You made a mistake translating/editing:
„the important of“ ==> „the importance of“

As such, we cannot stress enough the important of updating now.
==>
As such, we cannot stress enough the importance of updating now.


Posting that would be embarrassing



Von: QGIS-Developer [mailto:qgis-developer-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] Im Auftrag 
von Mathieu Pellerin
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 22. Januar 2020 10:58
An: Paolo Cavallini <cavall...@faunalia.it>; qgis-developer 
<qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org>
Betreff: Re: [QGIS-Developer] Fwd: Urgent: Remove windows 3.10.2 installer from 
site

Paolo, here's the draft blog post:

*Public Service Announcement: Update to the latest point release now*
------
QGIS users who have adopted the 3.10 version when initially released at the end 
of October 2019 have likely noticed a sharp drop in reliability. The underlying 
issues have now been addressed in 3.10.2, all users are advised to update *now*.

When QGIS 3.10 was first released in the end of October 2019, a pair of 
libraries – namely GDAL and PROJ – were updated to their next-generation 
versions. The advantages are plenty: GeoPDF export[1] support, more accurate 
coordinate transformation, etc. For those interested, more technical 
information on this is available here[2].

The update of these crucial libraries led to a number of regressions. While we 
expected some issues to arise, the seriousness of the disruption caught us off 
guard. Yet, it was also somewhat inevitable: QGIS is the first large GIS 
project to expose these next-generation libraries to the masses. The large 
number of QGIS users across the globe were essentially stress testing both new 
code within QGIS as well as the libraries themselves.

Thanks to dedicated users taking time to file in report and the community 
helping out as well as our project sponsors for allowing us to fund development 
time, developers have been able to fix all known regressions in both in QGIS as 
well as underlying GDAL and PROJ libraries, benefiting a large number of open 
source projects.

As a result of this collective effort by the community, QGIS 3.10.2 is now back 
to being the reliable and stable GIS software we all love. As such, we cannot 
stress enough the important of updating now.

Once again, thanks to our community of testers, sponsors, and developers for 
their countless hours and efforts in making QGIS better.

Happy mapping!

[1] https://north-road.com/2019/09/03/qgis-3-10-loves-geopdf/
[2] https://gdalbarn.com/

On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 9:56 AM Paolo Cavallini 
<cavall...@faunalia.it<mailto:cavall...@faunalia.it>> wrote:
Fully agreed. Mathieu, would you like to write it?
Thanks.
On 21 January 2020 06:39:08 GMT+04:00, Mathieu Pellerin 
<nirvn.a...@gmail.com<mailto:nirvn.a...@gmail.com>> wrote:
+100 on all that's been said here.

Also, once 3.10.2 is updated to include the updated packages & above-referred 
fix, I'd suggest writing a QGIS.org blog post to inform users of the worthiness 
of updating to 3.10.2(.2) *ASAP*, and expand a bit on why 3.10.0/.1 were such 
rough releases. We can finish the post by thanking users that have reported 
bugs (an inevitable nightmare to go through as QGIS was exposing brand new 
GDAL3/PROJ6 versions to the masses). IMHO, we should not skip this 
communication to our users.

On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 7:27 AM Nyall Dawson 
<nyall.daw...@gmail.com<mailto:nyall.daw...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Also, we better wait for a fix for
https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/33902 (incoming)...

Gosh, will the nightmare ever end... Let's agree never to change
anything in gdal or proj or qgis ever again ;)

Nyall


---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Nyall Dawson <nyall.daw...@gmail.com<mailto:nyall.daw...@gmail.com>>
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 at 06:28
Subject: Urgent: Remove windows 3.10.2 installer from site
To: qgis-developer 
<qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org<mailto:qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org>>


Can we please remove the 3.10.2 installer from the website as a matter
of urgency? This installer was released using the older gdal 3.0.2 and
proj 6.2 versions, which directly lead to crashes and reprojection
failures in QGIS.

QGIS ********************SHOULD NEVER EVER*********************** be
used with gdal >= 3 and gdal < 3.0.3 or proj >6 and proj < 6.3.0.

This combination is a world of hurt for users :(

Tickets filed at https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ticket/618, and
https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ticket/617, and later today I'm going
to commit cmake blocks which will completely prevent compilation under
the affected gdal/proj versions.

Nyall
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