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> You may upgrade your Jellyfin instances at any time now, however please read on for a complete detailing of what's new and changed, including some very import

> You may upgrade your Jellyfin instances at any time now, however please read on for a complete detailing of what's new and changed, including some very important release notes.. > Ubuntu users: We have dropped support for non-LTS Ubuntu releases with 10.9.0. That is, we have not built 10.9.0 packages for any releases except 20.04 LTS, 22.04 LTS, and 24.04 LTS, and we will not publish builds for any new non-LTS releases going forward. You know that stupidly nice Ubuntu 18.04 LTS box you painstakingly setup just four years ago right before the pandemic that you can't trust to auto-upgrade? Go fuck yourself. I'm done with Shibuntu, now Debian only with no regrets or downsides so far. Downvotes welcome, but p.s. I love you <3. Wasn't docker supposed to make OS release irrelevant? Sigh, I love you all.

BHSPitMonkey 2y ago
> nice Ubuntu 18.04 box you painstakingly setup just four years ago It's 2024; 18.04 was over 6 years ago.
- metadat 2y ago
  This is false, 2018.06 was 4 years and 11 months ago. Just saying, not true. And it's been totally abandoned for some time now, at least two years by my estimate. How often do you rebuild your bare metal garage snowflakes?
  - ceinewydd 2y ago
    Every 12 months or so because it’s mostly automated with netboot.xyz and Ansible.
  - michaelmrose 2y ago
    2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 18.06 was 5 years 11 months 11 days. A: it makes no sense to count from when you personally installed it vs when it was released. B: it was in any case so close to 6 we may as well say it was 6 years C: if you don't mind running 6 year old software just run old jellyfin too.
ceinewydd 2y ago
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS went EOL in May 2023 for anyone not paying Canonical for ESM, so their choice to not build for it seems entirely reasonable.
Hock88sdx 2y ago
Why not upgrade Ubuntu instead? Surely you can get the benefits of new security latches and other software updated as well? Indirectly then uou get this version of Jellyfin?
- WirelessGigabit 2y ago
  The problem I find is that whatever comes after 24.04 and before 26.04 will not be supported by Jellyfin.
  - Caligatio 2y ago
    LTS releases will only upgrade to other LTS releases unless you configure it differently. Just avoid non-LTS releases.
rgoulter 2y ago
> I'm done with [Ubuntu], now Debian only with no regrets or downsides so far. There's no OS in the world which has both of "requires no maintenance" and "receives all upgrades forever".
- metadat 2y ago
  But 4 years is a pretty short time. Compare 4 years with the 20+ evil Microsoft Windows gives to pirates for free.. when $ms doesn't really have to.. dozens of years of compatibility. Linux sucks in this dimension, and I am a huge advocate professionally and personally of Linux. Have you ever tried to install the latest Node.js and discovered your glibc.so is too old? It's a major impediment and just plain sucks, especially for open source.
  - jauntywundrkind 2y ago
    18.04 is from 2018. That's what the "18" means. That's 6 years. Apt-get dist upgrade is really not hard. Learn it, do it. Society & world has a necessity to not anchor itself to a distant past. In general I believe free software is moving at a bit more incremental pace, with some noticeable new innovation sprinkled in. But a 4.15 kernel from 2018 really is from a before time, before things started settling down. I have no respect for preserving those systems. Anchoring ourselves to the past is antithetical to open source's strengths.
    - metadat 2y ago
      It's hosed several of my machines before, please forgive me Father, but never again.
- m463 2y ago
  remember: desktop users want the latest software, now. server users want nothing to change, ever.
- BrandoElFollito 2y ago
  Arch is quite close to that. I moved from Debian to Arch for my main home server because I was fed up with reinstalling between versions. Now I think you can upgrade in place. I will be back to Debian at some point because Arch requires me to remember to update. It works great but since I have everything on docker it depends not make much sense to be bleeding edge
urda 2y ago
18.04 went out of service for non-pro, non-legacy users over a year ago. You've had a year to upgrade the machine, now is the time to move up to the best LTS you can run. This is 100% on you.
m463 2y ago
I like arch linux. It seems to be a good balance between up-to-date and stable. You have to be conscious when you set it up, and I diligently keep notes of what I did.
- Caligatio 2y ago
  I use Arch on my desktop and it's definitely more up-to-date than stable. The Plasma 6 upgrade rendered one install a black screen and I've had to rescue installs because I wasn't on top of Arch News. I do enjoy my Arch desktop but it's a labor of love.
Caligatio 2y ago
I'm super confused: doesn't Debian also have a 5 year support cycle? How is Debian better than Ubuntu on this particular issue? I've been upgrading the same Ubuntu server across LTS releases since 14.04 - now on 22.04 - without any major issues. Spending 30 minutes every two years to upgrade major versions isn't that big of a lift.
- metadat 2y ago
  The Debian upgrade process actually works.
  - Caligatio 2y ago
    I'm guessing I've done 6 in-place upgrades over the last decade and have yet to have one fail. It sounds like maybe you've had issues but the process does typically work.
    - metadat 2y ago
      "Maybe" is a major understatement on the Ubuntu upgrade fail front, friend.
upon_drumhead 2y ago
> Wasn't docker supposed to make OS release irrelevant? As someone who is running Jellyfin 10.9.0 on Ubuntu 18.04 via docker, yes, it really has. The non-support only matters for directly installing the Debian packages. Docker continues to work just fine.
- metadat 2y ago
  Sweet, thank goodness - Thank you @upon_drumhead!!!
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BHSPitMonkey 2y ago

