Images.json changes

[Jimbo]

I noticed the images.json URL was changed to https://uk.lxd.images.canonical.com/streams/v1/images.json and there is some difference to the structure, for example, some images dont have combined_squashfs_sha256 key which I think they all did before.

Also some images have disappeared e.g. Hirsute Hippo, is there a resource pointing to changes made here or how it is suppose to work. etc?

Thanks.

[tomp (Thomas Parrott)]

You may be referring to this:

Update to our image servers

Hello, We’ve recently been doing some work to modernize and improve our image servers. New mirrors The two frontend servers provided by Canonical Ltd. have been replaced by four new servers, two in the UK and two in the US, providing additional capacity and making maintenance easier by not having to temporarily re-route all traffic to another continent. We always recommend everyone interact with our image servers through https://images.linuxcontainers.org which will then send you to the clos…

As for missing images, Hirsute Hippo is now End Of Life (EOL) and so is removed from the image servers as we do not maintain unsupported images.

https://fridge.ubuntu.com/2022/01/21/ubuntu-21-04-hirsute-hippo-end-of-life-reached-on-january-20-2022/