Breaking changes

Python 3.7.x will be removed from Windows 2019, Windows 2022, Ubuntu 20 and Ubuntu 22 images.

Target date

Image deployment will start on December 2 2024, will take 3-4 days.

The motivation for the changes

As per our software support policy, we are supporting only 5 most popular python versions while python 3.6.x has been EOL since ( 27 Jun 2023)

Possible impact

If your projects depend on python 3.7.x they might be broken.

Platforms affected

• Azure DevOps
• GitHub Actions

Runner images affected

• Ubuntu 20.04
• Ubuntu 22.04
• Ubuntu 24.04
• macOS 12
• macOS 13
• macOS 13 Arm64
• macOS 14
• macOS 14 Arm64
• macOS 15
• macOS 15 Arm64
• Windows Server 2019
• Windows Server 2022

Mitigation ways

For GitHub Actions the python 3.7.x archives will still be available through the actions/setup-python action.