+1 Our next major release will be in July or August. I think that pypa will drop support for manylinux2010 officially when release a next major version.
Thanks, -- kou In <CANva0dhxrkeGoUPFVuB8=319-iottot-_qoyivd1abyjv2o...@mail.gmail.com> "[DISC] (Python) Dropping support for manylinux2010" on Thu, 5 May 2022 13:01:47 +0200, Jacob Wujciak <ja...@voltrondata.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I would like to propose that we drop support for manylinux2010. > > CentoOS 6, on which the manylinux2010 image is based, has been EOL for over > two years [1]. > There is now also an official announcement by pypa that > manylinux2010 support will be dropped sometime in 2022 [2] that has not > received any feedback on either Github or Discourse. Since the announcement > the percentage of affected users has dropped from ~7% to ~4% of Python 3.7 > users [3]. ~52% of pyarrow users are on 3.7 so only ~2% of pyarrow users > [4] would potentially be affected by an issue fixed by updating pip [5]. > > We have already had several CI issues with the manylinux2010 builds that > required workarounds. There are now also issues with verification as there > are no aarch64 wheels for manylinux2010 [6]. > > [1]: > https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/#Life_Cycle_Dates > [2]: https://github.com/pypa/manylinux/issues/1281 > [3]: https://mayeut.github.io/manylinux-timeline/ > [4]: https://pypistats.org/packages/pyarrow > [5]: https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/news/#v19-3 > [6]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-16476 > > Thanks, > Jacob
