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!!
