[QGIS-Developer] Status of 3.44 becoming LTR?

[Jürgen E. Fischer]

Hi Greg,

On Tue, 04. Nov 2025 at 08:59:06 -0500, Greg Troxel via QGIS-Developer wrote:
> Yes, that makes sense and I understood the general plan.  What I was not
> clear about was whether, today, 3.44 *was* the LTR or just *is going to
> be*.  But from reading the roadmap, I convinced myself that today, 3.40
> is LTR, and in late February, 3.44 will become LTR.  Confusingly, 3.44
> proclaims itself LTR in the splash screen, and it sort of is, kind of
> like crown prince.

Well, in my view the ltr is a branch that is longer maintained as others.  So
an ltr starts when it's branched off.

We just build packages for the latest and long-term release and as that
wouldn't make much sense while both are the same, we continue to build the
previous ltr, while the new ltr is also the latest release.

That way we still have two lines to build and the new ltr has some more time to
replace the previous.  That happens when the next version is released and takes
its place as lastest release.

That should also be the point were the splash is changed - which is usually
with .4.  That would have been - but should have happend with .8 on this
branch.  The splash change was meanwhile reverted.  But I didn't bother to
retag or do another point release just for this IMHO minor issue - the branch
is a LTR branch.


Jürgen

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