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| 1 | +--- |
| 2 | +news: true |
| 3 | +title: New openEO QGIS plugin has been released |
| 4 | +date: 2025-12-22 |
| 5 | +author: Matthias Mohr, Caro Niebl |
| 6 | +--- |
| 7 | + |
| 8 | +We’re excited to announce the availability of a **new and fully rewritten openEO QGIS plugin**, now ready for broader testing by the community. |
| 9 | + |
| 10 | +This release represents a major step forward in usability, stability, and feature coverage. The plugin has been redesigned from the ground up and is now **fully integrated into the QGIS Browser**, providing a seamless and intuitive way to access openEO backends and resources directly from QGIS. |
| 11 | + |
| 12 | +- **QGIS plugin repository:** |
| 13 | + <https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/openeo_plugin/> |
| 14 | + |
| 15 | +- **Updated documentation & setup instructions:** |
| 16 | + <https://openeo.org/documentation/1.0/qgis/> |
| 17 | + |
| 18 | +The plugin requires **QGIS 3.40.0 or later** and is expected to be compatible with the upcoming **QGIS 4.0**. It can be downloaded from within QGIS, just search for 'openEO' in the plugin manager. |
| 19 | + |
| 20 | +## What’s New |
| 21 | + |
| 22 | +The rewritten plugin introduces a wide range of new features and improvements: |
| 23 | + |
| 24 | +- **Deep QGIS integration** |
| 25 | + - Fully integrated into the **QGIS Browser** for easy access |
| 26 | + |
| 27 | +- **Broad API & backend support** |
| 28 | + - Support for **all openEO API 1.x versions** |
| 29 | + - **openEO Hub** integration |
| 30 | + |
| 31 | +- **Improved authentication** |
| 32 | + - Support for **OpenID Connect** and **HTTP Basic authentication** |
| 33 | + - Generally improved and more robust authentication handling, including multi account support |
| 34 | + |
| 35 | +- **Explore and manage openEO resources** |
| 36 | + - Browse **Collections**, **batch jobs**, and **web services** |
| 37 | + - Allows for pagination and sorting |
| 38 | + |
| 39 | +- **Rich visualization capabilities** |
| 40 | + - Visualize batch job results: |
| 41 | + - GeoTIFF |
| 42 | + - netCDF (raster only) |
| 43 | + - GeoJSON |
| 44 | + - GeoParquet |
| 45 | + - Visualize web services: |
| 46 | + - XYZ |
| 47 | + - WMTS |
| 48 | + - Preview collections when supported by the backend (XYZ, WMTS) |
| 49 | + |
| 50 | +- **STAC integration** |
| 51 | + - Copy **STAC metadata URLs** and **STAC asset URLs** to easily load other assets via the QGIS layer manager (e.g. CSV) or the QGIS STAC integration (e.g. STAC Items for STAC Collections) |
| 52 | + |
| 53 | +- **Easy data download** |
| 54 | + - Download assets **all at once** or **individually** |
| 55 | + |
| 56 | +--- |
| 57 | + |
| 58 | +## Call for Testing & Feedback |
| 59 | + |
| 60 | +We consider the current version **stable and ready to be tested by a broader user audience**. Over the coming weeks, we will collect feedback and apply final refinements, with a **final release planned for the end of January or early February**. We also plan to present the QGIS plugin in one of the next openEO community meeting, please keep an eye on the [planned topics](https://openeo.org/meetings.html). |
| 61 | + |
| 62 | +**Your feedback is highly appreciated!** |
| 63 | +Please share issues, suggestions, or improvements via [**GitHub issues**](https://github.com/Open-EO/openeo-qgis-plugin/issues). |
| 64 | + |
| 65 | +## Acknowledgements |
| 66 | + |
| 67 | +The revival and complete reshaping of the openEO QGIS plugin was driven by **Caro Niebl**, an intern at [moreGeo](https://moregeo.it), who has dedicated the past weeks to rethinking and rebuilding the plugin from the ground up. |
| 68 | + |
| 69 | +This work was funded to a large extent by [VITO](https://vito.be). We would like to sincerely thank them for their support and contribution to the openEO ecosystem. |
| 70 | + |
| 71 | +## This and Next Year |
| 72 | + |
| 73 | +It has been a great year for openEO. CDSE is making openEO available to a large number of users, and more projects are adopting openEO with more launches expected next year. |
| 74 | + |
| 75 | +We are looking forward to next year, expecting new releases of the openEO API and openEO processes, and hopefully an adoption as OGC community standard. |
| 76 | + |
| 77 | +🎄 **Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to the openEO community!** |
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