Hello QGIS users, I just read the messages about the latest release of the QGIS 3.18.0 and QGIS 3.16.4 (LTR) packages and must admit that now I am a bit confused. A couple of days ago I already made an update of my existing QGIS installation (3.10 and 3.14) using the network installer osgeo4w-setup-x86_64.exe which I downloaded from the QGIS homepage. As usual I selected 'Advanced Installation', the update run without any problems, and at the end I got the updated QGIS versions 3.18.0 and 3.16.4. But now I read this (e.g.):
Long story short: you cannot upgrade from old installs and have to remove and reinstall or use a separate directory. As the new OSGeo4W only supports 64bit the default root directory was changed to C:\OSGeo4W, which might help with that if you were on 64bit earlier. Also note that it now only has one version of Python - namely 3.9, which doesn't support Windows 7 anymore. Other updates include Qt 5.15, GDAL 3.2, PROJ 7.2 and SAGA 7.8. What does it mean, - you cannot upgrade from old installs (I did it with success as far I could see. My QGIS-projects set-up with older QGIS versions are running obviously without any problems. - it now only has one version of Python - namely 3.9 (I checked my QGIS installation, there is no Python 3.9). - Other updates include ... SAGA 7.8 (in the package list I could only see SAGA 2.3.2 LTR and SAGA 2.1.2.) It would be great if somebody can explain what these messages like mentioned above are about. Thank you very much. Martin -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
