Problem:
As a Pulp admin I want to have a quick overview, which versions are maintained or deprecated.
Expected outcome:
Never run a deprecated/stale Version of Pulp
Pulpcore version:
Thats the question!
Pulp plugins installed and their versions:
None
Operating system - distribution and version:
RHEL8/9/10
Other relevant data:
Available releases page (Stale?): Releases - Pulp Project
I was looking in our docs for our current policy, but I couldn’t find anything so here it is: Each plugin has a file called template_config.yml with an attribute called supported_release_branches. [0] As the name implies this list of versions is the current list of versions we support and backport fixes to. We also support the latest version till the next version is released (usually every week when a new feature is added). For pulpcore we have a typical deprecation policy of announcing deprecations and then removing in batches every 15 releases. [1] The last breaking change pulpcore was 3.70, the next will be 3.85.
[0] https://github.com/pulp/pulpcore/blob/main/template_config.yml#L91
[1] Pulp Versioning - Pulp Project
I#ve looked into the linked files and if I understand it correct these pulpcore version are supported:
supported_release_branches:
- ‘3.22’
- ‘3.28’
- ‘3.39’
- ‘3.49’
- ‘3.63’
- ‘3.73’
But what about the latest release since 3.73?
We backport critical bugs to latest_release_branch as well - which is currently latest_release_branch: '3.80', and gets updated automatically when a new Y happens.