Re: [PATCH 0/4] Raise the bar with regards to Python and Sphinx requirements
From: Kees Cook
Date: Tue Feb 11 2025 - 12:58:54 EST
On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 07:19:00AM +0100, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> This series increases the minimal requirements for Sphinx and Python, and
> drop some backward-compatible code from Sphinx extension.
>
> Looking at Sphinx release dates:
>
> Release 2.4.0 (released Feb 09, 2020)
> Release 2.4.4 (released Mar 05, 2020) (current minimal requirement)
> Release 3.4.0 (released Dec 20, 2020)
> Release 3.4.3 (released Jan 08, 2021)
>
> (https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/changes/index.html)
(And those are positively ancient versions, too! 8.1.3 is current...)
> And Python release dates, we have:
>
> Python Release date
> 3.5 2015-09-13 (current minimal requirement)
> 3.6 2016-12-23
> 3.7 2018-06-27
> 3.8 2019-10-14
> 3.9 2020-10-05
> 3.10 2021-10-04
>
> (according with https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History_of_Python)
>
> The new minimal requirements are now compatible with the toolset available on Jan, 2021,
> e.g.:
> - Sphinx 3.4.3;
> - Python 3.9
I just did a quick sanity check against Ubuntu releases, and it all
looks fine: Ubuntu 20.04 had sphinx 1.8.5, so it already can't build the
docs. Ubuntu 22.04 has sphinx 4.3.2, so all good. Ubuntu 22.04 also has
Python 3.10, so also okay.
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Kees Cook