Supported Build Platforms

Version Summary Table

Summary of Supported Build Platforms:

Platform	Version	Release date	Expected EOL	QEMU support until
Debian	11 (Bullseye)	2021-08-14	~2024	Up to 2 years after Debian 12 release
	10 (Buster)	2019-07-06	~2022	Up to 2 years after Debian 11 release
RHEL	9	2022-05-18	2032-05-32	Two years after the next major release
	8	2019-05-07	2029-05-31	Two years after RHEL9 release (i.e. May 2024)
	7	2014-06-09	2024-06-30	2022-05-07
SLES	15	2018-07-16	2028-07-31	Up to 2 years after next SLES release
	12	2014-10-27	2024-10-31	2020-07-16
Ubuntu LTS	22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish)	2022-04-21	April 2027	Two years after Ubuntu 24.04 release
	20.04 (Focal Fosa)	2018-04-26	April 2025	Two years after Ubuntu 22.04 release
Ubuntu	Latest version	Apr. / Oct.	6 months after release	EOL
Fedora	Latest 2 versions	Apr. / Oct.	1 year after release	EOL
openSUSE	Tumbleweed	n/a	n/a	n/a
	Leap 15.4	2022-06-08	2023-11-30	EOL
	Leap 15.3	2021-06-02	2022-12-31	EOL
FreeBSD	13	2021-04-13	?	EOL
	12	2018-12-11	2024-06-30	April 2023
NetBSD	9	2020-02-14	?	?
	8	2018-07-17	?	2022-02-14
OpenBSD	7.2	2022-10-20		Until 7.3 gets released
	7.1	2022-04-21		Until 7.2 gets releaed
macOS	macOS 13 (Ventura)	Oct 2022	?	Two years after the next major release
	macOS 12 (Monterey)	Oct 2021	?	Oct 2023 ?

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

RHEL

• https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/#Life_Cycle_Dates

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)"'