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CONTRIBUTING > Version Updates is updated with information concerning Debian releases and lifecycle transitions.

Motivation and Context

Debian release lifecycle transitions require re-configuration action of node Docker image variants.

CONTRIBUTING > Version Updates does not yet include any related description.

Debian Releases > Release life cycle states:

Debian announces its new stable release on a regular basis. The Debian release life cycle encompasses five years: the first three years of full support followed by two years of Long Term Support (LTS).

  • Release
  • End of Life (EOL) after 3 years
  • End of LTS after another 2 years, 5 years in total

When Debian transitions from EOL to LTS, the LTS support team defines and publishes LTS support architectures that may be only a subset of the architectures supported during the original release phase.

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Types of changes

  • Documentation
  • Version change (Update, remove or add more Node.js versions)
  • Variant change (Update, remove or add more variants, or versions of variants)
  • Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
  • New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
  • Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)
  • Other (none of the above)

Checklist

  • My code follows the code style of this project.
  • My change requires a change to the documentation.
  • I have updated the documentation accordingly.
  • I have read the CONTRIBUTING.md document.
  • All new and existing tests passed.

Signed-off-by: Mike McCready <66998419+MikeMcC399@users.noreply.github.com>
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MikeMcC399 force-pushed the debian-lifecycle-transitions branch from 69c5050 to b1fec91 Compare August 20, 2026 09:24
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See #2610 for unrelated fix to markdown-link-check failure.

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MikeMcC399 marked this pull request as ready for review August 20, 2026 09:54
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