[QGIS-Developer] QGIS version 3.98 instead of 3.99 ?

[Andrea Giudiceandrea]

Il 25/06/2025 09:22, Richard Duivenvoorde via QGIS-Developer ha scritto:
> Hi Devs,
> 
> I see we now use 3.99 as dev version for QGIS.
> But 99% of devs have max version 3.99 in their metadata.txt
> So 99% of my plugins are now 'now available', see screenshot

I guess you will also see that, running QGIS 3.99.0-Master (either Qt5 
or Qt6), the official plugins repository is "unavailable".

As explained in the issue report [1], it seems to me the issues are 
related to the PR "Make QGIS 2.99 compatible with 3.0 plugins by 
introducing PyQGIS API version" [2], which makes QGIS 3.99.0-Master 
behave like it was already QGIS 4.0 and thus:

- it considers incompatible all the Python core plugins, which doesn't 
have a max version tag (since in this case they are considered as being 
tagged with max version 3.99)

-  it considers incompatible all the already installed Python external 
plugins that are tagged with max version 3.99 or lower

- it tries to retrieve the plugins' list from the URL 
https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/plugins.xml?qgis=4.0 , which is 
obviously currently unavailable yet,
instead of https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/plugins.xml?qgis=3.99 , 
which is correctly available. So it's not possible to install any 
external plugin from the official plugins repository.

Moreover, the plugin list retrieved from the official plugins repository 
server (and - it looks like - the plugins website, too) doesn't contain 
any information about the plugins compatibility with Qt6.

The info about the Qt6 compatibility of each plugin is currently only 
inside the plugin's metadata.txt file, so, even if the previous issues 
were not effective, a QGIS Qt6 user can be aware about the plugin's QT6 
compatibility only after actually downloading / installing the plugin...

It seems to me the PR [3] proposed by Jürgen only actually fixes the 
issue with core plugins.

Regards.

Andrea


[1] https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/62359
[2] https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/5904
[3] https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/62361