Per our platform support policy https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/about/build-platforms.html
"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 April this year, Ubuntu LTS 22.04 will arrive, which means the "previous" release will then be considered to be "LTS 20.04" and thus "18.04" will no longer be in scope for what we aim to support. It is possible that this might enable us to assume newer versions of some software we depend on, but I've not analysed the situation yet. This would apply from start of 7.1 development cycle if any min version bumps do appear relevant. When we previously had 16.04 fall out of scope for support, we had a roadblock in bumping min versions. IIRC this was due to various machines in the compile farm Peter used for merge testing not supporting anything newer. I don't have a good understanding of what machines are used for testing now, so I'm wondering if we're going to hit any kind of similar issue if we try to drop 18.04 support ? If so we might want to start thinking about our options now. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|
