<div dir="ltr"><div>Aha, thanks for clarifying that!</div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Stefanos</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 16 Jan 2026 at 09:55, Nyall Dawson <<a href="mailto:nyall.dawson@gmail.com">nyall.dawson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 16 Jan 2026, 5:46 pm Stefanos Natsis, <<a href="mailto:uclaros@gmail.com" target="_blank">uclaros@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I thought since 3.20 all .0 versions are marked as "release candidate"</div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Yeah but this would be marking ALL 4.0.x releases as beta, not just 4.0.0</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Nyall</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Stefanos</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 16 Jan 2026 at 09:31, Régis Haubourg <<a href="mailto:regis.haubourg@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">regis.haubourg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div dir="auto">Well, my IT department updates packages in our software portal whenever they ... want or users ask. <br><br>Maybe we should explicitly name 4.0 "release candidate" in the package names and our communication if 4.0 is that broken. <br>Regis</div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto">Le 16 janvier 2026 01:49:16 GMT+01:00, Nyall Dawson via QGIS-PSC <<a href="mailto:qgis-psc@lists.osgeo.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">qgis-psc@lists.osgeo.org</a>> a écrit :</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><br><br>On Thu, 15 Jan 2026 at 19:30, Andreas Neumann <<a href="mailto:a.neumann@carto.net" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">a.neumann@carto.net</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> Hi all,<br>><br>> Regarding testing/bugfixing.<br>><br>> 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.<div><br></div><div>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!)</div><div><br></div><div>Nyall</div><div><br>><br>> Andreas<br>><br>> On 2026-01-15 08:01, Stefanos Natsis via QGIS-PSC wrote:<br>><br>> 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.<br>> <br>> Best<br>> Stefanos<br>> <br>><br>> On Thu, 15 Jan 2026 at 08:37, Nyall Dawson via QGIS-Developer <<a href="mailto:qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> On Thu, 15 Jan 2026 at 16:00, Andreas Neumann <<a href="mailto:andreas@qgis.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">andreas@qgis.org</a>> wrote:<br>> ><br>> > +1 - to have a voice from PSC ;-)<br>><br>> Perfect, thanks Andreas!<br>><br>> Nyall<br>><br>> ><br>> > Andreas<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> > On Thu, 15 Jan 2026 at 03:50, Nyall Dawson via QGIS-Developer <<a href="mailto:qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org</a>> wrote:<br>> >><br>> >> On Wed, 14 Jan 2026 at 01:23, Martin Dobias <<a href="mailto:wonder.sk@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">wonder.sk@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> >> ><br>> >> > Hi all<br>> >> ><br>> >> > On Thu, Jan 8, 2026 at 10:21 PM Nyall Dawson via QGIS-PSC <<a href="mailto:qgis-psc@lists.osgeo.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">qgis-psc@lists.osgeo.org</a>> wrote:<br>> >> >><br>> >> >><br>> >> >> I'm wondering if we could possibly push back the feature freeze date<br>> >> >> by 1-1.5 weeks for this cycle?<br>> >> >><br>> >> ><br>> >> > +1 from me.<br>> >><br>> >> So do we consider this locked in now? Freeze moved to 27th Jan?<br>> >><br>> >> Nyall<br>> >> _______________________________________________<br>> >> QGIS-Developer mailing list<br>> >> <a href="mailto:QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>> >> List info: <a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer</a><br>> >> Unsubscribe: <a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer</a><br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> > --<br>> ><br>> > --<br>> > Andreas Neumann<br>> > <a href="http://QGIS.ORG" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">QGIS.ORG</a> board member (treasurer)<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> QGIS-Developer mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>> List info: <a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer</a><br>> Unsubscribe: <a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer</a><br>><br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> QGIS-PSC mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:QGIS-PSC@lists.osgeo.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">QGIS-PSC@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>> <a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-psc" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-psc</a><br>><br>><br></div></div>
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