Comments on: OS Platform End of Life (EOL) Announcement for Debian Linux 9 https://www.percona.com/blog/os-platform-end-of-life-eol-announcement-for-debian-linux-9/ Thu, 04 Aug 2022 17:02:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: Lenz Grimmer https://www.percona.com/blog/os-platform-end-of-life-eol-announcement-for-debian-linux-9/#comment-10973706 Thu, 04 Aug 2022 17:02:15 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=82027#comment-10973706 In reply to Patrick C.

Hi Patrick, the OS platform EOL is an independent event of the Percona Software EOL. As an example, when Oracle MySQL 5.7 will reach its EOL state, Percona Server for MySQL 5.7 will be discontinued as well (unless we decide to provide post-EOL support as an option to our support subscription for customers as we did for 5.6 – but that has not been decided yet).

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By: Patrick C https://www.percona.com/blog/os-platform-end-of-life-eol-announcement-for-debian-linux-9/#comment-10973700 Wed, 03 Aug 2022 16:24:45 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=82027#comment-10973700 In reply to georgelorch.

I appreciate the clarification: so 5.7 is EOL in October 2023, regardless of any supported OS EOL? Or would security updates continue until the OS EOL? For example with Debian 10’s extended support ending in June of 2024. The wording here makes it sound like that PS57 would be kept up to date until the Platform EOL.
https://www.percona.com/services/policies/percona-software-support-lifecycle

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By: georgelorch https://www.percona.com/blog/os-platform-end-of-life-eol-announcement-for-debian-linux-9/#comment-10973699 Wed, 03 Aug 2022 15:02:53 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=82027#comment-10973699 In reply to Patrick C..

Hello Patrick,
As a general rule, we follow Oracle MySQL Community for platform support. When they provide a software release that supports a new platform (Debian 11), so will we. It seems that Debian 11 support was not released for 5.7 in their 3rd quarter MySQL Community 5.7.39. Therefore Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.39 would also not yet be available on 5.7.39. We follow what Oracle does on platform support lest we end up creating unnecessary duplication of efforts and difficult or impossible upgrade/sidegrade situations. If we can determine that Oracle will not offer Debian 11 support for the remainder of 5.7 series since it will be End Of Life in 14 months and if the effort is not monumental, we may offer it ourselves. It does appear that this may be the case as the 8.0 series has had Debian 11 support for several releases now whereas the 5.7 series has not. I must also note again that 5.7 will be EOL in 14 months and you should be looking to get up to the 8.0 series as soon as possible.


George O. Lorch III
Director of Server Engineering, Percona Server for MySQL, Percona XtraDB Cluster, and Percona XtraBackup

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By: Patrick C. https://www.percona.com/blog/os-platform-end-of-life-eol-announcement-for-debian-linux-9/#comment-10973698 Wed, 03 Aug 2022 13:31:19 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=82027#comment-10973698 Can you comment as to when (or if) Percona 5.7 server will go into the main branch for Debian 11, or it will stay under the testing branch? We were preparing to upgrade from Debian 9 -> 10 and then straight to 11, but when we realized that PS57 is in testing branch for Debian 11. So we stayed on Debian 10.

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