CircleCI: Brown-out Deprecating Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 images: any customer still running jobs utilizing a ubuntu 14.04 or 16.04 based machine image will have jobs fail during the following timeframes
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Attention Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 machine image users. These images are temporarily unavailable in advance of their May 31, 2022 end of life. Migrate from 14.04 or 16.04. - UTC 00:00 — 01:00 - UTC 10:00 — 11:00 - UTC 15:00 — 16:00 Action Required: migrate to a supported version of Ubuntu machine image Migration Guides: 14.04 to 20.04 16.04 to 20.04 Blog Posts: https://circleci.com/blog/why-brownouts/ (opens in new tab) https://circleci.com/blog/ubuntu-14-16-image-deprecation/ (opens in new tab)
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Status incident (vendor impact label: none) posted by CircleCI, started 2022-04-26 00:00 UTC, resolved after 0 min, 1 update(s).
- Title
- Brown-out Deprecating Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 images: any customer still running jobs utilizing a ubuntu 14.04 or 16.04 based machine image will have jobs fail during the following timeframes
- Vendor
- CircleCI
- Date
- URL
- https://rewindex.com/company/circleci/incidents/sggkqt1yft4c
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