On Fri, Nov 21, 2025 at 10:55:48AM -0500, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
> 1. We maintain the 11-backports plan with only amd64 SKUs in the future.
> This lets us leave the current amd64 SKUs unchanged so amd64 users do
> not need to take any action.
>
> 2. We introduce a new plan 11-backports-arm64-v2 that will contain
> only newly published arm64 images using a sku with the same name.
> Arm64 users will need to specify the new SKU when launching VMs. (Feel
> free to suggest a better name for the new plan/sku.)
3. We deprecate 11-backports now, just eight months before it being EOL
anyway.
I don't see a reason to do a pretty large rename dance just for a soon
to be EOL distribution. We can do it for all and implement some
changes, like no gen 1 anymore.
Bastian
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