<div dir="auto">Hi Tim,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thanks for the heads up!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It is not clear to me which version will become the next LTR after 3.44.15 according to the suggested plan. Is it 3.44.16? 4.4.4? Other?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">One other thing that worries me a little is that the plan considers that the 4 "stability issues" are already reported, which I am not sure to what extent is the case.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Best,</div><div dir="auto">Stefanos</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 9, 2026, 11:57 AM Tim Sutton via QGIS-Developer <<a href="mailto:qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org">qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi all<div><br></div><div>Last night the PSC met and discussed this (and thanks to Denis for joining us to discuss).</div><div><br></div><div>We will share the full PSC meeting notes, but with regards to the LTR we propose to follow the following steps:</div><div><ul><li>Create a new <b>LTR 4.x Blocker</b> tag for issues</li><li>Ask developers, Giovanni Manghi, <span id="m_8969548591918225152gmail-docs-internal-guid-354f5357-7fff-872d-b632-496a18a71b85"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Andrea Giudiceandrea</span></span> to tag any breaking features with the new blocker tag so we have a clear sense of what needs to be done</li><li>Keep feature freeze until all blockers are gone. </li><li><font color="#ff0000"><b>Stick to current schedule but QGIS 4.2 will no longer be LTR</b></font></li><li>QGIS 4.4 to have a 6 week paid bug fixing period instead of 4 (and retain 6 week feature freeze)</li><li>Disable broken features if needed and communicate the feature regressions as part of the changelog</li><li>If there are still remaining blockers that we cannot simply disable at the end of the 6 weeks we will extend the release (last resort option)</li></ul><div><br></div></div><div>Does this sound good for everyone? </div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div>Tim</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Sep 1, 2026 at 1:31 PM Denis Rouzaud via QGIS-Developer <<a href="mailto:qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>It looks like there is an agreement of having 4.4.x as the next LTR.</div><div>If so, can we adapt the roadmap <a href="https://qgis.org/resources/roadmap/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://qgis.org/resources/roadmap/</a></div><div>So we can communicate (since LTR is supposed to happen in 3 weeks!)</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Denis</div><div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le mar. 4 nov. 2025 à 18:51, Jürgen E. Fischer via QGIS-Developer <<a href="mailto:qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org</a>> a écrit :<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi Greg,<br>
<br>
On Tue, 04. Nov 2025 at 08:59:06 -0500, Greg Troxel via QGIS-Developer wrote:<br>
> Yes, that makes sense and I understood the general plan. What I was not<br>
> clear about was whether, today, 3.44 *was* the LTR or just *is going to<br>
> be*. But from reading the roadmap, I convinced myself that today, 3.40<br>
> is LTR, and in late February, 3.44 will become LTR. Confusingly, 3.44<br>
> proclaims itself LTR in the splash screen, and it sort of is, kind of<br>
> like crown prince.<br>
<br>
Well, in my view the ltr is a branch that is longer maintained as others. So<br>
an ltr starts when it's branched off.<br>
<br>
We just build packages for the latest and long-term release and as that<br>
wouldn't make much sense while both are the same, we continue to build the<br>
previous ltr, while the new ltr is also the latest release.<br>
<br>
That way we still have two lines to build and the new ltr has some more time to<br>
replace the previous. That happens when the next version is released and takes<br>
its place as lastest release.<br>
<br>
That should also be the point were the splash is changed - which is usually<br>
with .4. That would have been - but should have happend with .8 on this<br>
branch. The splash change was meanwhile reverted. But I didn't bother to<br>
retag or do another point release just for this IMHO minor issue - the branch<br>
is a LTR branch.<br>
<br>
<br>
Jürgen<br>
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