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Task #5087

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Drop support for Ubuntu 16.04 and CentOS 7

Added by Davide Pesavento about 4 years ago. Updated almost 4 years ago.

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Ubuntu 20.04 will be released on April 23, 2020. Per platform policy, that means we can drop support for 16.04 and raise our minimum requirement to 18.04. Similarly, we should also drop CentOS 7 support and require CentOS 8 or later.
As a consequence, we can raise the minimum version of toolchain components and various other dependencies. I suggest the following:

  • gcc >= 7
  • clang >= 5
  • boost >= 1.65.1
  • openssl >= 1.1.1

Potentially, we could also switch the codebase to C++17, but I'll consider that separately at a later time.
(updated plan: see #5087-14)


Related issues 5 (0 open5 closed)

Blocked by NFD - Task #5045: Release 0.7.0ClosedAlex Afanasyev

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Blocked by NFD - Task #5040: Deploy CentOS 8 Jenkins agentsClosedDavide Pesavento

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Blocked by NFD - Task #5085: Upgrade armhf Jenkins agents to Ubuntu 18.04ClosedMd Ashiqur Rahman

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Blocked by NFD - Task #5093: Upgrade i386 Jenkins agents to Ubuntu 18.04ClosedMd Ashiqur Rahman

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Blocked by NFD - Task #4904: Upgrade testbed nodes to Ubuntu 18.04ClosedJohn DeHart

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