overlap or pre-announcement for point release ISO downloads

[Lukasz Zemczak]

It's as dann mentioned. This, of course, is only the case for our main
Ubuntu flavor though.

There is also an automatic redirect for
http://releases.ubuntu.com/20.04.3/ to old-images.

Cheers,

On Wed, 2 Mar 2022 at 10:11, Anthony Kirby <anthony.kirby at oxbotica.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 1 Mar 2022 at 19:09, dann frazier <dann.frazier at canonical.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 01, 2022 at 03:44:17PM +0000, Anthony Kirby wrote:
>> > Thank you for the recent point release of Focal, i.e. 20.04.4!
>> >
>> > When the 20.04.4 point release was announced (
>> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2022-February/000277.html),
>> > the previous point release server download  i.e.
>> > https://releases.ubuntu.com/focal/ubuntu-20.04.3-live-server-amd64.iso was
>> > removed.
>> >
>> > Could you consider an overlap period, so that people who consume this have
>> > an opportunity to update their processes?  A week of overlap before the the
>> > previous version is deleted would be really helpful.  Or alternatively an
>> > announcement that the switch was about to occur would give people a chance
>> > to prepare.
>>
>> Hi Anthony!
>>
>>   I'm not a release team member, but I'm curious about your use
>> case. If you are e.g. scripting a download of the ISO, would it be
>> possible to build in an automatic fallback to the old-releases
>> archive?
>>
>>   https://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/focal/
>>
>>   -dann
>
>
> Hi dann,
> thank you, that's a good solution, I wasn't aware that old-releases existed.
> cheers
> Anthony
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