Ubuntu 16 EOL. Ubuntu18 support?

[winterz]

Ubuntu Linux 16.04 LTS will no longer be supported by April 30, 2021.

I wonder if there are any plans to start supporting Ubuntu Linux 18 LTS

[probonopd]

Yes, after April 30, 2021 we will start looking into allowing building AppImages on Ubuntu LTS (Bionic Beaver). Although there is no need to - applications built on 16.04 LTS should continue to run on subsequent versions just fine.

[winterz]

@probonopd Thanks for the super-fast response. And happy to hear it.

[TheAssassin]

Although there is no need to - applications built on 16.04 LTS should continue to run on subsequent versions just fine.

That is just half of the story. Of course it will function. But the nonfunctional security requirements cannot be provided any more by EOL distributions. So keep using the oldest still-supported LTS. IMO, just upgrade already to 18.04. Nobody will, like, upgrade from xenial in exactly 2 weeks. If they haven't yet, they probably won't anyway.

[winterz]

The problem is that our admins want to upgrade to upgrade our CI worker to 18.04 ASAP (rightly so).
once that happens we cannot create an appimage for a new version of our software until linuxdeployqt properly supports 18.04

[TheAssassin]

IMO this paternalizing behavior in this project ignores real world needs. I don't like to advertise own software normally in other people's issue trackers, but you may want to check out linuxdeploy, which follows a different approach. I would, if any, at most warn users about not using the oldest still-supported LTS release.

[winterz]

@probonopd if I sounded angry, mad or otherwise unfriendly that was not my intention. I have no complaints with linuxdeployqt and am only hoping that sometime in the not-so-distant future there is a version for ubuntu18. This is a wonderful tool and we very much appreciate the efforts of everyone involved.
I apologize if I conveyed negative vibes.
-Allen

[Milerius]

This will also a big problem for our product if we are not able to build appimage on the GitHub ci once it drop 16.04

[alemuntoni]

Same problem here.
Ubuntu 16.04 is going to be retired, as they state here: actions/runner-images#3082
Without deployqt working on ubuntu 18.04, we won't be able to build and release our software for linux.

[probonopd]

Once Ubuntu 16.04 is retired, the restriction will be relaxed.

[probonopd]

The latest continuous release should run on Ubuntu 18.04. Please let me know in case it doesn't work for you. Thanks!

[winterz]

so far so good.
Thank you !