[QGIS-Developer] [Qgis-psc] Realistically, we can't release in 2 days 😱

[Mathieu Pellerin]

I'd be -1 on undetermined delay, and generally not super enthusiastic about
a further delay to 4.0. If we want to give ourselves say one more week to
address really bad issues (like the one Nyall raised), let's set a firm
date attached to an unbreakable vow that will be the date we release? :)

As was pointed out by Andreas, while we should strive to provide the best
possible experience for people who will jump onto 4.0, there's also plenty
of understanding that 4.0 will be more disruptive than going to a new point
release within our 3.X release cycles.


On Wed, Feb 18, 2026 at 2:33 PM Andreas Neumann via QGIS-PSC <
qgis-psc at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I think in this case we should delay the release until this serious issue
> can be resolved and was properly tested.
>
> Nyall - are you available to finish the fix for the issue around the
> profile corruption issue? It can be handled through our bug fixing
> initiative. I would appreciate it a lot!
>
> We told everyone that QGIS 4.0 isn't ready for production use, so people
> probably aren't really counting on using QGIS 4.0 anytime soon.
>
> Andreas
>
> On 2026-02-18 05:05, Nyall Dawson via QGIS-Developer wrote:
>
> Hey list,
>
> Everyone who has been actively testing 4.0 nightlies has probably seen
> this coming, but we're just NOT ready to publicly release 4.0 on the 20th.
> Aside from anything else, we still don't have a fix for the profile
> corruption bug* which should be a blocker alone. With this one a user's 3.x
> profile can get completely corrupted, and/or cause hangs on loading
> 3.x/4.0.
>
> What should we do?
>
> Nyall
>
> * I've been working on a fix in https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/64752,
> but it's not ready yet, and will need some decent testing after it lands
> before I'm confident we've resolved this one.
>
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