[QGIS-Developer] Status of 3.44 becoming LTR?

[Andreas Neumann]

See also
https://blog.qgis.org/2025/10/07/update-on-qgis-4-0-release-schedule-and-ltr-plans/
where this was communicated.

Andreas

On Sun, 2 Nov 2025 at 16:44, Greg Troxel via QGIS-Developer <
qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> I saw 3.40.12 and updated pkgsrc, and the .12 being pretty high made me
> guess that there was a new LTR and I should look at it.  I went to read
>
>   https://qgis.org/resources/roadmap/
>
> and after staring at it for a long time, my take is:
>
>    - 3.44 is *going to be* LTR, but will not be blessed as such until
>      3.44.8 in February
>
>    - What is unusual is that LTR will be 3.44.8, not 3.46.4, because
>      there was no 3.46 in 2025-10, but we're still holding off until
>      February, because some blend of
>        + LTR promotion is always February
>        + LTR promotion of a future-LTR happens only when the next branch
>         .0 comes out.
>
>    - 4.2 will become LTR in 2026-10, which is out of cycle, and probably
>      we'll then see 4.8 in 2027-10 with LTRs happening on October
>      instead of February.  (That's an observation not a complaint.)
>
> If I'm confused a clue would be appreciated, and if 99.9% of the list
> was already super clear sorry for the noise.
>
> Separately, given that pkgsrc is on the fence between "latest release is
> fine" and "LTR is more stable and better", I should be planning to
> switch from 3.40.x to 3.44.x, and any time between now and just after
> the LTR-blessing of 3.44 on 2026-02-20 is a reasonable time to do that.
> (I am building 3.44.4 from source and it's halfway through.)
>
> My impression is that 3.44 is entirely stable and that for normal users
> (not trying to coordinate with other packaging systems in big
> organizations, and not having the LTS "running old code on purpose is
> good" outlook), there is no real reason to stay on 3.40.
>
> It is clear that I should try to package 4.0, or even 3.99, but as a
> separate/experimental package, to surface and resolve qt6 issues.
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Andreas Neumann
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