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🚀 QGIS 4.0 is almost here! Test the pre-release NOW via OSGeo4W! 🌍

This massive update brings the long-planned transition to Qt6, making QGIS faster & future-ready. 🛠️

Top features:
✨ New Welcome Page
🛠️ Custom menus/toolbars
🎨 Copy/Paste ALL Styles
🗺️ 3D Billboards
⏳ Raster Temporal Accumulation

Help squash final bugs! 🐛🔨

🔗 Changelog: https://changelog.qgis.org/en/version/4.0/

➡About Camptocamp: https://camptocamp.com
➡About our QGIS offering: https://camptocamp.com/qgis

#QGIS #QGIS4 #GIS #Geospatial #OpenSource

@geobabbler @camptocamp thanks Bill

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@budududuroiu/116172079277610547

I think the fear of losing our digital sovereignty with SaaS AI/LLMs is exaggerated. There's a great momentum toward open-source models. As performance increases, required hardware decreases. All for the best.

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116167376455004192

Interesting perspective

GeoServer 2.28.0 released! With key migration to Eclipse ImageN thanks to GeoServer 3 crowdfunding campaign sponsors funding :)

https://geoserver.org/announcements/vulnerability/2025/10/14/geoserver-2-28-0-released.html

#foss4g #OSGeo

Perfect weather for #GeoServer code sprint

GeoServer code sprint day 2 - and it compiles and runs! Not all the plugins and modules - but enough for basic vector and raster map :)

#GeoServer #foss4g #OSGeo

GeoServer Sprint Day 3: Wow many things are now working! Also fresh Trofie for pesto

#GeoServer #foss4g #OSGeo

🚀 The release date for GeoServer 3 is officially set: 15 April 2026.

This major update modernizes the platform with Spring 7 and JDK 17, improving security and vulnerability management. It also simplifies cloud native deployments and brings better raster performance with ImageN.

Made possible by community crowdfunding and many sponsors.

🔗 https://geoserver.org/behind%20the%20scenes/2026/02/17/gs3-first-public-release-date.html
🔗 https://www.camptocamp.com⁠

#GeoServer #GIS #OpenSource

@knud @scy I think the outcome is public domain, not even MIT
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-supreme-court-declines-hear-dispute-over-copyrights-ai-generated-material-2026-03-02/

Dan Blanchard, maintainer of Python's "chardet" library, used Claude to rewrite the entire project's codebase so that he can switch the license from LGPL to MIT.

https://github.com/chardet/chardet/pull/322

I highly doubt that this is legal, but who the fuck cares these days anyway, right?

If I was a contributor to that project, I'd tell him in no vague words what I think about shit like that. "No bro, it's totally not relicensing your code bro, this is totally new code bro!"

via https://chaos.social/@Foxboron/116170859737134271

@geobabbler

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See https://camptocamp.com/news_and_events.

For those of you rediscovering TDD via agents - if you let your agent do TDD by writing unit tests and not developer tests, you will end up in a pickle. Agents tend to write very poor-quality unit tests that rely heavily on implementation details and mocks, because that is what they have been trained on. Good TDD uses developer tests that focus on behaviours, not details, and rarely uses mocks. You test the exports of a module, not its details.

The only disagreement I have with this statement is that is that the difficulty of knowledge acquisition and expression is well known to many disciplines outside of engineering. (The entire post is well worth reading.)

"And the fundamental challenge of knowledge acquisition, getting human experts to articulate their expertise in a form machines could use, proved far harder than anticipated."

https://www.ivanturkovic.com/2026/01/22/history-software-simplification-cobol-ai-hype

🥇 Un grand merci à Camptocamp, mécène des prochaines Rencontres Utilisateurs QGIS Francophones à Brest, niveau OR !

👉 https://camptocamp.com/fr

Vous pouvez vous aussi soutenir l'évènement : https://conf.qgis.osgeo.fr/z30_mecenat.html

#QGISFR2026

Excited to announce the first London Geo Meetup!

If you work with or are curious about maps or spatial data — come along.

📅 11th March, 6:00 PM onwards
📍 Geography Building, Queen Mary University of London, E1 4NS
🎟️ Free — just RSVP

Expect 2–3 short talks (15 min each) on anything geo — passion projects, open source tools, research — followed by networking. No sales pitches.

RSVP at: https://lgm.jsonsingh.com

#geospatial #GIS #OpenStreetMap #OSGeo #London #meetup #opensource #OSM

Check out our new case study: Citizen science in Zurich with Camptocamp and Mergin Maps

https://merginmaps.com/case-studies/citizen-science-in-zurich-with-camptocamp-and-mergin-maps

#QGIS #Mapping #MerginMaps #Camptocamp #casestudy

✨ MapFish Print 4.0 is out.

🖨️ A key and widely used tool for high performance cartographic report generation, MapFish Print reaches a major new technological milestone.

👏 Congratulations to the Camptocamp teams and many thanks to the external contributors!

➡️ MapFish Print v4 https://github.com/mapfish/mapfish-print/releases/tag/4.0.0
➡️ About Camptocamp: https://www.camptocamp.com⁠

#MapFishPrint #GIS #JasperReports #OpenSource #Camptocamp

@pwramsey I am not sure what would be best. I do see that when using these LLMs, knowledge blind spots are something we need to monitor carefully and actively work to reduce through study and practice.