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

Wed Jan 22 03:39:18 PST 2020

Is it time to send an update on Twitter yet? I don't see new installers at
https://qgis.org/downloads/

Regards,
Anita

On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 11:08 AM Mathieu Pellerin <nirvn.asia at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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