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

[Marco Bernasocchi]

Yes that sounds like a good plan to me too.

Marco Bernasocchi

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On Fri, 16 Jan 2026, 11:10 Stefanos Natsis via QGIS-PSC, <
qgis-psc at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> Aha, thanks for clarifying that!
> I'd be +1 for extending the "release candidate" status to more patch
> releases. We could reconsider its removal before each patch release of the
> 4.0. cycle, though, based on the current state at the time.
>
> Stefanos
>
> On Fri, 16 Jan 2026 at 09:55, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> 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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