Update from Debian 11 `bullseye` to Debian 12 `bookworm`

[MikeMcC399]

This is an enhancement suggestion to migrate Cypress Docker Image generation from Debian 11 bullseye to Debian 12 bookworm.

Background

Cypress Docker Images are currently built based on debian:bullseye-slim from https://hub.docker.com/_/debian

cypress-docker-images/factory/.env

Lines 7 to 8 in 103e75d

	# The debian image the factory is based on
	BASE_IMAGE='debian:bullseye-slim'

According to https://www.debian.org/releases/

• Debian 12 codenamed bookworm is the current stable release
• Debian 11 codenamed bullseye is the current oldstable release

https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/ states

• Debian 11.0 was initially released on August 14th, 2021
• Debian 11 has been superseded by Debian 12 (bookworm).

https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/ states

• Debian 12.5 was released on February 10th, 2024. Debian 12.0 was initially released on June 10th, 2023.

https://endoflife.date/debian has an overview of relevant end-of-life dates.

[MikeMcC399]

Docker Hub > debian offers an image with the tag debian:bookworm-slim for Debian 12.

[jherkel]

Is there any time schedule when this transition from old LTS to current LTS shall be finished?

[MikeMcC399]

@jherkel

Is there any time schedule when this transition from old LTS to current LTS shall be finished?

I cannot see any planning for this so far. The Cypress.io team might like to give feedback.

[MikeMcC399]

To update future Cypress Docker images to use Debian 12 would need changes to https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress-docker-images/blob/master/factory/.env

BASE_IMAGE='debian:12-slim'  

other versions should be updated at the same time

# Node Versions: https://nodejs.org/en/download/releases/
# using LTS version from https://nodejs.org/
FACTORY_DEFAULT_NODE_VERSION
FACTORY_VERSION
# Chrome versions: https://www.ubuntuupdates.org/package/google_chrome/stable/main/base/google-chrome-stable
CHROME_VERSION
# Cypress versions: https://www.npmjs.com/package/cypress
CYPRESS_VERSION
# Edge versions: https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/edge/pool/main/m/microsoft-edge-stable/
EDGE_VERSION
# Firefox versions: https://download-installer.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/firefox/releases/
FIREFOX_VERSION
# Yarn versions: https://www.npmjs.com/package/yarn
YARN_VERSION
# WEBKIT_VERSION # currently not defined

Schedule

Users may like to have Cypress Docker images based on the current stable release. That would favor Cypress adopting Debian 12 "Bookworm" now.

According to https://wiki.debian.org/LTS

Release	End of LTS Support
Debian 10 "Buster"	June 30, 2024
Debian 11 "Bullseye"	June 30, 2026
Debian 12 "Bookworm"	June 30, 2028

So the latest date for a migration to a later Debian version after Debian 11 "Bullseye" would be June 30, 2026

[gerwinbrunner]

For us this is a little more pressing since we need to run mongo in the image and that now requires libcrypto.so.3
which is only available in Debian 12 :(

Any idea when usage of Debian 12 would be possible?

[MikeMcC399]

@jennifer-shehane

Can you say if there are plans to migrate Cypress Docker images to a base of Debian 12? There hasn't been any reaction here so far from the Cypress.io team.

[MikeMcC399]

@gerwinbrunner

For us this is a little more pressing since we need to run mongo in the image and that now requires libcrypto.so.3 which is only available in Debian 12 :(

Looking at Mongo Platform Support it seems that both Debian 11 and 12 should be supported. Could you share any reference which describes about the need for Debian 12?

[gerwinbrunner]

Hmmm.... I just get the error output when running the image:

/root/.meteor/packages/meteor-tool/.2.15.0.m6soqv.cbqtg++os.linux.x86_64+web.browser+web.browser.legacy+web.cordova/mt-os.linux.x86_64/dev_bundle/mongodb/bin/mongod:
error while loading shared libraries: libcrypto.so.3: cannot open shared object
file: No such file or directory
Unexpected mongo exit code 127. Restarting.

[MikeMcC399]

@gerwinbrunner

Hmmm.... I just get the error output when running the image:

I'm not familiar with this, but it sounds like it is due to meteor-tool v2 which runs on the deprecated Node.js 14 version.

[gerwinbrunner]

indirectly you are right - but the actual issue is that it depends in the mongo client and that one needs newer os dependencies it seems.

libcrypto.so.3 is only avaliable in Debian 12 - not 11

And that causes the issue.

[rafi0101]

is there any plan for when this will be implemented?

[qskypl]

Also looking for it, with the Debian 11 version I'm not able to upgrade openssl to version 3, as the max one is for 1.1.1, which is already EoL and does not provide required functions.