Last night we reached another milestone in the QGIS project, releasing a bug fix for our stable version and the next point release in our unstable series. The unstable release adds many new features including support for personal geospatial datastores in portable sqlite databases. This opens up a whole new world of possibilities since it now makes it very easy to ship rich datasets to people within a single container. The windows builds of QGIS now include a standalone installer, which I have packaged with MrSid support (with agreement with the vendors). We are working on obtaining similar agreement for ECW support.

Now we can start plugging away at the next point release which will no doubt have may more nifty new goodies. You can read the full release notices here.