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

[DelazJ]

Hi all,

Thanks Mathieu. Should it be 3.10.2 or 3.10.3? Asking because those who
have already downloaded the broken 3.10.2 may not think to update.

Regards,
Harrissou

Le mer. 22 janv. 2020 à 11:05, Mathieu Pellerin <nirvn.asia at gmail.com> a
écrit :

> 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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>>> --
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>>>
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