[libvirt] Recommendations for Libvirt LTS release
Hi, Debian is about to enter it's freeze for the Stretch release in November and we will support the libvirt version that is in Stretch for at least 5 years. The upstream version of libvirt at this point will likely be 2.4.0. Are any other distros about to pick a version around that time so we can possibly join forces? Are there any recommendations to rather pick another version due to planned features/fixes/refactorings that haven't made it to the list yet? As with previous versions I will feed back patches to the -maint branch and hope to cut point releases as were currently doing with 0.9.12 but if other distros (apart from Debians downstreams) would use the same version this would be a plus. Cheers, -- Guido
On 01.10.2016 11:15, Guido Günther wrote:
Hi, Debian is about to enter it's freeze for the Stretch release in November and we will support the libvirt version that is in Stretch for at least 5 years.
The upstream version of libvirt at this point will likely be 2.4.0. Are any other distros about to pick a version around that time so we can possibly join forces? Are there any recommendations to rather pick another version due to planned features/fixes/refactorings that haven't made it to the list yet?
None that I know of. I mean, I use Gentoo and here I get rolling updates, so nothing like LTS.
As with previous versions I will feed back patches to the -maint branch and hope to cut point releases as were currently doing with 0.9.12 but if other distros (apart from Debians downstreams) would use the same version this would be a plus.
I think this is the best strategy and I guess if you start the next -maint branch other distros might pick it up too and help you with that later. Michal
On 10/01/2016 05:15 AM, Guido Günther wrote:
Hi, Debian is about to enter it's freeze for the Stretch release in November and we will support the libvirt version that is in Stretch for at least 5 years.
The upstream version of libvirt at this point will likely be 2.4.0. Are any other distros about to pick a version around that time so we can possibly join forces? Are there any recommendations to rather pick another version due to planned features/fixes/refactorings that haven't made it to the list yet?
As with previous versions I will feed back patches to the -maint branch and hope to cut point releases as were currently doing with 0.9.12 but if other distros (apart from Debians downstreams) would use the same version this would be a plus.
Unfortunately libvirt 2.4.0 came in too late in Fedora 25 cycle, so we will be sticking with libvirt 2.3.0 - Cole
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