We are very pleased to announce the release of QGIS 1.5.0 'Tethys'.

Binary and source code packages are available at:

http://download.qgis.org

This release includes many great new features to make your QGIS experience even better than ever before. This release also contains many bug fixes that should improve stability over previous releases. For a detailed run down on what is new in this release, take a look at our visual changelog.

Along with the release of QGIS 1.5.0, the QGIS Community Team is hard at work on an updated QGIS Users' Guide version 1.5. The guide will be available in the near future - we will post announcements when it is available.

QGIS is a completely 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.

If you would like to make a donation or sponsor our project, please visit our sponsorship page. QGIS is Free software and you are under no obligation to do so.

Happy QGIS'ing!

Well I've finally released my graph colouring plugin, 'topocolour'.

Are you bored with Qgis' default of loading a polygon map and setting all the polygons the same colour? Well why not try 'TopoColour'! It combines the prettiness of ColorBrewer palettes with graph theory to colour your polygons so that no adjacent polygons are the same colour. In just two easy steps!

The OSGeo4W stuff crept up on me quietly. Suddenly there's this cygwin-like installer that bundles Qgis, uDig, Grass, web-mapping, and all the lovely libs in one neato package. That's a win.

But I still wanted an easy way to install qgis without the use having to choose which of the packages they wanted, and set options to install, and not get confused by some of the other options in the installer. So I went on the hunt for how to do an unattended install from a set of packages (ie not from the internet).

Hi Folks

This is a repeat of an email sent to the QGIS community for wider dissemination.

Contents:

1) QGIS 1.0 Preview II Tagged
2) Preview II checkout notes
3) Packagers
4) Plugin Writers
5) Release Team
6) QGIS Users & Developers
7) OSGEO Africa
8) Special note for Ubuntu 8.10 Users

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1) QGIS 1.0 Preview II Tagged

We are inching closer to a QGIS 1.0 release. With the QGIS API revision
done, and heaps more bug fixes from our dedicated team of developers, I

This is primarily a bug fix release and includes the following key changes:

• 70 Bugs closed
• Added locale tab to options dialog so that locale can be overridden
• Cleanups and additions to GRASS tools
• Python Plugin Installer for installing plugins from the PyQGIS repository
• Documentation updates
• Improvements for building under MSVC

Packages for a number of platforms are available at download.qgis.org

Many thanks to all those who have contributed in testing, reporting

From the QGIS Development Team:

It is our great pleasure to announce the immediate availability of Quantum GIS (QGIS) Version 0.9.0. See below for press release:

Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS) that runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows. QGIS supports vector, raster, and database formats. QGIS is licensed under the GNU General Public License.

Dear all

1) Can I get a quick straw poll for the question: Can we delete all the automake stuff from svn for this release?

Respond with +1, 0 or -1 as per normal.

2) I have the checklist for the 0.9.0 release up at

http://wiki.qgis.org/qgiswiki/ReleaseChecklist0.9

QGIS 0.8.1 is released and with it my first stint in my new role as Release Manager. I would like to say a very big 'thank you' to all the people who helped squash bugs, submit patches, convert the build system in 0.8 branch to cmake, update the msys environment and so on. Since it was my first time orchestrating a release, there were a few kinks in the process which hopefully will not be repeated in the next release.

Thanks to Martin Dobias' work on the GRASS raster problem, we now have a 0.8.1 test version that includes the raster fix, as well as all the other changes in the upcoming 0.8.1 release.

Please feel free to download and test this version. The setup file is available here: http://download.qgis.org/qgis/win32/qgis_setup0.8.1-rc1.exe (52Mb)

I've made a new preview build (windows only) for the upcoming QGIS 0.8.1 release. The 0.8.1 release will be primarily a bugfix release. There are two notable new features though:

* Many GRASS modules have been added to the GRASS toolbox
* The launcher plugin has been added to the list of available plugins