Originally we had planned to support RHEL 7 but in testing 5.0 we found out that cqlsh no longer works on RHEL 7[1]. This was changed in CASSANDRA-19245 which upgraded python-driver from 3.28.0 to 3.29.0. For some reason this minor version upgrade also dropped support for python 3.6 which is the supported python version on RHEL 7.
We wanted to bring this to the attention of the community to figure out next steps; do we wish to say that RHEL 7 is no longer supported (making upgrades tied to OS upgrades, which can be very hard for users), or do we want to add python 3.6 support back to python-driver? 1: the error seen by users is $ cqlsh Warning: unsupported version of Python, required 3.8-3.11 but found 3.6 Warning: unsupported version of Python, required 3.8-3.11 but found 2.7 No appropriate Python interpreter found. $
