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[Windows & Ubuntu] Python 3.7.x will be removed from December 6 ,2024 #10893

Open vidyasagarnimmagaddi opened 3 weeks ago

vidyasagarnimmagaddi commented 3 weeks ago

Breaking changes

Python 3.7.x will be removed from Windows 2019, Windows 2022, Ubuntu 20 and Ubuntu 22 images.

Target date

Image deployment will start on December 2 2024, will take 3-4 days.

The motivation for the changes

As per our software support policy, we are supporting only 5 most popular python versions while python 3.6.x has been EOL since ( 27 Jun 2023)

Possible impact

If your projects depend on python 3.7.x they might be broken.

Platforms affected

[X] Azure DevOps
[X] GitHub Actions

Runner images affected

[X] Ubuntu 20.04
[X] Ubuntu 22.04
[ ] Ubuntu 24.04
[ ] macOS 12
[ ] macOS 13
[ ] macOS 13 Arm64
[ ] macOS 14
[ ] macOS 14 Arm64
[ ] macOS 15
[ ] macOS 15 Arm64
[X] Windows Server 2019
[X] Windows Server 2022

Mitigation ways

For GitHub Actions the python 3.7.x archives will still be available through the actions/setup-python action.

vidyasagarnimmagaddi commented 3 weeks ago

Related Issue: https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/10878