Say good-bye to Universal Blue 37

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Fedora 37 is planned to be end-of-life December 5th, 2023, so we’ve made the change on Universal Blue.

As of today, we’re no longer building Universal Blue images based on Fedora 37.

If you were still using Fedora 37 based images, this is a great time to upgrade to our :gts tag. GTS (Grand Touring Support) tracks the previous stable release, currently built on Fedora 38.

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also IMPORTANT!

The *-nokmods images are not updated anymore without any message! This means your systems might be out of date drastically without recognizing it!

Rebase to latest *-main instead

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*-nokmods builds are still being built for images based on Fedora 38. (see: https://github.com/ublue-os/main/pkgs/container/silverblue-nokmods )

But you are correct that there are no *-nokmods images based on Fedora 39 because starting with 39, all *-main images are “nokmods” by default.

This change was made before we were officially “live” with 39, but it wasn’t done in secret. Here’s the proposal issue which documents the change.

The *-nokmods images were only a few days old when we realized they needed to be the norm, not the exception, thus the proposal and changes above. We almost dropped them immediately, but that would have meant changing how 37/38 images behaved mid-cycle. Thus we arrived at the implemented plan.

You are right that the Universal Blue 39 launched without detailing this change. Apologies for any confusion there.

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There is a general lack of a communication medium for changes like these.

  • oh, there is an nvidia update, do you want to pin this deployment?
  • did the nvidia update go well? do you want to delete that saved deployment?
  • we removed some apps, install the flatpak instead!
  • please rebase to this image!

Stuff like that. I dont know a good and cross-desktop way to do that, other than having an rss feed reader preinstalled fetching some very minimalist update notes. Because CLI warnings will not reach GUI users, and no warnings will reach people using automatic updates.

Notify-send has no way to display until clicked away poorly. Also no buttons, to for example pin the deployment. So zenity, kdialog and whatever other desktops/WMs use.