Microsoft has announced a temporary reprieve for developers who use VS Code to connect to servers, clouds, container, and other devices running on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. As I covered last week, Microsoft pushed out an update to VS Code that bumps its glibc requirement, dropping support for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (which uses an older version of glibc) in the process. Innocuous though it sounds, that move had a huge impact, leaving thousands of developers who use VS Code unable to connect to/work with devices running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS or other Linux distros using <glibc 2.27, including RHEL 7, CentOS 7, […]

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Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) has dropped support for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS — a move causing issues for thousands of developers. VS Code 1.86 (aka the ‘January 2024’ update) sees Microsoft bump the minimum build requirements for the text editor’s popular remote dev tools to ≥glibc 2.28. But given that servers, clouds, and containers running on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS use glibc 2.27, it means they no longer work. Although Ubuntu 18.04 is supported by Canonical until 2028 (through ESM) a major glibc upgrade is unlikely, meaning this “breaking change” is truly breaking workflows. To be clear: this does not […]

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