[QGIS-Developer] Status of 3.44 becoming LTR?

[Denis Rouzaud]

Hi,

It looks like there is an agreement of having 4.4.x as the next LTR.
If so, can we adapt the roadmap https://qgis.org/resources/roadmap/
So we can communicate (since LTR is supposed to happen in 3 weeks!)

Cheers,
Denis

Le mar. 4 nov. 2025 à 18:51, Jürgen E. Fischer via QGIS-Developer <
qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> a écrit :

> Hi Greg,
>
> On Tue, 04. Nov 2025 at 08:59:06 -0500, Greg Troxel via QGIS-Developer
> wrote:
> > Yes, that makes sense and I understood the general plan.  What I was not
> > clear about was whether, today, 3.44 *was* the LTR or just *is going to
> > be*.  But from reading the roadmap, I convinced myself that today, 3.40
> > is LTR, and in late February, 3.44 will become LTR.  Confusingly, 3.44
> > proclaims itself LTR in the splash screen, and it sort of is, kind of
> > like crown prince.
>
> Well, in my view the ltr is a branch that is longer maintained as others.
> So
> an ltr starts when it's branched off.
>
> We just build packages for the latest and long-term release and as that
> wouldn't make much sense while both are the same, we continue to build the
> previous ltr, while the new ltr is also the latest release.
>
> That way we still have two lines to build and the new ltr has some more
> time to
> replace the previous.  That happens when the next version is released and
> takes
> its place as lastest release.
>
> That should also be the point were the splash is changed - which is usually
> with .4.  That would have been - but should have happend with .8 on this
> branch.  The splash change was meanwhile reverted.  But I didn't bother to
> retag or do another point release just for this IMHO minor issue - the
> branch
> is a LTR branch.
>
>
> Jürgen
>
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