with a bunch of new features.
That said, the "test the release candidate" on qgis.org should be replaced by "enjoy the new version" :) On 28 Jun 2014 07:57, "Jürgen E." <j...@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 2.4 '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 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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: > -------------------------------------- > > You can find a list of highlighted changes and new features listed on the > detailed release announcement available here: > > * > http://changelog.linfiniti.com/qgis/version/2.4.0/ > * > > > Give us your feedback: > ------------------------------ > > 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! > > > > -- > Jürgen E. Fischer - QGIS Project Steering Committee Member > ========================================================== > Please do not email me off-list with technical support > questions. Using the lists will gain more exposure for > your issues and the knowledge surrounding your issue will > be shared with all. > > IRC: jef on #qgis at freenode.net > ========================================================== > > -- > norBIT Gesellschaft fuer Unternehmensberatung und Informationssysteme mbH > Rheinstrasse 13, 26506 Norden > GF: Jelto Buurman, HR: Amtsgericht Emden, HRB 5502 > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >
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