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

Wed Jan 22 02:08:22 PST 2020

I think the QGIS twitter account already mentioned that the 3.10.2
installer had been retired due to issues and re-build.

On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 5:07 PM DelazJ <delazj at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>>>> Please excuse my brevity.
>>>>
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