Hi there, I'm happy to announce that the QGIS packages of 3.16.4 (LTR) 'Hannover' and the our latest release 3.18.0 'Zürich' are ready on https://qgis.org/de/site/forusers/download.html. This includes Linux, Mac and Windows packages. With the availability of a new regular release the current long-term release 3.16 replaces the previous long-term release 3.10 in the long term package repositories.
The Windows standalone installer are as usual made from the OSGeo4W packages. In OSGeo4W there has lately been a big effort to reboot it, meaning that it has been completely rebuilt using newer source versions of mostly every package using a newer compiler. As this happened shortly before the QGIS release the new packages are still in a separate repository for testing. You can install them using the osgeo4w installer on http://download.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/testing/osgeo4w-setup.exe (note the testing - the old installer will also work, if you point it to the new site, but it will default to the old). Within the reboot a lot of old packages were dropped (including dependencies to old microsoft runtimes), new packages were introduced and also package names were revised. Long story short: you cannot upgrade from old installs and have to remove and reinstall or use a separate directory. As the new OSGeo4W only supports 64bit the default root directory was changed to C:\OSGeo4W, which might help with that if you were on 64bit earlier. Also note that it now only has one version of Python - namely 3.9, which doesn't support Windows 7 anymore. Other updates include Qt 5.15, GDAL 3.2, PROJ 7.2 and SAGA 7.8. It also has PDAL 2.2 which is required for native support of point clouds in QGIS - something that you find lacking in the "old" OSGeo4W repository and in turn in the current standalones. The new installer also doesn't require administrator privileges anymore. Unless you run it elevated (ie. as Administrator) the option to create shortcuts for all users will be unavailable. The testing repository will eventually replace the old repository and also be used to make standalone installers. As it has grown to exceed the 2GB limit of NSIS the standalone installers will then be switched to MSI. The package recipes currently reside at https://github.com/jef-n/OSGeo4W. Please test and report packaging issues to the OSGeo4W TRAC at https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w. Jürgen -- Jürgen E. Fischer norBIT GmbH Tel. +49-4931-918175-31 Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Rheinstraße 13 Fax. +49-4931-918175-50 Software Engineer D-26506 Norden https://www.norbit.de QGIS release manager (PSC) Germany IRC: jef on FreeNode
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