From the email bag this just came out (actually yesterday)
Quantum GIS 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 2.0.1 ‘Dufour’. This release contains new features and extends the programmatic interface over QGIS the 1.x release series. Binary and source code packages are available via the large download link on our home page:http://qgis.org
If there is not yet a package for your platform on the above page, please check back regularly as packagers are still pushing out their work and they will update the download page to reflect the new packages. Along with the release of QGIS 2.0.1, the QGIS Community Team is hard at work on an updated QGIS Users’ Guide version 2.0.1. The guide will be available in the near future – we will post announcements when it is available.
We are also pleased to announce our new web site is now available at http://qgis.org – and we thank Boundless (http://boundlessgeo.com/) for sponsoring web developer time to make the new web site look beautiful, and our web team for the awesome job they have done.
So what does all that mean…well – the long awaited 2.0.1 is out. Talk is beginning on 2.1. Overall – there are very exciting things happening in the GIS desktop world. I have to remind myself and some people – with all the web and online this and that – GIS still happens on the desktop. If you aren’t using this piece of software in your GIS shop – you should give it a try. I’m off to update the QGIS class.
