[Qgis-psc] [QGIS-Developer] Unscheduled 3.18.1 release?

[Alessandro Pasotti]

On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 8:15 AM Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> wrote:
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> So..... 3.18.0 is unfortunately proving to be a bit of a dud, with numerous critical issues including:
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> - georeferencer is broken: https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/41770 (fixed now)
> - a crash in the layer properties for point cloud layers: https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/41722 (fixed now)
> - Can't access rasters in geopackage through browser: https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/41860 (fixed now)
> - Crash when exporting DXF files: https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/41858 -- unfixed
> - A crash when opening the properties of a raster layer: https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/41834 (possibly a plugin issue, but more feedback is needed as it may be a widespread non-plugin issue (this code was changed just prior to release))
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> I think the severity of the georefencer and DXF crashes alone should warrant a speedy .1 release, given that they completely break some core GIS functionality.
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> (I think we should also consider raising a user-friendly warning message when a user tries to add a las or laz file and they don't have a pdal enabled build, as we are seeing lots of confusion about this situation too).
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> What's everyone's thoughts? Should we cut an unscheduled 3.18.1 release sometime next week after the DXF and raster properties crashes are fixed?
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> Nyall

+1, not sure if a week is enough though, the CI blackout has been
hiding a few issues that must be taken care of before we ship another
broken release.


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