Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (May 30 2025 at 21:15): Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (May 30 2025 at 21:15):alexcrichton opened PR #10876 from alexcrichton:update-sime-images to bytecodealliance:main:
We're getting quite a lot of spurious failures on CI due to a failure to install packages in Ubuntu 16.04 images. According to https://ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle Ubuntu 16.04 ended standard support 2 years ago and is nearing the end of "Pro Support". Overall it seems clear that this version is on the way out and mirrors are getting flakier, so this commit updates the images to 18.04 in an attempt to make CI more reliable under the assumption that mirrors for more recent versions of the distribution are more reliable.
This has the consequence though that release binaries are going to have a higher glibc requirement. That means if anyone is Downloading Wasmtime onto these older systems and running it then our precompiled binaries will no longer work.
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Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (May 30 2025 at 21:15):alexcrichton requested fitzgen for a review on PR #10876.
Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (May 30 2025 at 21:15):alexcrichton requested wasmtime-default-reviewers for a review on PR #10876.
Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (May 30 2025 at 23:54):abrown submitted PR review.
Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (May 30 2025 at 23:55):abrown commented on PR #10876:
This glibc change might be something to note in the Wasmtime meeting... or the release notes eventually?
Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (May 31 2025 at 01:36):alexcrichton updated PR #10876.
Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (May 31 2025 at 01:38):alexcrichton commented on PR #10876:
Good point, went ahead and added release notes while I'm thinking about it and I've added this to the next meeting agenda
Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Jun 05 2025 at 19:38):alexcrichton closed without merge PR #10876.
Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Jun 05 2025 at 19:38):alexcrichton commented on PR #10876:
I'm actually going to close this in favor of https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/issues/10930 and https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/issues/10931
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