Supported Operating Systems: From freshly deprecated, to newly supported

This year, a variety of operating systems have reached EOL and newly released. When it comes to Salt support, this means several updates have happened.

Documentation for both LTS and STS:

NOTE: 3007.x STS supported operating systems documentation will update with the next 3007.2 release to reflect the content of this blog post.

Deprecated Operating Systems (no longer supported)

  • Photon OS 3
  • RHEL 7
  • CentOS 7
  • CentOS Stream 8
  • Debian 10
  • Fedora 37 and Fedora 38 (only supporting latest Fedora)
  • FreeBSD (not officially supported, but is maintained by community members)

Newly Supported Operating Systems

  • Ubuntu 24.04
  • Fedora 40
  • Rocky Linux 8 and Rocky Linux 9
  • OpenSUSE Leap 15.5 (replaces OpenSUSE Leap 15.4)
  • SLES 15 SP5 (replaces SLES 15 SP4)

Supported Operating Systems no longer tested in CI/CD

  • AlmaLinux 8 and AlmaLinux 9
  • CentOS Stream 9