Python Version included in the Platform Automation Toolkit Image

Products

• Concourse for VMware Tanzu

Issue/Introduction

The Platform Automation Toolkit Image contains a number of different python releases.

ii  python3                     3.10.6-1~22.04.1                        amd64        interactive high-level object-oriented language (default python3 version)

ii  python3-distutils           3.10.8-1~22.04                          all          distutils package for Python 3.x

ii  python3-lib2to3             3.10.8-1~22.04                          all          Interactive high-level object-oriented language (lib2to3)

ii  python3-minimal             3.10.6-1~22.04.1                        amd64        minimal subset of the Python language (default python3 version)

ii  python3-pip                 22.0.2+dfsg-1ubuntu0.7                  all          Python package installer

ii  python3-pkg-resources       59.6.0-1.2ubuntu0.22.04.3               all          Package Discovery and Resource Access using pkg_resources

ii  python3-setuptools          59.6.0-1.2ubuntu0.22.04.3               all          Python3 Distutils Enhancements

ii  python3-wheel               0.37.1-2ubuntu0.22.04.1                 all          built-package format for Python

ii  python3.10                  3.10.12-1~22.04.15                      amd64        Interactive high-level object-oriented language (version 3.10)

 

Currently, these use Python version 3.10.x. As per the Python documentation, 3.10 is End of life in October 2026.

https://devguide.python.org/versions/

Environment

Platform Automation Toolkit

Resolution

R&D are aware of this and are looking at updating the version of Python that is included in the image. Please monitor the release notes for updates regarding this:

https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-tanzu/platform/platform-automation-toolkit-for-tanzu/5-5/vmware-automation-toolkit/docs-release-notes.html