On Monday, May 1, 2023 at 6:56:28 PM UTC-6 Mark Waite wrote:
The platform SIG and the documentation SIG have been discussing a possible early end of life for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 support by the Jenkins project. RHEL 7 and its derivatives will be unsupported beginning June 30, 2024 because that is when the operating system provider stops supporting it. I've captured the reasons that I believe we should officially declare an end of support even earlier in https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/7913 I'm willing to open a Jenkins Enhancement Proposal for further discussion if necessary, but would like to hear feedback or concerns in the pull request comments before I spend the extra effort to write a JEP. https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/7913 is ready for review. It proposes to declare the end of support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, CentOS 7, Oracle Linux 7, Scientific Linux 7, and other derivatives in the Jenkins project as November 15, 2023. That is 24 weeks after the release of Jenkins 2.401.1. Assuming we continue the release cadence for 4 weeks per LTS release, that will be the first release of the 2.42x.1 baseline, having been preceded by the 2.41x.1 baseline and the 2.401.x release series. Changes will be needed in our Docker containers to warn users of the `centos7` container images that they will no longer be updated. I'll plan to lead those changes along with other changes as part of the end of support for RHEL 7 and its derivatives. Mark Waite -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/dd9ec951-e5ad-40d9-8e23-a38b636077ecn%40googlegroups.com.
