[Qgis-psc] Realistically, we can't release in 2 days 😱

[Régis Haubourg]

Hi all,

I support the idea of fixing this one before releasing. A bug that 
destroys other profiles that are used for production is a real no-go, 
that would be unprofessional to release this, even with warnings. Not 
everyone keeps its profile under version control :)

Best regards,

Régis Haubourg
Elected member at the Program Steering Comitee of QGIS.org.
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On 18/02/2026 08:52, Richard Duivenvoorde via QGIS-PSC wrote:
> On 2/18/26 05:05, Nyall Dawson via QGIS-PSC wrote:
>> Hey list,
>>
>> Everyone who has been actively testing 4.0 nightlies has probably 
>> seen this coming, but we're just NOT ready to publicly release 4.0 on 
>> the 20th. Aside from anything else, we still don't have a fix for the 
>> profile corruption bug* which should be a blocker alone. With this 
>> one a user's 3.x profile can get completely corrupted, and/or cause 
>> hangs on loading 3.x/4.0.
>>
>> What should we do?
>
> As a heavy profile user (>25 profiles; why is OpenActiveProfile folder 
> at the bottom anyway :-)), AND someone switching between QGIS versions 
> a lot(!), I prefer to fix this first... Seems a real blocker to me :-(
>
> Just wondering, after reading https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/64752: 
> is this only about the encoding of
> ~/.local/share/QGIS/QGIS3/profiles/<ALL PROFILES>/QGIS/QGIS3.ini   ?
> or also about the (encoding? of) other files in the profile folder?
>
> You probably looked, but IF only about the ini file, it's not possible 
> to create a QGIS4.ini (or just QGIS.ini) only
> ~/.local/share/QGIS/QGIS3/profiles/<ALL PROFILES>/QGIS/QGIS4.ini   ?
>
> But I reckon you are right :-)
> So we copy the full profiles folder to
> ~/.local/share/QGIS/QGIS4/profiles/<ALL PROFILES>/QGIS/QGIS4.ini  ?
>
> Doing that once, yes?
>
> Is there maybe an easy way to check (after the one-time copy) if a 
> QGIS3 profile is newer then (or updated) the QGIS4 profile? And IF so 
> let the user decide if we want to 'refresh/copy' the QGIS3->QGIS4 (1 
> profile folder) again?
>
> I'm thinking about peeps like me, who probably have to work some time 
> in QGIS3 (because certain clients will stick to 3.40 or 3.44 for some 
> time).
>
> Anyway: THANKS for feeling responsible for this!
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Duivenvoorde
>
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