"We will have Cassandra running with unsupported Python 3.6 once we release 4.1" - what I meant by that that if somebody has Python 3.6, it will be possible to run cqlsh. There is a check, afaik, which checks what Python a user has and it prevents them from running it if it is something lower.
https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/trunk/bin/cqlsh.py#L38-L39 On Tue, 5 Apr 2022 at 12:35, Stefan Miklosovic <stefan.mikloso...@instaclustr.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > I stumbled upon this ticket (1) > > We will have Cassandra running with unsupported Python 3.6 once we > release 4.1 which is not good in my books. > > I would like to try to bump it to 3.8 as minimum, it will get security > updates to 2024 at least. > > Does it make sense to people? Especially so close to the freeze. I > guess we would need to update Python in Jenkins images mostly and so > on. I am running 3.8.10 locally with all the tests so it really seems > to be just a version bump. > > Regards > > (1) https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-17450
