[IntelMQ-users] IntelMQ and Python 3.5

[Sebastian Wagner]

Dear all,

Heads-up: As we did not hear of anyone depending on Python 3.5 or Debian
9 - and Ubuntu 16.04 is EOL soon anyway - IntelMQ 2.3.0 won't support
Python 3.5 anymore. This is already the case for the "develop" branch in
the repository. Most components may still run under Python 3.5 as we do
not plan to introduce new features on a large-scale, for example with
automatic code-rewriting scripts. We intend to gradually use Python
3.6-features in new or reworked code, and we can now as well accept any
code depending on Python 3.6-features (e.g. the format-string syntax).

best regards,
Sebastian

On 12/4/20 2:09 PM, Birger Schacht wrote:
> Dear community,
>
> TLDR: We are thinking about dropping support for Python 3.5 with the
> release of IntelMQ 2.3.
>
> At the moment IntelMQ supports Python back to and including Python
> 3.5, which was released in 2015. The last version of Python 3.5 was
> 3.5.10 which was released this September and with that Python 3.5 has
> reached end-of-life. The two Distributions that ship Python 3.5 only
> are Debian 9 and Ubuntu 16.04.
> Debian 9 (Stretch) was superseded by Debian 10 (Buster) this summer,
> but does still get LTS support until June 2022. Support for Ubuntu
> 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) will end in April 2021.
>
> Therefore dropping support for Python 3.5 would mean that we would
> also have to drop support for Debian 9 and Ubuntu 16.04.
> The upside would not only be cleaner code through improvements in
> Python 3.6 but we could also update the packaging code. Furthermore,
> there might be IntelMQ dependencies that drop support for Python 3.5
> now that it is EOL which would limit the functionality of IntelMQ.
>
> So the basic question is, are there still (m)any setups out there that
> require IntelMQ to run with Python 3.5?
>
> cheers,
> Birger
>
>
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