In our ongoing efforts to ensure the highest quality of the releases we publish, we would like to advise you of a critical issue found in the QGIS LTR 3.16.12 and QGIS LTR 3.16.13 MSI releases. Preparation of the 3.16.14 MSI build, which should address the issue, is underway and should be available on Friday 19 November 2021. In the interim, if you are using either of these affected MSI builds we advise you to immediately revert to QGIS 3.16.11 MSI. The download for QGIS 3.16.11 MSI is available here:

https://qgis.org/downloads/QGIS-OSGeo4W-3.16.11-1.msi

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On Friday, 28 May 2021 we will be holding our monthly QGIS Open Day! What is a QGIS Open Day you may be wondering to yourself? It is an initiative to replace the wonderful community meetups we used to hold every six months when times were different. Like our in-person meetings, the event is organized on the principle of self-organisation and community participation. This open day will have the theme of "QGIS Cutting Edge". We will have sessions that show new features and new ideas in QGIS. To find out more, please double-click this article to open the event page in your browser.

We are running out of space on our server running https://plugins.qgis.org - a sign of success, given the large number of plugins and plugin versions hosted on the platform. On Thursday 28 January at 9am West European Time, we will bring the server offline for a scheduled upgrade to the storage space on the server. We anticipate that the work will be completed within an hour. We thank you for your patience whilst we undertake this critical maintenance.  The maintenance of QGIS infrastructure is undertaken largely by volunteers and the cost of servers and hosting related costs are funded by your donations and sustaining memberships. If you would like to help support this (and the many other excellent initiatives carried out by QGIS.org), please consider double clicking this news item to find out how you can help!

With the recent advancements in LiDAR survey technology and photogrammetry there has been a growing demand for capturing and storing point cloud data. With this crowdfunding campaign, Lutra Consulting, North Road and Hobu are aiming to add support for visualizing (2D/3D) and styling point cloud data in QGIS, by teaming up with the PDAL community. Double click this new item to read more!

Dear QGIS users. We will be carrying out scheduled maintenance on https://plugins.qgis.org on Friday 10 July starting at around 9 am GMT. We expect the maintenance to be completed within an hour or two. During this time the plugin repository (as accessed from the plugins menu in QGIS) and aforementioned web site may be offline, slow to respond, or sporadically unavailable. Thank you for your patience while we carry out this work.

To better understand the needs of our QGIS community, we want to find out more about how different user groups and organisations use QGIS and particularly the LTR (Long Term Release) versions.

We therefore invite you to participate in our new LTR usage survey - double click this message to get started!

Would you like to help fund native vector tile support in QGIS?Vector Tiles are becoming an increasingly popular method for delivering styled web maps. It is not surprising - vector tiles bring benefits for both producers and consumers of maps. Producers need much less storage capacity and CPU power to generate vector tiles from raw data (compared to raster tiles) and consumers get high-quality maps that can be styled according to their needs and with less data to download. Double-Click on this news item to read more about this exciting campaign!

We are pleased to announce that the 24th QGIS Contributor Meeting will take place from 13 to 15 March 2020. The venue is the local office of the Netherlands Red Cross in 's-Hertogenbosch. A QGIS Contributor Meeting is a volunteer-driven event where contributors from around the world get together in a common space to improve the QGIS Project. The number of places available at the developer meeting may be limited, so be sure to register your intention to attend on the wiki page. Clicking on this news item will take you to the event wiki page where you can find out more details and register.

The QGIS contributors meeting (QCM) will take place from 23 to 25 August, right before FOSS4G Bucharest 2019. The first two days of FOSS4G, 26-27, are the workshop days. For those who will stay for the FOSS4G but are not busy with the workshops can easily continue the QCM. The FOSS4G workshops will take place in the same building as the QCM.