Announcement: Upcoming Deprecation of Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) Images

[Shanmugam Kulandaivel]

Summary

Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) images made available by Canonical for use in Google Compute Engine will be deprecated on April 28th 2017. After that date, Ubuntu 12.04 Image will be available in the 'deprecated' state in the ubuntu-os-cloud project.

Details

Ubuntu 12.04 End Of Life date is April 28th, 2017 and after that time, Ubuntu Security Notices will no longer include information or updated packages, including kernel updates, for Ubuntu 12.04.

What changes once the images are deprecated?  

• Canonical will not make any updates to the Ubuntu 12.04 images after the deprecation date. Users are responsible for updating both the operating system and Compute Engine software that is installed on the image. Google does not provide assurance that Compute Engine guest software will continue to work or that all new features will be supported on deprecated images.

• Ubuntu 12.04  image will not be displayed in the preconfigured images list in the Cloud Console. Users that need to create an instance using one of these images can navigate to the Images list, click the ‘show deprecated images’ option, select the appropriate image, and create an instance with that image.

• Ubuntu 12.04 image will not be listed when users run gcloud compute images list. Users can use gcloud compute images list --project ubuntu-os-cloud --show-deprecated --no-standard-images to see these images.

Recommended Actions

Users should evaluate and move to the latest 16.04 LTS release. Users that require additional time to complete migration to a newer Ubuntu version may purchase Extended Security Maintenance from Canonical to receive important security fixes for the kernel and the most essential user space packages.

Questions?

Please post your questions to Google Compute Engine Discussion Group: gce-discussion