On June 30, 2020 the Debian project will stop providing security patch
support for the Debian 8 "Jessie" release. The Cloud Services and SRE
teams at the Wikimedia Foundation would like to have all usage of
Debian Jessie in our managed networks replaced with newer versions of
Debian's operating system on or ideally well before that date.
A page has been created on Wikitech [0] with an initial timeline for
the removal of all Debian Jessie instances from Cloud VPS projects.
This timeline follows roughly the same schedule as we used in 2018
when deprecating Ubuntu Trusty in Cloud VPS projects:
* September 2019: Announce the initiative via this email and the Wikitech page
* October 2019: Start actively contacting instance maintainers who
need to migrate to a new OS
* November & December 2019: Continue to work with instance maintainers
to migrate to a new OS
* January 2020: Shutdown remaining Debian Jessie instances
If you know that your Cloud VPS project is using Debian Jessie, you
can get a head start on migrating your instances to Debian Buster
(preferred) or Stretch by visiting the Wikitech page and reading the
instructions there.
If you are a concerned Toolforge user, stay tuned for future
announcements about changes that will be made as the Toolforge admin
team works to remove Debian Jessie from that environment. For now
there is nothing an individual Tool maintainer needs to do.
[0]:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/Jessie_deprecation
Bryan - on behalf of the Cloud VPS admin team
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Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation
Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA
[[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] irc: bd808