Kurt,
you pretty much figure it out yourself. This is *only* an artifact to
workaround some RtD behavior about how the "stable" branch at
https://gdal.org/en/stable/ is kept in sync with the latest git
release/3.13 branch (we might have missed something, or that might be an
issue that has been solved). There might a delay of few hours between a
git commit and the corresponding run of the github CI job that does the
resync, depending on the intensity of the activity in the OSGeo/GDAL
repo, so the 2 hours delay you've noted seems OK to me
We haven't advertized the use of this branch for builds of the software
itself
Even
Le 25/06/2026 à 20:56, Kurt Schwehr via gdal-dev a écrit :
Hi all,
I'm being asked the meaning of
https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/tree/stable and realized I don't really
know what that branch is all about. I'm likely just missing some
documentation or discussion, so I apologize in advance.
I see in HOWTO-RELEASE, there is mention of `STABLE_BRANCH`. Is this
related?
https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/6a231dc29bfeb734227f7e646fe7c41b59e3167d/HOWTO-RELEASE#L105-L121
It points to
https://github.com/OSGeo/GDAL/settings/variables/actions/STABLE_BRANCH,
and it looks like git commits are from the current "STABLE_BRANCH"
(e.g., 3.13) are also pushed onto a "stable" branch:
https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/6a231dc29bfeb734227f7e646fe7c41b59e3167d/.github/workflows/auto_tag_stable.yml#L49-L50
There is a comment about a unique SHA so that ReadTheDocs gets run. It
looks that this is so that the "stable" Read the Docs link always has
the most recent text on the most current release branch whereas the
release/X.Y will be only updated when a release happens? That doesn't
seem right as right now stable is 4 hours ago and release/3/13 is 6
hours ago: https://app.readthedocs.org/projects/gdal/ e.g. for these:
https://gdal.org/en/latest/
https://gdal.org/en/stable/
https://gdal.org/en/release-3.13/
Do I have any of that correct and what is the semantic meaning of the
"stable" branch that users should read into it?
Thanks!
-Kurt
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