Tested Runtimes for Stein

It is the policy that each OpenStack release cycle will target the currently available runtimes on the LTS or stable distributions at the start of a development cycle.

At the start of the Stein development cycle, the current versions are:

  • Ubuntu 18.04

  • CentOS 7

Python Runtime for Stein

Based on the available Python runtimes for the supported Linux distributions, all Python-based projects must target and test against, at a minimum:

  • Python 2.7

  • Python 3.6

More details on Python requirements can be found in Project Testing Interface: Python.

Golang Runtime for Stein

At this time, there are still frequent releases of Go with a wide variety of distribution packaged versions. Given the current state of Go support and the number of projects within OpenStack using Go, no formal version declaration is being made at this time.

More details on Go requirements can be found in Project Testing Interface: Go.