[FOSSGIS-Talk] Announcing the release of QGIS 2.14 'Essen'

[Jürgen E. Fischer]

Hallo Freunde,

QGIS 2.14 'Essen' wurde gerade veröffentlicht!

Viel Spaß damit...

Jürgen


----- Forwarded message from "Jürgen E. Fischer" <jef at norbit.de> -----

Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 20:27:47 +0100
From: "Jürgen E. Fischer" <jef at norbit.de>
To: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org, qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Announcing the release of QGIS 2.14 'Essen'

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 2.14 'Essen'.  Essen was
the host city to our developer meet ups in October 2012 and 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). Note that we are in discussion to extend the term
of our LTR releases to two years, but for technical reasons we will not do this
until QGIS 3.2.

The purpose of LTR releases is to provide a stable and less frequently changing
platform for enterprises and organizations 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
organizations that like to live on the frontier, our regular four monthly
releases will continue unabated.

New Features in QGIS 2.14 'Essen'

If you are upgrading from QGIS 2.8 (our previous LTR version) you will find a
great many new features in this release.
(http://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/visualchangelog214/)

We encourage you to peruse the changelogs for the intermediate non LTR 2.10 and
2.12 releases as this QGIS 2.14 includes all features published in those
releases too.
(http://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/visualchangelog212/)
(http://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/visualchangelog210/)

Note that 2.14 first enters the regular package repositories and will not
immediately replace 2.8 in the LTR package repositories. That will happen when
2.16 is released.

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)

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).