We still mostly support CentOS 6 =D, I say mostly due to the fact I am not aware of any formal supports, just informal patches getting older OSes working again.
> On Apr 5, 2022, at 4:33 AM, Stefan Miklosovic > <stefan.mikloso...@instaclustr.com> wrote: > > But ... this begs another question to be asked - until when we want to > support Centos 7 ? > > On Tue, 5 Apr 2022 at 13:31, Stefan Miklosovic > <stefan.mikloso...@instaclustr.com> wrote: >> >> All good then, that's why I am asking! >> >> Thanks >> >> On Tue, 5 Apr 2022 at 13:23, Brandon Williams <dri...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> This changes my mind and I agree. >>> >>> On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 6:21 AM Bowen Song <bo...@bso.ng> wrote: >>>> >>>> I'm against this change. >>>> >>>> CentOS 7 only has Python up to 3.6 available from the EPEL repository, >>>> and the maintenance updates for CentOS 7 ends in 2024. See: >>>> https://wiki.centos.org/About/Product >>>> >>>> To install Python>3.6 on CentOS 7, the user must either use a 3rd party >>>> repository that's not maintained by the same project or compile it from >>>> source. None of these is as simple as "yum install epel-release && yum >>>> install python36". >>>> >>>> I would strongly recommend keeping Python 3.6 compatibility until >>>> 2024-06-30 when the CentOS 7 maintenance updates is stopped. >>>> >>>> On 05/04/2022 11:35, Stefan Miklosovic 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
