Announcement: Qubes OS 3.0 reaches EOL on 2016-09-09

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Andrew David Wong

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Sep 2, 2016, 3:17:54 PM9/2/16
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As a reminder, Qubes OS 3.0 reaches EOL on 2016-09-09. If you're a current 3.0
user, we strongly urge you to upgrade to a newer release before 2016-09-09. You
can read the full announcement here:

https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2016/09/02/qubes-os-3-0-eol-on-2016-09-09/

Please feel free to use this thread to discuss the announcement.

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Andrew David Wong (Axon)
Community Manager, Qubes OS
https://www.qubes-os.org
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Dave Ewart

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Sep 3, 2016, 1:40:48 PM9/3/16
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On Friday, 02.09.2016 at 12:17 -0700, Andrew David Wong wrote:

> As a reminder, Qubes OS 3.0 reaches EOL on 2016-09-09. If you're a
> current 3.0 user, we strongly urge you to upgrade to a newer release
> before 2016-09-09. You can read the full announcement here:
>
> https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2016/09/02/qubes-os-3-0-eol-on-2016-09-09/
>
> Please feel free to use this thread to discuss the announcement.

I've got 3.0 and therefore need to upgrade.

I note that 3.2 is not quite final release: I'd prefer not to install
3.1 only to consider 3.2 almost immediately afterwards.

Given the EOL for Qubes 3.0, is the recommended "upgrade to a newer
release before 2016-09-09" really recommending the 3.2 release
candidate?

Cheers,

Dave.

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Marek Marczykowski-Górecki

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Sep 3, 2016, 1:50:50 PM9/3/16
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On Sat, Sep 03, 2016 at 06:40:46PM +0100, Dave Ewart wrote:
> On Friday, 02.09.2016 at 12:17 -0700, Andrew David Wong wrote:
>
> > As a reminder, Qubes OS 3.0 reaches EOL on 2016-09-09. If you're a
> > current 3.0 user, we strongly urge you to upgrade to a newer release
> > before 2016-09-09. You can read the full announcement here:
> >
> > https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2016/09/02/qubes-os-3-0-eol-on-2016-09-09/
> >
> > Please feel free to use this thread to discuss the announcement.
>
> I've got 3.0 and therefore need to upgrade.
>
> I note that 3.2 is not quite final release: I'd prefer not to install
> 3.1 only to consider 3.2 almost immediately afterwards.
>
> Given the EOL for Qubes 3.0, is the recommended "upgrade to a newer
> release before 2016-09-09" really recommending the 3.2 release
> candidate?

Unless some major bug will be found in R3.2-rc3 (which is unlikely), the
final R3.2 will be exactly the same as R3.2-rc3. So, yes - upgrading to
R3.2-rc3 seems as a reasonable step.

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Dave Ewart

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On Saturday, 03.09.2016 at 19:50 +0200, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 03, 2016 at 06:40:46PM +0100, Dave Ewart wrote:
> > On Friday, 02.09.2016 at 12:17 -0700, Andrew David Wong wrote:
> >
> > > As a reminder, Qubes OS 3.0 reaches EOL on 2016-09-09. If you're a
> > > current 3.0 user, we strongly urge you to upgrade to a newer
> > > release before 2016-09-09. You can read the full announcement
> > > here:
> > >
> > > https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2016/09/02/qubes-os-3-0-eol-on-2016-09-09/
> > >
> > > Please feel free to use this thread to discuss the announcement.
> >
> > I've got 3.0 and therefore need to upgrade.
> >
> > I note that 3.2 is not quite final release: I'd prefer not to
> > install 3.1 only to consider 3.2 almost immediately afterwards.
> >
> > Given the EOL for Qubes 3.0, is the recommended "upgrade to a newer
> > release before 2016-09-09" really recommending the 3.2 release
> > candidate?
>
> Unless some major bug will be found in R3.2-rc3 (which is unlikely),
> the final R3.2 will be exactly the same as R3.2-rc3. So, yes -
> upgrading to R3.2-rc3 seems as a reasonable step.

Thanks, that does indeed seem reasonable given the maturity of the 3.2
release candidate. Cheers :-)

Dave.

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