Are you (Posit) going to compile RStudio builds specific for the latest Ubuntu 24.04 LTS version any time soon?

[andresrcs]

You state to support all currently supported Ubuntu LTS versions but the latest 24.04 LTS version has been out for a while and there are no builds specific for it yet. I know the builds for 22.04 LTS work just fine on it but, not having a build specific for it, it messes up with "infrastructure as code" automation

[tom_rstudio]

Thanks for your interest @andresrcs !

A few updates:

• We won’t have official support for Ubuntu 24 until the Cranberry Hibiscus release, currently targeted as 2024.07
• We would likely have it as Ubuntu 22/24 on the download page - we often have dual support like Ubuntu 18/20 in the past
• The jammy-amd64 object will have the right content in the API if you are trying to pull it in programatically.

[andresrcs]

Thanks for the updates, it's nice to know what to expect. About the programmatic thing, I manage systems with different OS versions (sadly, some cloud computing providers update later than others) so I use something like this

- name: Download rstudio-server stable
    get_url:
      url: "https://download2.rstudio.org/server/{{ ansible_distribution_release }}/amd64/rstudio-server-{{ rstudio_version.replace('+', '-') }}-amd64.deb"
      dest: ~/rstudio-server-{{ rstudio_version }}-amd64.deb

I'll have to think on a walk around, no big deal