[QGIS-Developer] [Qgis-psc] Push back feature freeze by 1/1.5 weeks?

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi,

I would label it "Release candidate" until 4.2 is released.

Andreas

On 2026-01-16 08:31, Régis Haubourg wrote:

> Well, my IT department updates  packages in our software portal 
> whenever they ... want or users ask.
> 
> Maybe we should explicitly name 4.0 "release candidate" in the package 
> names and our communication if 4.0 is that broken.
> Regis
> 
> Le 16 janvier 2026 01:49:16 GMT+01:00, Nyall Dawson via QGIS-PSC 
> <qgis-psc at lists.osgeo.org> a écrit :
> 
>> On Thu, 15 Jan 2026 at 19:30, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net> 
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> Regarding testing/bugfixing.
>>> 
>>> I hope and I assume that companies and organizations wouldn't have 
>>> the idea to base their mission critical work on a .0 release ... but 
>>> rather wait for the next LT version or a couple of patch releases 
>>> until QGIS 4.x can mature further.
>> 
>> Definitely -- it's not going to be anywhere NEAR enterprise ready 🤣. 
>> (I just ran into the known issue where the qt6 builds can corrupt your 
>> user profiles... someone should probably look into that one sometime!)
>> 
>> Nyall
>> 
>>> 
>>> Andreas
>>> 
>>> On 2026-01-15 08:01, Stefanos Natsis via QGIS-PSC wrote:
>>> 
>>> I'm also +1, however I'm slightly worried that we should somehow 
>>> compensate for the reduced testing/bugfixing time of this 
>>> feature-rich release.
>>> 
>>> Best
>>> Stefanos
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Thu, 15 Jan 2026 at 08:37, Nyall Dawson via QGIS-Developer 
>>> <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Thu, 15 Jan 2026 at 16:00, Andreas Neumann <andreas at qgis.org> 
>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> +1 - to have a voice from PSC ;-)
>>> 
>>> Perfect, thanks Andreas!
>>> 
>>> Nyall
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Andreas
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Thu, 15 Jan 2026 at 03:50, Nyall Dawson via QGIS-Developer 
>>>> <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Wed, 14 Jan 2026 at 01:23, Martin Dobias <wonder.sk at gmail.com> 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi all
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Thu, Jan 8, 2026 at 10:21 PM Nyall Dawson via QGIS-PSC 
>>>>>> <qgis-psc at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I'm wondering if we could possibly push back the feature freeze 
>>>>>>> date
>>>>>>> by 1-1.5 weeks for this cycle?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> +1 from me.
>>>>> 
>>>>> So do we consider this locked in now? Freeze moved to 27th Jan?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Nyall
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