Lutra Consulting and North Road are crowdfunding the next round of QGIS 3D work. The two main features are Gaussian splatting, so you can view reality capture data alongside your GIS layers, and animation for 2D and 3D maps. We'll also add atmospheric scattering, scene presets, identify and highlight in 3D, and gamepad navigation. Everything goes into QGIS, free for everyone. Pledges close on 7 December, and you can find out more on the campaign page.

If you are wondering when QGIS 4.4.0 will be released, please see our latest blog post for an update.

Investigative journalism, archeological data, mobile mapping, community updates, photo & docs sharing... all in one QGIS Open Day. Join us this Friday from 10h00 UTC onwards.  Links and details here: https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/wiki/QOD-October-2026 

More than 420 people from over 30 countries and five continents gathered in Laax from 4 to 9 October for the QGIS User Conference 2026 and Contributor Meeting

The next QGIS LTR release will be delayed. We plan to release QGIS 4.4.4 as LTR on 5 March 2027. Please follow this article link for more details.

Our community is growing! Recently, 5 new user groups were approved: Armenia, Cameroon, Canada, Croatia, and Cyprus, and more are coming soon. 

Curious to learn more? Cameroon and Canada will introduce themselves on Friday during the QGIS Open Day, and we'll also have a special session with Tim Sutton on how the QGIS.org Foundation works, including the PSC, AGMs, and how new user groups are created (spoiler: it involves a lot of very motivated, awesome people).

Click the link for details!

This month's QGIS Open Day is coming up. Have a project or use case to share? Email: opendays@qgis.org 

Too shy to present, or seen a cool QGIS use elsewhere? Here's a secret: we're launching QGIS in the Wild, a new initiative to collect use cases and show the world what QGIS can do.

To contribute, email administration@qgis.org. Subject: "QGIS in the wild". Body: organization name, what they did, + links/screenshots. Bonus points if you have a contact willing to share more.  

Happy mapping

What happened in QGIS this month? Can we rival ESRI Network Analyst? How did the Samburu migrate? And how was it mapped? Find out at this month's QGIS Open Day, our monthly recap of updates and interesting stories from the QGIS community. We will be broadcasting live this Friday. 

 See the link for the programme or subscribe to the QGIS YouTube channel for notifications.

Are you proud of your QGIS project? We want to hear about it! Each month, we organize a virtual open day featuring the most interesting developments and projects.  If you have something interesting to share or would like to propose a topic, reach out to administration@qgis.org.

Open days happen every month and are livestreamed on Jitsi and YouTube. 

On the last friday of every month we hold an online session for the QGIS Community. Presenters from around the world can share their experiences using QGIS for work and pleasure. We also have a regular 'what happened in QGIS this month?' session where you can catch up on the latest happenings in the project. See the link for the programme or subscribe to the QGIS YouTube channel for notifications.