First of all: If you are just a regular user of OctoPrint who doesn’t know what git is and has never checked out OctoPrint’s source code to look at the code and/or make changes on it, this likely doesn’t affect you and you can stop to read here 😊
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://octoprint.org/blog/2025/09/03/new-branching-model-is-now-active