Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Noble Numbat

[vsarunas]

It would be highly advantageous for the Swift 6 development process to consider building and releasing Ubuntu 24.04 LTS packages. This new release of Ubuntu, detailed here and further elaborated in the release notes, offers extended support that lasts for five years, until June 2029.

Currently, Swift packages are available for Ubuntu 18.04, but this older version reached the end of its standard support in May 2023, as noted here.

[finagolfin]

A docker image for 24.04 was added last month, #380, that is the first step towards producing builds.

[vsarunas]

Thanks!

I had looked in https://github.com/apple/swift-docker/tree/main/nightly-6.0/ubuntu prior creating the case rather than the master folder.

[finagolfin]

@shahmishal, any plans to add an official 24.04 build for the next 5.10 patch release? I noticed that the github CI is preparing a runner image for 24.04 and left Swift out, actions/runner-images#9848, likely because there is no official 24.04 release of 5.10.

[hassila]

https://forums.swift.org/t/announcing-swift-5-10-1-for-linux-and-windows/72292

[finagolfin]

Yes, I saw and already notified the github people, but technically this issue is about the upcoming Swift 6 supporting 24.04, which hasn't been added yet, so this issue can be kept open if the original reporter wants.

[FranzBusch]

@shahmishal We already have Swift release images for Ubuntu noble can we also get nightly 6 and main noble images?

[finagolfin]

It's being worked on.