Windows 10 Iot Core End Of Life
Christian Erdmann
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We can only start development on a released version of .net Core due to our SOX auditors.
We take months producing the new version. Upgrading to the new .net Core version, fixing bugs/workarounds for .net core new version and adding business functionality
We do extensive testing over months
We get audited for SOX compliance, business risk, PII data handling, etc.
We release to production
Baseline take away is that from our CIO is if we spend $1+ million upgrading/enhancing a large core financial system, it should last for much longer than 2.5 years before being subjected to a forced upgrade by the vendor end of life-ing a .net Core LTS version.
Keeping those systems which are not yet on .net Core on the old .net Framework is not a solution, the old .net Framework will be supported for a long time, but, like prior products, will have fundamental fatal bugs which will not be fixed.
When c# winforms .net 3.1 came out I decided to port across a c# wpf app.
.net core 3.1 has double buffered graphics so is much quicker.
To start with .net 3.1 winforms was poor with all sorts of bugs.
So I reported the bugs one of which was forms designer crashing out.
They fixed the bugs which was great.
On the next release the forms designer crashing came back !
Yesterday they finally got it fixed ?(again.)
This bug was pretty fundamental to how the software works.
Clearly the software is being rushed out and bugs get added.
This appears to just be a tactic of Microsoft to constantly not have to support anything properly.
.net core is basically a joke at this point and needs at least 5 years of stabilisation on a single version.
and telling off customers proves what? posts that are honest should not be flamed on. i have over 25 years of dealing with software and i am also not liking some of what has been going on. if we cant speak our minds then why should we use the products ? when .net came out it was a great thing. today while it still has great stuff its also grown to a middle age of fragmentation, lack of clear vision and is getting to be more political than technical.
This section describes release cycles, rules, and maintenance schedules for both Ansible community projects: the Ansible community package and ansible-core. The two projects have different versioning systems, maintenance structures, contents, and workflows.
Many community users install the Ansible community package. The Ansible community package offers the functionality that existed in Ansible 2.9, with more than 85 Collections containing thousands of modules and plugins. The ansible-core option is primarily for developers and users who want to install only the collections they need.
The Ansible community team typically releases two major versions of the community package per year, on a flexible release cycle that trails the release of ansible-core. This cycle can be extended to allow for larger changes to be properly implemented and tested before a new release is made available. See Ansible Roadmap for upcoming release details. Between major versions, we release a new minor version of the Ansible community package every four weeks. Minor releases include new backwards-compatible features, modules and plugins, as well as bug fixes.
Starting with version 2.10, the Ansible community team guarantees maintenance for only one major community package release at a time. For example, when Ansible 4.0.0 gets released, the team will stop making new 3.x releases. Community members may maintain older versions if desired.
Each Ansible EOL version may issue one final maintenance release at or shortly after the first release of the next version. When this happens, the final maintenance release is EOL at the date it releases.
Older, unmaintained versions of the Ansible community package might contain unfixed security vulnerabilities (CVEs). If you are using a release of the Ansible community package that is no longer maintained, we strongly encourage you to upgrade as soon as possible to benefit from the latest features and security fixes.
Each major release of the Ansible community package accepts the latest released version of each included Collection and the latest released version of ansible-core. For specific schedules and deadlines, see the Ansible Roadmap for each version. Major releases of the Ansible community package can contain breaking changes in the modules and other plugins within the included Collections and in core features.
The Ansible community package follows semantic versioning rules. Minor releases of the Ansible community package accept only backwards-compatible changes in included Collections, that is, not Collections major releases. Collections must also use semantic versioning, so the Collection version numbers reflect this rule. For example, if Ansible 3.0.0 releases with community.general 2.0.0, then all minor releases of Ansible 3.x (such as Ansible 3.1.0 or Ansible 3.5.0) must include a 2.x release of community.general (such as 2.8.0 or 2.9.5) and not 3.x.x or later major releases.
You can refer to the Ansible package porting guides for tips on updating your playbooks to run on newer versions of Ansible. For Ansible 2.10 and later releases, you can install the Ansible package with pip. See Installing Ansible for details. You can download older Ansible releases from
ansible-core is developed and released on a flexible release cycle. We can extend this cycle to properly implement and test larger changes before a new release is made available. See ansible-core Roadmaps for upcoming release details.
ansible-core has a graduated maintenance structure that extends to three major releases.For more information, read about the Development and maintenance workflows orsee the chart in ansible-core control node Python support for the degrees to which current releases are maintained.
Older, unmaintained versions of ansible-core can contain unfixed security vulnerabilities (CVEs). If you are using a release of ansible-core that is no longer maintained, we strongly encourage you to upgrade as soon as possible to benefit from the latest features and security fixes. ansible-core maintenance continues for 3 releases. Thus the latest release receives security and general bug fixes when it is first released, security and critical bug fixes when the next ansible-core version is released, and only security fixes once the follow on to that version is released.
ansible-core on Windows supports the baseline version of PowerShell that each Windows version ships with. For example, Windows Server 2016 shipped with PowerShell 5.1 so Ansible will support PowerShell 5.1 for the life of Windows Server 2016 support. Support for each Windows version is determined by the Windows lifecycle policy and when each version reaches the extended end date. For example Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 extended end date was for October 10th 2023 while Windows Server 2016 is January 12th 2027. Windows support does not align with the 3 year Extended Security Updates (ESU) support from Microsoft which is a paid support option for products that are past the normal end of support date from Microsoft.
This table links to the changelogs for each major ansible-core release. These changelogs contain the dates and significant changes in each minor release.Dates listed indicate the start date of the maintenance cycle.
We create at least one release candidate before each new major release of Ansible or ansible-core. Release candidates allow the Ansible community to try out new features, test existing playbooks on the release candidate, and report bugs or issues they find.
Ansible and ansible-core tag the first release candidate (RC1) which is usually scheduled to last five business days. If no major bugs or issues are identified during this period, the release candidate becomes the final release.
If there are major problems with the first candidate, the team and the community fix them and tag a second release candidate (RC2). This second candidate lasts for a shorter duration than the first. If no problems have been reported for an RC2 after two business days, the second release candidate becomes the final release.
At the end of the development period, the release engineers announce which Collections, and which major version of each included Collection, will be included in the next release of the Ansible community package. New Collections and new major versions may not be added after this, and the work of creating a new release begins.
Some Collections are maintained by the Ansible team, some by Partner organizations, and some by community teams. For more information on adding features or fixing bugs in Ansible-maintained Collections, see Contributing to Ansible-maintained Collections.
We generate changelogs based on fragments. When creating new features for existing modules and plugins or fixing bugs, create a changelog fragment describing the change. A changelog entry is not needed for new modules or plugins. Details for those items will be generated from the module documentation.
Since Ansible is a package of individual collections, the deprecation cycle depends on the collection maintainers. We recommend the collection maintainers deprecate a feature in one Ansible major version and do not remove that feature for one year, or at least until the next major Ansible version. For example, deprecate the feature in 3.1.0 and do not remove the feature until 5.0.0 or 4.0.0 at the earliest. Collections should use semantic versioning, such that the major collection version cannot be changed within an Ansible major version. Therefore, the removal should not happen before the next major Ansible community package release. This is up to each collection maintainer and cannot be guaranteed.
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