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QGIS is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System that runs onLinux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows.We are very pleased to announce the release of QGIS 2.14 'Essen'. Essen wasthe host city to our developer meet ups in October 2012 and 2014.Long Term ReleaseThis 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 willbe in permanent feature freeze (i.e. no new features will be added, only bugfixes and trivial updates). Note that we are in discussion to extend the termof our LTR releases to two years, but for technical reasons we will not do thisuntil QGIS 3.2.The purpose of LTR releases is to provide a stable and less frequently changingplatform for enterprises and organizations that do not want to deal withupdating user skills, training materials etc. more than once per year. Thesuccess of the LTR is very much down to you, our beloved users - we need yoursupport to help funding bug fixes and making sure in your support contractswith support providers specify that any bug fixes done on your behalf areapplied to the LTR branch as well as our normal development branch.If an LTR is important to you, please consider also directly supporting theQGIS project, or encourage your commercial provider to use LTR as a basis foryour enterprise solution so that everyone may benefit from a stable platformthat is being continuously improved and refined. Note that for users andorganizations that like to live on the frontier, our regular four monthlyreleases 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 agreat 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 and2.12 releases as this QGIS 2.14 includes all features published in thosereleases 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 notimmediately replace 2.8 in the LTR package repositories. That will happen when2.16 is released.Whenever new features are added to software they introduce the possibility ofnew bugs - if you encounter any problems with this release, please file aticket on the QGIS Bug Tracker.(http://hub.qgis.org)The source code and binaries for Windows, Debian and Ubuntu are alreadyavailable via the large download link on our home page: http://qgis.org. Morepackages will follow as soon as the package maintainers finish their work.Please revisit the page if your platform is not available yet.
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QGIS is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System that runs onLinux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows.We are very pleased to announce the release of QGIS 2.14 'Essen'. Essen wasthe host city to our developer meet ups in October 2012 and 2014.Long Term ReleaseThis 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 willbe in permanent feature freeze (i.e. no new features will be added, only bugfixes and trivial updates). Note that we are in discussion to extend the termof our LTR releases to two years, but for technical reasons we will not do thisuntil QGIS 3.2.The purpose of LTR releases is to provide a stable and less frequently changingplatform for enterprises and organizations that do not want to deal withupdating user skills, training materials etc. more than once per year. Thesuccess of the LTR is very much down to you, our beloved users - we need yoursupport to help funding bug fixes and making sure in your support contractswith support providers specify that any bug fixes done on your behalf areapplied to the LTR branch as well as our normal development branch.If an LTR is important to you, please consider also directly supporting theQGIS project, or encourage your commercial provider to use LTR as a basis foryour enterprise solution so that everyone may benefit from a stable platformthat is being continuously improved and refined. Note that for users andorganizations that like to live on the frontier, our regular four monthlyreleases 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 agreat 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 and2.12 releases as this QGIS 2.14 includes all features published in thosereleases 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 notimmediately replace 2.8 in the LTR package repositories. That will happen when2.16 is released.Whenever new features are added to software they introduce the possibility ofnew bugs - if you encounter any problems with this release, please file aticket on the QGIS Bug Tracker.(http://hub.qgis.org)The source code and binaries for Windows, Debian and Ubuntu are alreadyavailable via the large download link on our home page: http://qgis.org. Morepackages will follow as soon as the package maintainers finish their work.Please revisit the page if your platform is not available yet.
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