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| author | Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org> | 2020-09-11 10:40:59 +1200 |
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| committer | Douglas Bagnall <dbagnall@samba.org> | 2020-10-01 01:18:38 +0000 |
| commit | 3e488255074da8dd3284bd9c8255fd1eff5133a9 (patch) | |
| tree | 7545aaa60a70b0568a34aed84248346b8d2effb9 /WHATSNEW.txt | |
| parent | 8557a52937e3a3319fa4bd9b18af792cee9ec528 (diff) | |
| download | samba-3e488255074da8dd3284bd9c8255fd1eff5133a9.tar.gz | |
build: Remove Python2 support from the build
BUG: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14488
Signed-off-by: Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: Douglas Bagnall <douglas.bagnall@catalyst.net.nz>
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diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt index 3927c0645f1..983dc4761fc 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW.txt +++ b/WHATSNEW.txt @@ -55,6 +55,17 @@ CTDB CHANGES scripts and can be checked by users with "ctdb pnn" and "ctdb recmaster". +Python 3.6 or later required +---------------------------- + +Samba's minimum runtime requirement for python was raised to Python +3.6 with samba 4.13. Samba 4.14 raises this minimum version to Python +3.6 also to build Samba. It is no longer possible to build Samba +(even just the file server) with Python versions 2.6 and 2.7. + +As Python 2.7 has been End Of Life upstream since April 2020, Samba +is dropping ALL Python 2.x support in this release. + NT4-like 'classic' Samba domain controllers ------------------------------------------- |