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QGIS Changelog 

for QGIS $VERSION '$NAME'

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h1. Introduction 

Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS), licensed under the GNU General Public License, that runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows. QGIS is Open Source software and its free of cost. It supports vector, raster, and database formats (including the most common ESRI ShapeFile and geotiff). QGIS supports a wide variety of plugins to do things like display tracks from your GPS, and much more. They can be easily managed through the Plugin Manager.

As an open source project, we provide support for using QGIS via our mailing lists and bug tracker:
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 - For general enquiries subscribe to our users mailing list at http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
 - For developer related enquiries subscribe to our separate developers list at http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
 - If you think you have found a bug, please report it using our bug tracker. When reporting bugs, please include some contact information in case we need help with replicating your issue. The tracker is available at https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/
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% QGIS $VERSION brings with it a wealth of improvements, $NBUGS bug fixes and many new features. 

Along with the release of QGIS $VERSION, the QGIS Community Team is also extremely pleased to announce the immediate availability of the QGIS Users' Guide version $DOCVERSION. 

%This is a substantial body of work that includes a complete revision of the guide, addition of many new sections covering the user interface, introductory tutorials on programming with QGIS, notes on compilation, and much more! The guide includes many screenshots to make it easy to digest. Work will soon begin in translating this guide into additional languages. In all the QGIS User's Guide includes over 250 pages of content and is a fantastic companion to the QGIS 1.0.0 application. 
The guide can be downloaded from http://download.qgis.org.

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% For a nice overview of the bugs that were fixed for this release, take a look at: https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/milestone/Version%201.0.0

h1. Download your copy 

Binary and source code packages are available at http://download.qgis.org

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h1. Visual changes 

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h2. New Open Vector Dialog 

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h2. Changelog 

Full changelog is provided here:

- Plugin Installer polishing, updates, new repositories for the 1.x
- add usb: to list of gps device on linux 
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