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

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

On 2/18/26 05:05, Nyall Dawson via QGIS-PSC 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?

As a heavy profile user (>25 profiles; why is OpenActiveProfile folder at the bottom anyway :-)), AND someone switching between QGIS versions a lot(!), I prefer to fix this first... Seems a real blocker to me :-(

Just wondering, after reading https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/64752: is this only about the encoding of
~/.local/share/QGIS/QGIS3/profiles/<ALL PROFILES>/QGIS/QGIS3.ini   ?
or also about the (encoding? of) other files in the profile folder?

You probably looked, but IF only about the ini file, it's not possible to create a QGIS4.ini (or just QGIS.ini) only
~/.local/share/QGIS/QGIS3/profiles/<ALL PROFILES>/QGIS/QGIS4.ini   ?

But I reckon you are right :-)
So we copy the full profiles folder to
~/.local/share/QGIS/QGIS4/profiles/<ALL PROFILES>/QGIS/QGIS4.ini  ?

Doing that once, yes?

Is there maybe an easy way to check (after the one-time copy) if a QGIS3 profile is newer then (or updated) the QGIS4 profile? And IF so let the user decide if we want to 'refresh/copy' the QGIS3->QGIS4 (1 profile folder) again?

I'm thinking about peeps like me, who probably have to work some time in QGIS3 (because certain clients will stick to 3.40 or 3.44 for some time).

Anyway: THANKS for feeling responsible for this!

Regards,

Richard Duivenvoorde