Extend the 3.4 Support Lifecycle

[thesubmitter]

Hi,

Do you have any statistics on people with 3.4 setups vs 4.x setups?
The 3.4 setup is working fine and Debian is support wheezy for a few more years.

For "enterprise" type workloads especially ones where the major underlying tech is changing I feel like this is a really short lifecycle.

I don't wnat to be forced to move to something while what I have works fine.

(I searched and found no other threads on the topic)

 

[tom]

Hi,

Do you have any statistics on people with 3.4 setups vs 4.x setups?
The 3.4 setup is working fine and Debian is support wheezy for a few more years.

Debian Security Teams stopped Wheezy support in April 2016. Only for SOME packages, there is LTS support (from 26th April 2016 to 31st May 2018), with limited resoures due to obvious reasons. In fact, most people are working on getting Debian Stretch ready, so the interest in fixing someting in old distributions in totally minimized.

For "enterprise" type workloads especially ones where the major underlying tech is changing I feel like this is a really short lifecycle.

Proxmox VE follows a rolling release distribution, so just run latest version. Also in place distribution upgrades are supported.

I don't wnat to be forced to move to something while what I have works fine.

(I searched and found no other threads on the topic)

I agree that that 3.4 is working great. But there is a number of growing unfixed security issues in Wheezy. So far there is no plan to extend the extended support time for 3.4, see also:
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Category:proxmox_VE_3.x