[QGIS-Developer] Fwd: Urgent: Remove windows 3.10.2 installer from site

[Mathieu Pellerin]

Matthias,

Good idea.

Math

On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 5:02 PM Matthias Kuhn <matthias at opengis.ch> wrote:

> Hi Mathieu,
>
> Thanks a lot. It reads very well!
>
> Something that I'd like to add is that in case of still finding a bug,
> users should file issues and to mention proximity of LTR replacement.
> If you still happen to find QGIS behaving in an unexpected way, please let
> us know on https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues
> <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues&sa=D&source=hangouts&ust=1579773605204000&usg=AFQjCNHP21SO7MPYwrn023vHOeZwMUBKuQ>
> as always. We are very happy that QGIS 3.10 is now in shape to replace 3.4
> as LTR in a month time.
>
> Bests
> Matthias
>
>
> On 1/22/20 10:58 AM, Mathieu Pellerin wrote:
>
> Paolo, here's the draft blog post:
>
> *Public Service Announcement: Update to the latest point release now*
> ------
> QGIS users who have adopted the 3.10 version when initially released at
> the end of October 2019 have likely noticed a sharp drop in reliability.
> The underlying issues have now been addressed in 3.10.2, all users are
> advised to update *now*.
>
> When QGIS 3.10 was first released in the end of October 2019, a pair of
> libraries – namely GDAL and PROJ – were updated to their next-generation
> versions. The advantages are plenty: GeoPDF export[1] support, more
> accurate coordinate transformation, etc. For those interested, more
> technical information on this is available here[2].
>
> The update of these crucial libraries led to a number of regressions.
> While we expected some issues to arise, the seriousness of the disruption
> caught us off guard. Yet, it was also somewhat inevitable: QGIS is the
> first large GIS project to expose these next-generation libraries to the
> masses. The large number of QGIS users across the globe were essentially
> stress testing both new code within QGIS as well as the libraries
> themselves.
>
> Thanks to dedicated users taking time to file in report and the community
> helping out as well as our project sponsors for allowing us to fund
> development time, developers have been able to fix all known regressions in
> both in QGIS as well as underlying GDAL and PROJ libraries, benefiting a
> large number of open source projects.
>
> As a result of this collective effort by the community, QGIS 3.10.2 is now
> back to being the reliable and stable GIS software we all love. As such, we
> cannot stress enough the important of updating now.
>
> Once again, thanks to our community of testers, sponsors, and developers
> for their countless hours and efforts in making QGIS better.
>
> Happy mapping!
>
> [1] https://north-road.com/2019/09/03/qgis-3-10-loves-geopdf/
> [2] https://gdalbarn.com/
>
> On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 9:56 AM Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>
> wrote:
>
>> Fully agreed. Mathieu, would you like to write it?
>> Thanks.
>>
>> On 21 January 2020 06:39:08 GMT+04:00, Mathieu Pellerin <
>> nirvn.asia at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> +100 on all that's been said here.
>>>
>>> Also, once 3.10.2 is updated to include the updated packages &
>>> above-referred fix, I'd suggest writing a QGIS.org blog post to inform
>>> users of the worthiness of updating to 3.10.2(.2) *ASAP*, and expand a bit
>>> on why 3.10.0/.1 were such rough releases. We can finish the post by
>>> thanking users that have reported bugs (an inevitable nightmare to go
>>> through as QGIS was exposing brand new GDAL3/PROJ6 versions to the masses).
>>> IMHO, we should not skip this communication to our users.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 7:27 AM Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Also, we better wait for a fix for
>>>> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/33902 (incoming)...
>>>>
>>>> Gosh, will the nightmare ever end... Let's agree never to change
>>>> anything in gdal or proj or qgis ever again ;)
>>>>
>>>> Nyall
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>>>> From: Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com>
>>>> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 at 06:28
>>>> Subject: Urgent: Remove windows 3.10.2 installer from site
>>>> To: qgis-developer <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Can we please remove the 3.10.2 installer from the website as a matter
>>>> of urgency? This installer was released using the older gdal 3.0.2 and
>>>> proj 6.2 versions, which directly lead to crashes and reprojection
>>>> failures in QGIS.
>>>>
>>>> QGIS ********************SHOULD NEVER EVER*********************** be
>>>> used with gdal >= 3 and gdal < 3.0.3 or proj >6 and proj < 6.3.0.
>>>>
>>>> This combination is a world of hurt for users :(
>>>>
>>>> Tickets filed at https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ticket/618, and
>>>> https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ticket/617, and later today I'm going
>>>> to commit cmake blocks which will completely prevent compilation under
>>>> the affected gdal/proj versions.
>>>>
>>>> Nyall
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>> Please excuse my brevity.
>>
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