From cd7415c2f21e093cc02693e1f96392a35b47d20e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Bartlett Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2020 18:07:29 +1200 Subject: [PATCH] WHATSNEW: Announce the end of Python 2.6/2.7 support to build Samba This is a warning for 4.14, to give users the normal deprecation notice. BUG: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14488 Signed-off-by: Andrew Bartlett --- WHATSNEW.txt | 14 ++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt index 6c0cd70e840..cf70c1df1c0 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW.txt +++ b/WHATSNEW.txt @@ -16,16 +16,22 @@ UPGRADING NEW FEATURES/CHANGES ==================== -Python 3.6 Required -------------------- +Python 3.6 or later required +---------------------------- Samba's minimum runtime requirement for python was raised to Python 3.5 with samba 4.12. Samba 4.13 raises this minimum version to Python 3.6 both to access new features and because this is the oldest version we test with in our CI infrastructure. -(Build time support for the file server with Python 2.6 has not -changed) +This is also the last release where it will be possible to build Samba +(just the file server) with Python versions 2.6 and 2.7. + +As Python 2.7 has been End Of Life upstream since April 2020, Samba +is dropping ALL Python 2.x support in the NEXT release. + +Samba 4.14 to be released in March 2021 will require Python 3.6 or +later to build. wide links functionality ------------------------ -- 2.25.1