Recently, there have been a lot of questions about LTS release-building procedures. We are making changes in that area — not least due to specific p

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2024-04-25 14:00:02

Recently, there have been a lot of questions about LTS release-building procedures. We are making changes in that area — not least due to specific patterns in user behavior, and now it's a good time to discuss that.

The approach to building LTS branches will change soon: it will be possible to build using our online building platform (VyOS Image Builder Enhanced) when it’s ready.

The service will be affordable but not free of charge — you will be required to pay for consumed resources like storage, CPU, and traffic used to build images. The alternative will be to build everything from source — we will keep rolling release package repositories available to everyone, but if you want to build LTS releases, the process of building custom packages, assembling them into repositories, and building images will be on you.

Historically, we made building LTS releases exceptionally easy. This is not an exaggeration: we are unaware of any distro that would provide an equivalent of our make iso .