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

[Nyall Dawson]

On Fri, 16 Jan 2026, 5:46 pm Stefanos Natsis, <uclaros at gmail.com> wrote:

> I thought since 3.20 all .0 versions are marked as "release candidate"
>

Yeah but this would be marking ALL 4.0.x releases as beta, not just 4.0.0

Nyall


> Stefanos
>
> On Fri, 16 Jan 2026 at 09:31, Régis Haubourg <regis.haubourg at gmail.com>
> 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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