General Announcements

In this section you can find general updates that affect the current CloudShell release as well as earlier and future releases.

[Jan 2019]

Microsoft Products End of Support

The following list includes Microsoft products retiring or reaching the end of support in January 2020:

• Windows 7
• Windows servers 2008 and 2008 R2
• SQL server 2008 and 2008 R2

As a result, the next CloudShell version will no longer support above mentioned Win and SQL server versions.

For more information, see the Microsoft's Lifecycle Policy here.

[Jan 2019]

Python 2.7 Retirement

As of January 2020, new CloudShell shells and orchestration scripts will be developed in Python 3 only.

Existing shells and orchestration scripts, which were developed in Python 2.7, will continue to be supported for issue resolution until end of 2020 and will be migrated to Python 3. Quali's Integrations page will display both Python 2.7 and Python 3 shells side-by-side.

End of support of Python 2.7 shells is Jan 1st 2021. Customers who have an issue with python 2.7 shells will be required to upgrade to the latest CloudShell release and use Python 3 shells.