We didn't want to stop building on Centos 8, but the way it went end of life and stopped doing any security updates forced our hand. See this thread for details [0]. Essentially this made even building and testing with Centos 8 infeasible, so we suggest users migrate to Centos 9 (so they continue to get security updates) or run Ceph with containers. Josh [0] https://www.spinics.net/lists/dev-ceph/msg06066.html On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 10:45 AM Konstantin Shalygin <k0ste@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > > On 25 Jul 2024, at 14:39, Noe P. <ml@am-rand.berlin> wrote: > > > > I find this 18.2.4 release highly confusing. > > > > Can anyone please confirm that EL8 packages are no more supported ? > > The small remark in the release notes > > > > qa/distros: remove centos 8 from supported distros (pr#57932, Guillaume > Abrioux, Casey Bodley, Adam King, Laura Flores) > > > > is a bit disturbing, in particular between two minor releases. > > If yes, is the reason the missing support for EL8 distro kernels ? > > > > We could build the packages locally, but there is no v18.2.4 tag in git. > > I do not think that's possible. Then in the current situation > > * if you deployed a Reef on a distribution that initially suited you when > planning the cluster (CentOS-Stream 8 + Reef), you must resetup all hosts > to CentOS-Stream 9. Yes, in the middle of the year. Right now (ha-ha) > * if you are trying to update from a previous release: Pacific to Reef, > then first you need to upgrade to 18.2.2, which is very buggy. Somehow live > with bugs (ha-ha-ha). And now perform a resetup of all hosts > > This has never happened before - stop packaging in the middle of even > release cycle (this not the 13, 15, 17 release, where everything is > possible). I hope common sense, between the distributions on which testing > is carried out, and the distributions for which packages are assembled (why > shouldn’t they be assembled if just a few months ago they were assembled > perfectly on the same package base) - these are different things > > Otherwise, we need Zac to correct the information listed in the ABC matrix > here [1] > > > k > [1] https://docs.ceph.com/en/latest/start/os-recommendations/#platforms > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@xxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave@xxxxxxx > _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@xxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave@xxxxxxx
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