<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi Jürgen,</div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 6 Nov 2026 at 12:52, Jürgen E. Fischer via QGIS-Developer <<a href="mailto:qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org">qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org</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">
The branch is what gets long-time care and therefore it gets the ltr tag when<br>
it's branched off.<br>
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That it doesn't replace the old LTR in the package repositories right away is<br>
just a technicallity. </blockquote><div><br></div><div>I humbly believe it's the other way round: The technicality here is the fact that the 4.4 branch will be tagged LTR when it's branched off.</div><div>User's don't know (or care) about LTR branch, they know a version is LTR when they see a version number on the LTR column in the roadmap (4.4.4) and a download link for it.</div><div>Obligatory XKCD <a href="https://xkcd.com/2501/">https://xkcd.com/2501/</a> :D</div><div><br></div><div>My expectation according to [1] was that the change to the schedule would be that if there are pending blockers by 2027-03-05 then the LTR column on the roadmap would become 3.44.20 instead of 4.4.4, potentially delaying the 4.6.0 release.</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="https://blog.qgis.org/2026/10/03/release-schedule-changes-for-next-qgis-ltr/">https://blog.qgis.org/2026/10/03/release-schedule-changes-for-next-qgis-ltr/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Stefanos</div></div></div>