I should have opened this before adding a release note in the Foreman 3.13 release.
This is a formal RFC for dropping support to run Foreman on Debian 11. Debian 11 went LTS back in August and that means not everything is fully supported anymore. Users can upgrade to the fully supported Debian 12 packages.
After dropping Debian 11, we no longer have any platform that runs Ruby 2.7 or NodeJS 14. Removing those will also reduce our testing matrix.
I started with the first PR:
Because I was uncertain if I had everything I decided to document it: Document removing a Debian release by ekohl · Pull Request #11605 · theforeman/foreman-packaging · GitHub.
The following PRs have been merged:
It’s also pruned from nightly repos. Now the documentation needs to be updated:
With this I consider the first part of this RFC complete.
For the second part I opened Fixes #38115 - Drop Ruby 2.7 and NodeJS 14 support by ekohl · Pull Request #10406 · theforeman/foreman · GitHub but noticed we still build Ubuntu 22.04 with NodeJS 14. I opened Update NodeJS to 18.x on Ubuntu with Foreman 3.14+ by ekohl · Pull Request #2190 · theforeman/foreman-infra · GitHub to do so.
Then we should also look at Smart Proxy and Hammer. That’s a bit bigger effort so I’ll follow up on that later.