On Mon, Apr 04, 2022 at 08:35:55 -0700, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
On Mon, Apr 04, 2022 at 10:35:25AM +0200, Peter Krempa wrote:
As of April 23 2022, Ubuntu 20.04 will be out for two years, which means we no longer have to support Ubuntu 18.04 along with qemu-2.11 shipped with it.
This then brings the minimum qemu version we have to support to qemu-3.1:
Debian 10/Stable: 3.1 OpenSUSE Leap 15.3: 5.2 Ubuntu 20.04: 4.2 RHEL/Centos 8.4: 4.2
Next event in this space will be 2023/07/06 when Debian 11 will be out for two years.
It's actually much earlier than that :)
Quoting our platform support policy[1]:
The project aims to support the most recent major version at all times. Support for the previous major version will be dropped 2 years after the new major version is released or when the vendor itself drops support, whichever comes first. In this context, third-party efforts to extend the lifetime of a distro are not considered, even when they are endorsed by the vendor (e.g. Debian LTS); the same is true of repositories that contain packages backported from later releases (e.g. Debian backports).
Looking at the Debian wiki[2] we can see
Version Code name Release date End of life date 10 Buster 2019-07-06 ~2022-08
which is consistent with what's written a few lines down
Reminder: the EOL date for the stable release is the date of the next stable release plus one year.
Oh, I didn't notice that and somehow assumed that we'd have to apply our policy of 2 years.
So come August we'll be able to bump the minimum QEMU version further, all the way to 4.2 :)
That is awesome news. I'm really looking forward to delete all pre-blockdev disk code!!