<div dir="ltr"><div id="gmail-magicdomid21" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-pn5z65zxniz83zw4z65z20lky">Hi everyone,</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid31" class="gmail-ace-line"><br></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid122" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-pn5z65zxniz83zw4z65z20lky">The server team is about to start a transition to Ruby 2.7</span><span class="gmail-author-a-z68zi5qn1z84zz77zz89zz80znz74z4ipx">,</span><span class="gmail-author-a-pn5z65zxniz83zw4z65z20lky"> targeting </span><span class="gmail-author-a-z68zi5qn1z84zz77zz89zz80znz74z4ipx">the </span><span class="gmail-author-a-pn5z65zxniz83zw4z65z20lky">Focal release.</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid32" class="gmail-ace-line"><br></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid194" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-pn5z65zxniz83zw4z65z20lky">The current version in the archive is 2.5 and many changes that our users might take advantage of were introduced in Ruby 2.6 [1] and 2.7 [2]. Since </span><span class="gmail-author-a-z68zi5qn1z84zz77zz89zz80znz74z4ipx">2.7</span><span class="gmail-author-a-pn5z65zxniz83zw4z65z20lky"> is a LTS release it is in our great interest </span><span class="gmail-author-a-z68zi5qn1z84zz77zz89zz80znz74z4ipx">to </span><span class="gmail-author-a-pn5z65zxniz83zw4z65z20lky">ship th</span><span class="gmail-author-a-z68zi5qn1z84zz77zz89zz80znz74z4ipx">is</span><span class="gmail-author-a-pn5z65zxniz83zw4z65z20lky"> latest version</span><span class="gmail-author-a-z68zi5qn1z84zz77zz89zz80znz74z4ipx">, as it will be maintained upstream until 202</span><span class="gmail-author-a-pn5z65zxniz83zw4z65z20lky">3 (probably until March)</span><span class="gmail-author-a-z68zi5qn1z84zz77zz89zz80znz74z4ipx">; maintenance on 2.5 ends at the beginning of next year</span><span class="gmail-author-a-pn5z65zxniz83zw4z65z20lky">.</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid36" class="gmail-ace-line"><br></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid127" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-pn5z65zxniz83zw4z65z20lky">I've been rebuilding the reverse dependencies reported by ben in a PPA [3] and we are good to go, 166 source packages building fine against Ruby 2.7 (no FTBFS). We also have the tracker page for this transition [4] (thanks to doko). We are going ahead of Debian here to get it done in time for the feature freeze, but I've been pushing it forward in Debian as well and I'll make sure we have most of the things in sync.</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid37" class="gmail-ace-line"><br></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid138" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-pn5z65zxniz83zw4z65z20lky">If you have any concerns about this transition let us know. We plan to kick this off </span><span class="gmail-author-a-z68zi5qn1z84zz77zz89zz80znz74z4ipx">this week</span><span class="gmail-author-a-pn5z65zxniz83zw4z65z20lky">.</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid38" class="gmail-ace-line"><br></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid26" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-pn5z65zxniz83zw4z65z20lky">Lucas Kanashiro.</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid39" class="gmail-ace-line"><br></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid27" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-pn5z65zxniz83zw4z65z20lky">[1] </span><span class="gmail-author-a-pn5z65zxniz83zw4z65z20lky gmail-url"><a href="https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2018/12/25/ruby-2-6-0-released/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2018/12/25/ruby-2-6-0-released/</a></span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid28" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-pn5z65zxniz83zw4z65z20lky">[2] </span><span class="gmail-author-a-pn5z65zxniz83zw4z65z20lky gmail-url"><a href="https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2019/12/25/ruby-2-7-0-released/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2019/12/25/ruby-2-7-0-released/</a></span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid29" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-pn5z65zxniz83zw4z65z20lky">[3] </span><span class="gmail-author-a-pn5z65zxniz83zw4z65z20lky gmail-url"><a href="https://launchpad.net/~lucaskanashiro/+archive/ubuntu/focal-ruby2.7-transition" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://launchpad.net/~lucaskanashiro/+archive/ubuntu/focal-ruby2.7-transition</a></span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid30" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-pn5z65zxniz83zw4z65z20lky">[4] </span><span class="gmail-author-a-pn5z65zxniz83zw4z65z20lky gmail-url"><a href="https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/transitions/html/html/ruby2.7-add.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/transitions/html/html/ruby2.7-add.html</a></span></div></div>