Just listened to TTT and have to roll back some of my comments. I didn’t understand the unofficial EOL policy. I thought it was “we deprecate old-old-stable when stable has reached dot two”, e.g. 25.04.2 means 24.04 no longer receives security updates.
But that’s not it. It’s “we deprecate old-stable when stable has reached dot two”, e.g. 25.04.2 means 24.10.2.2 no longer receives security updates.
That puts “VMs are now experimental” into a different light. It also means CE users that want security patches - and you should want them - will upgrade every 6 months.
There’s a teaser for alleviation of VM suffering, more detail next week.
There’s mention that a paid LTS CE could be a thing if enough people want it. So if you want it, can I suggest: Vote for Add an LTS CE subscription option, and leave a comment as to how much you’d pay.
I am genuinely curious whether “we need more than 6 months support” translates to “and we’ll pay for it”. Engineering time ain’t free.