Repo2docker (and mybinder.org) upgrading base image to ubuntu 22.04

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The repo2docker base image, which powers builds on mybinder.org, is being upgraded from the Ubuntu 18.04-based buildpack-deps:bionic, which has reached its end of support, to the 22.04-based buildpack-deps:jammy . Very little in the host system is used by repo2docker (upgrading the version required no other changes to repo2docker), so most repos are unlikely to be affected. But if you use apt.txt, custom commands that make assumptions about the base system (some package names or versions may have changed), or the system compilers (may be used building dependencies), upgrading the distro version can change things, and your repos may need updating.

As always, let us know here if you have questions or issues, or report bugs.

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No-one’s raised any blockers, so this will be deployed to production mybinder.org very soon!
Upgrade base image from to Ubuntu 22.04 from 18.04 by yuvipanda · Pull Request #1287 · jupyterhub/repo2docker · GitHub

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Hi! I see that the pull request has been merged. Is this going to be deployed any time soon?

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Keep an eye on Update quay.io/jupyterhub/repo2docker version to 2023.06.0-24.g8c32db9 by jupyterhub-bot · Pull Request #2742 · jupyterhub/mybinder.org-deploy · GitHub

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mybinder.org has just been updated to use Ubuntu 22.04 as the base image!

Hopefully most people won’t notice anything. The main breaking change is for anyone using apt.txt packages, since the available packages and versions are decided by the base operating system. If you’re lucky the package versions in Ubuntu 22.04 will be compatible with those in 18.04 and you won’t notice anything, otherwise see our upgrade guide:

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