Today, we announce the availability of a new archive CDN dedicated to the long-term archival of our old and End-of-Life (EOL) releases.
Effective immediately, this archive hosts all repositories for releases based on Debian 10 (Buster) and older.
The archive is reachable via the following URLs:
To use the archive for an EOL release, you will need to change the domain in the apt repository configuration files in
Some important technical details for this archive:
Future Changes to the Main Repository
With this new archive in place, we will be removing these older packages from our main CDN in the near future. This change allows us to reduce load on the main mirrors and ensures sufficient space for upcoming releases.
Moving forward, we plan to roughly follow Debian's archival schedule: keeping stable, oldstable, and oldoldstable on the main CDN, and moving everything older to the archive CDN. We also plan to migrate older ISO images and container appliances to this archive in the future.
Note: While this archive ensures continued access to older resources, please remember that these versions are End-of-Life. If you are still using them, we strongly recommend upgrading to a current, supported release as soon as possible.
Effective immediately, this archive hosts all repositories for releases based on Debian 10 (Buster) and older.
The archive is reachable via the following URLs:
To use the archive for an EOL release, you will need to change the domain in the apt repository configuration files in
/etc/apt/sources.list or inside /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ from enterprise.proxmox.com or download.proxmox.com to archive.proxmox.com.Some important technical details for this archive:
- HTTP Support: We explicitly provide unencrypted HTTP access. This is crucial for older releases, as their SSL/TLS stacks are generally not compatible with modern Let's Encrypt certificates found on HTTPS.
- Security: Please note that package repository integrity is protected by release files signed with a GPG key on a Hardware Security Module (HSM). This validation occurs independently of transport security, making the use of HTTP safe for these package updates.
- Enterprise Repositories: The enterprise repositories for these specific EOL versions are available on the archive host without subscription restrictions, as they are fully synchronized with the other repositories.
- Rate Limiting: The archive resides on separate CDN nodes and is rate-limited, please only use it if really necessary.
Future Changes to the Main Repository
With this new archive in place, we will be removing these older packages from our main CDN in the near future. This change allows us to reduce load on the main mirrors and ensures sufficient space for upcoming releases.
Moving forward, we plan to roughly follow Debian's archival schedule: keeping stable, oldstable, and oldoldstable on the main CDN, and moving everything older to the archive CDN. We also plan to migrate older ISO images and container appliances to this archive in the future.
Note: While this archive ensures continued access to older resources, please remember that these versions are End-of-Life. If you are still using them, we strongly recommend upgrading to a current, supported release as soon as possible.
