Supported Build Platforms

Version Summary Table

Summary of Supported Build Platforms:

Platform	Version	Release date	Expected EOL	QEMU support until	Python version	GCC version
Debian	11 (Bullseye)	2021-08-14	~2024	Up to 2 years after Debian 12 release	3.9.1	10.2
	10 (Buster)	2019-07-06	~2022	Up to 2 years after Debian 11 release	3.7.3	8.3.0, 8.2.0, 7.4.0
RHEL	9	2022-05-18	2032-05-32	Two years after the next major release	3.9, 3.11	11.3
	8	2019-05-07	2029-05-31	Two years after RHEL9 release (i.e. May 2024)	3.6, 3.8	8.2.1
	7	2014-06-09	2024-06-30	2022-05-07	3.6.3	4.8.5, 4.4.7, 3.4.6, 3.2.3
SLES	15	2018-07-16	2028-07-31	Up to 2 years after next SLES release	3.6.10	9.3.1, 7.5.0, 7
	12	2014-10-27	2024-10-31	2020-07-16	3.6.8?
Ubuntu LTS	20.04 (Focal Fosa)	2018-04-26	April 2025	Up to 2 years after next Ubuntu LTS release	3.8.2	10, 9.3.0, 8.4.0, 7.5.0
	18.04 (Bionic Beaver)	2018-04-26	April 2023	Up to 2 years after next Ubuntu LTS release	3.6.9, 3.7.5, 3.8.0	8.4.0, 7.5.0, 7.3.0, 6.5.0, 6.4.0, 5.5.0, 4.8.5
Ubuntu	21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)	2021-04-22	November 2021	EOL (November 2021)	3.9.4	10.3
Fedora	34	2021-04-27	November 2021	EOL	3.10	11.2
openSUSE	Tumbleweed	n/a	n/a	n/a	3.8.5, 3.6.12 (as of 2020-09-17)	10, 20.2.1, 9.3.1, 7.5.0
	Leap 15.2	?	2021-12	EOL	3.6.10	9.3.1, 9.2.1, 8.2.1, 7.5.0, 7
	Leap 15.1	?	2020-11	EOL	3.6.10	9.3.1, 8.2.1, 7.5.0, 7.4.1, 7.4.0, 7
FreeBSD	13	2021-04-13	?	EOL	From FreeBSD ports: 3.8.5, 3.7.9, 3.6.12 (as of 2020-09-17)	From FreeBSD ports: 10.2.0, 9.3.0, 9, 8.4.0, 7.5.0, 4.8.5
	12	2018-12-11	2024-06-30	EOL
	11	2016-10	2021-09-30	EOL
NetBSD	9	2020-02-14	?	?	From pkgsrc: 3.8.5, 3.7.9, 3.6.12 (as of 2020-09-17)	From pkgsrc: 10.2.0, 9.3.0, 8
	8	2018-07-17	?	2022-02-14
	7	2015-09-25	2020-06-30	2020-07-17
OpenBSD	6.7				From OpenBSD ports: 3.8.5, 3.7.9 (as of 2020-09-17)	From OpenBSD ports: 2.7.18, 3.7.9, 3.8, 3.8.5
	6.6
	6.5	2019-05-01	~April 2020	~April 2020
	6.4	2018-10-18	~October 2019	~October 2019
macOS	Big Sur (11.x)				From Homebrew: 3.8.5, 3.7.9 (as of 2020-09-17)	From Homebrew: 3.7.9, 3.8.5
	Catalina (10.15)

Useful links

Repology queries

• Python package version database on Repology

Command for querying Repology API:

curl -s 'https://repology.org/api/v1/project/python' | \
  jq -r 'group_by(.repo) | .[] | "\(.[0].repo): \(map(.version) | sort | unique | join(", "))"' | \
  egrep -i 'fedora|ubuntu|debian|rhel|centos|bsd|suse|sles|homebrew|pkgsrc'

Fedora

• Fedora releases
• Maintenance Schedule

Ubuntu

• Ubuntu releases

Debian

• Debian releases

openSUSE

• openSUSE Lifetime

FreeBSD

• Supported FreeBSD releases

NetBSD

• NetBSD formal releases

OpenBSD

• OpenBSD Flavors

macOS

• macOS versions

SUSE

• SUSE Package Hub
• python3 at SUSE Package Hub
• SUSE release information
  • SLED 15 is ID 1609
  • SLES 15.2/x86_64 is 1939
• python packages in SLED 15

Listing SLES product IDs:

curl -s 'https://scc.suse.com/api/package_search/products' | \
  jq -r '.data[] | select(.identifier | test("SLES/")) | "\(.id) - \(.name) \(.identifier)"'

Listing Python versions in SLES 15.2/x86_64:

curl -s 'https://scc.suse.com/api/package_search/packages?product_id=1939&query=python' | \
  jq -r '.data[] | select(.name | match("^python[0-9]*$")) | "\(.name) \(.version) \(.arch) \(.products[0].identifier)"'