[QGIS-Developer] Limiting 3.44 backports?

[Nyall Dawson]

On Wed, 10 Jun 2026 at 11:22, Greg Troxel via QGIS-Developer <
qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>
> Nyall Dawson via QGIS-Developer <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> writes:
>
> > I noticed a lot of bug fixes aren't getting the 3.44 backport label.
> > Is this an intentional decision now? Are we at the stage where we
> > should be limiting 3.44 backports to critical fixes only?
>
> 1) Have we annnounced: 4.0.2 is the standard approach.  If you haven't
> upgraded from 3.44.x to 4.0.2, you're behind.  In other words, when
> someone say "I want to run qgis but I don't know what version - tell
> me", what do we say?

No, we very strongly say "stick with 3.44"!

>
> 2) Have we blessed a new LTR?

No. (And I would suggest we DON'T tag 4.2 as LTR... but that's a completely
different discussion 😜 )



>
> Unless the answers  are reliably "x, where x is newer than 3.44" and
> "yes", then I think it makes sense to maintain 3.44.x.
>
> For getting work done, I'm using 3.44.x.  I'm pretty sure most people
> would advise to use that.   So I think the answers to 1/2 are "no, and
> 3.44 is still  what people should run"
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