> nice Ubuntu 18.04 box you painstakingly setup just four years ago It's 2024; 18.04 was over 6 years ago.

metadat 2y ago
This is false, 2018.06 was 4 years and 11 months ago. Just saying, not true. And it's been totally abandoned for some time now, at least two years by my estimate. How often do you rebuild your bare metal garage snowflakes?
- ceinewydd 2y ago
  Every 12 months or so because it’s mostly automated with netboot.xyz and Ansible.
- michaelmrose 2y ago
  2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 18.06 was 5 years 11 months 11 days. A: it makes no sense to count from when you personally installed it vs when it was released. B: it was in any case so close to 6 we may as well say it was 6 years C: if you don't mind running 6 year old software just run old jellyfin too.

ceinewydd 2y ago

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS went EOL in May 2023 for anyone not paying Canonical for ESM, so their choice to not build for it seems entirely reasonable.

Hock88sdx 2y ago

Why not upgrade Ubuntu instead? Surely you can get the benefits of new security latches and other software updated as well? Indirectly then uou get this version of Jellyfin?

WirelessGigabit 2y ago
The problem I find is that whatever comes after 24.04 and before 26.04 will not be supported by Jellyfin.
- Caligatio 2y ago
  LTS releases will only upgrade to other LTS releases unless you configure it differently. Just avoid non-LTS releases.

rgoulter 2y ago

> I'm done with [Ubuntu], now Debian only with no regrets or downsides so far. There's no OS in the world which has both of "requires no maintenance" and "receives all upgrades forever".

metadat 2y ago
But 4 years is a pretty short time. Compare 4 years with the 20+ evil Microsoft Windows gives to pirates for free.. when $ms doesn't really have to.. dozens of years of compatibility. Linux sucks in this dimension, and I am a huge advocate professionally and personally of Linux. Have you ever tried to install the latest Node.js and discovered your glibc.so is too old? It's a major impediment and just plain sucks, especially for open source.
- jauntywundrkind 2y ago
  18.04 is from 2018. That's what the "18" means. That's 6 years. Apt-get dist upgrade is really not hard. Learn it, do it. Society & world has a necessity to not anchor itself to a distant past. In general I believe free software is moving at a bit more incremental pace, with some noticeable new innovation sprinkled in. But a 4.15 kernel from 2018 really is from a before time, before things started settling down. I have no respect for preserving those systems. Anchoring ourselves to the past is antithetical to open source's strengths.
  - metadat 2y ago
    It's hosed several of my machines before, please forgive me Father, but never again.
m463 2y ago
remember: desktop users want the latest software, now. server users want nothing to change, ever.
BrandoElFollito 2y ago
Arch is quite close to that. I moved from Debian to Arch for my main home server because I was fed up with reinstalling between versions. Now I think you can upgrade in place. I will be back to Debian at some point because Arch requires me to remember to update. It works great but since I have everything on docker it depends not make much sense to be bleeding edge

urda 2y ago

18.04 went out of service for non-pro, non-legacy users over a year ago. You've had a year to upgrade the machine, now is the time to move up to the best LTS you can run. This is 100% on you.

m463 2y ago

I like arch linux. It seems to be a good balance between up-to-date and stable. You have to be conscious when you set it up, and I diligently keep notes of what I did.

Caligatio 2y ago
I use Arch on my desktop and it's definitely more up-to-date than stable. The Plasma 6 upgrade rendered one install a black screen and I've had to rescue installs because I wasn't on top of Arch News. I do enjoy my Arch desktop but it's a labor of love.

Caligatio 2y ago

I'm super confused: doesn't Debian also have a 5 year support cycle? How is Debian better than Ubuntu on this particular issue? I've been upgrading the same Ubuntu server across LTS releases since 14.04 - now on 22.04 - without any major issues. Spending 30 minutes every two years to upgrade major versions isn't that big of a lift.

metadat 2y ago
The Debian upgrade process actually works.
- Caligatio 2y ago
  I'm guessing I've done 6 in-place upgrades over the last decade and have yet to have one fail. It sounds like maybe you've had issues but the process does typically work.
  - metadat 2y ago
    "Maybe" is a major understatement on the Ubuntu upgrade fail front, friend.

upon_drumhead 2y ago

> Wasn't docker supposed to make OS release irrelevant? As someone who is running Jellyfin 10.9.0 on Ubuntu 18.04 via docker, yes, it really has. The non-support only matters for directly installing the Debian packages. Docker continues to work just fine.

metadat 2y ago
Sweet, thank goodness - Thank you @upon_drumhead!!!
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