[gdal-dev] Understanding GDAL's versioning/release process

[Owen Varley]

Hi all,

I've been using GDAL for the past couple of months and I have a question about how releases are managed that I can't figure out from trawling GitHub.

There's a pull request (#1621) that includes a commit (https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/1621/commits/bcaeb975a703bdec49aff267a1a7a8f0c35ab5f2) that was merged into master on 4 Jun 2019. The commit has been tagged 3.0.3 and 2.4.4, however, when running gdal v3.0.3 or v3.0.4 the changes introduced by the commit don't seem to have taken affect. Having read through the v3.0.3 release notes (https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.0.3/gdal/NEWS) I can't find any mention of #1621 being included.

My question is, if the commit was merged into master on 4 Jun 2019, would it not automatically be included within any releases posts that date? If not, how do you determine when/if the commit has been released?

Many thanks,

Owen
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