. New Staff: The community welcomed Hefni Azzahra as a new documentation writer in late 2025, helping to bolster the project's educational resources. Grant Program Results: Reports from the 2025 Grant Proposals were finalized, highlighting developments such as porting SQL query history to the browser and adopting wasm32-emscripten for web-based builds. QGIS +4 Would you like more details on the specific
The QGIS 3.40 LTR (Long-Term Release) has had its maintenance period extended through May 2026, offering extended support for enterprise users. Infrastructure and Documentation Updates qgis december 2025 news
A second headline catches the eye: “QGIS 3.48 introduces native SpatiaLite 5.2 with vector tile acceleration.” Buried beneath the jargon is a quiet revolution. For years, the geospatial world was divided between the “heavy” desktops (ArcGIS Pro, QGIS) and the “light” web maps (Mapbox, Felt). The December update erases that boundary. By baking vector tile serving directly into the desktop interface—without requiring a separate server—QGIS allows a user to pan, zoom, and style a 500-million-point lidar dataset on a five-year-old laptop. The news here is not speed; it is the banality of speed. What was a “big data” problem in 2020 is now a background hum in 2025. The essayistic implication is striking: as performance barriers evaporate, the remaining friction is no longer technical but hermeneutic. We no longer ask, “Can I load this?” but “What does this pattern mean?” QGIS +4 Would you like more details on