Are There More Recent Releases of Debian? (like Debian-13)

It would probably be appropriate to shift them to the testing repos.

What do you mean exactly? We don’t delete template so they still exist.

I too have wished I had an EOL Fedora release resembling Qubes 4.0 dom0, at times.

On a current Qubes 4.0 that already has all varieties of centos-8, debian-10, fedora-33, and whonix-15 templates, here’s what I’m getting using the onionized repos:

$ sudo qubes-dom0-update --enablerepo="qubes-templates-itl" --action="search qubes-template*"
======================== Name Matched: qubes-template* =========================
qubes-template-debian-9.noarch : Qubes template for debian-9
qubes-template-debian-9-minimal.noarch : Qubes template for debian-9-minimal
qubes-template-fedora-29.noarch : Qubes template for fedora-29
qubes-template-fedora-29-minimal.noarch : Qubes template for fedora-29-minimal
qubes-template-fedora-29-xfce.noarch : Qubes template for fedora-29-xfce
qubes-template-fedora-30.noarch : Qubes template for fedora-30
qubes-template-fedora-30-minimal.noarch : Qubes template for fedora-30-minimal
qubes-template-fedora-30-xfce.noarch : Qubes template for fedora-30-xfce
qubes-template-fedora-31.noarch : Qubes template for fedora-31
qubes-template-fedora-31-minimal.noarch : Qubes template for fedora-31-minimal
qubes-template-fedora-31-xfce.noarch : Qubes template for fedora-31-xfce
qubes-template-fedora-32.noarch : Qubes template for fedora-32
qubes-template-fedora-32-minimal.noarch : Qubes template for fedora-32-minimal
qubes-template-fedora-32-xfce.noarch : Qubes template for fedora-32-xfce

$ sudo qubes-dom0-update --enablerepo="qubes-templates-community" --action="search qubes-template*"
======================== Name Matched: qubes-template* =========================
qubes-template-centos-7.noarch : Qubes template for centos-7
qubes-template-centos-7-minimal.noarch : Qubes template for centos-7-minimal
qubes-template-centos-7-xfce.noarch : Qubes template for centos-7-xfce
qubes-template-debian-9.noarch : Qubes template for debian-9
qubes-template-debian-9-minimal.noarch : Qubes template for debian-9-minimal
qubes-template-fedora-29.noarch : Qubes template for fedora-29
qubes-template-fedora-29-minimal.noarch : Qubes template for fedora-29-minimal
qubes-template-fedora-29-xfce.noarch : Qubes template for fedora-29-xfce
qubes-template-fedora-30.noarch : Qubes template for fedora-30
qubes-template-fedora-30-minimal.noarch : Qubes template for fedora-30-minimal
qubes-template-fedora-30-xfce.noarch : Qubes template for fedora-30-xfce
qubes-template-fedora-31.noarch : Qubes template for fedora-31
qubes-template-fedora-31-minimal.noarch : Qubes template for fedora-31-minimal
qubes-template-fedora-31-xfce.noarch : Qubes template for fedora-31-xfce
qubes-template-fedora-32.noarch : Qubes template for fedora-32
qubes-template-fedora-32-minimal.noarch : Qubes template for fedora-32-minimal
qubes-template-fedora-32-xfce.noarch : Qubes template for fedora-32-xfce
qubes-template-whonix-gw.noarch : Qubes template for whonix-gw
qubes-template-whonix-gw-14.noarch : Qubes template for whonix-gw-14
qubes-template-whonix-ws.noarch : Qubes template for whonix-ws
qubes-template-whonix-ws-14.noarch : Qubes template for whonix-ws-14

$ sudo qubes-dom0-update --enablerepo="qubes-templates-community-testing" --action="search qubes-template*"
======================== Name Matched: qubes-template* =========================
qubes-template-centos-7.noarch : Qubes template for centos-7
qubes-template-centos-7-minimal.noarch : Qubes template for centos-7-minimal
qubes-template-centos-7-xfce.noarch : Qubes template for centos-7-xfce
qubes-template-debian-9.noarch : Qubes template for debian-9
qubes-template-debian-9-minimal.noarch : Qubes template for debian-9-minimal
qubes-template-fedora-29.noarch : Qubes template for fedora-29
qubes-template-fedora-29-minimal.noarch : Qubes template for fedora-29-minimal
qubes-template-fedora-29-xfce.noarch : Qubes template for fedora-29-xfce
qubes-template-fedora-30.noarch : Qubes template for fedora-30
qubes-template-fedora-30-minimal.noarch : Qubes template for fedora-30-minimal
qubes-template-fedora-30-xfce.noarch : Qubes template for fedora-30-xfce
qubes-template-fedora-31.noarch : Qubes template for fedora-31
qubes-template-fedora-31-minimal.noarch : Qubes template for fedora-31-minimal
qubes-template-fedora-31-xfce.noarch : Qubes template for fedora-31-xfce
qubes-template-fedora-32.noarch : Qubes template for fedora-32
qubes-template-fedora-32-minimal.noarch : Qubes template for fedora-32-minimal
qubes-template-fedora-32-xfce.noarch : Qubes template for fedora-32-xfce
qubes-template-whonix-gw-14.noarch : Qubes template for whonix-gw-14
qubes-template-whonix-ws-14.noarch : Qubes template for whonix-ws-14

$ sudo qubes-dom0-update --enablerepo="qubes-templates-itl-testing" --action="search qubes-template*"
======================== Name Matched: qubes-template* =========================
qubes-template-debian-11.noarch : Qubes template for debian-11
qubes-template-debian-9.noarch : Qubes template for debian-9
qubes-template-debian-9-minimal.noarch : Qubes template for debian-9-minimal
qubes-template-fedora-29.noarch : Qubes template for fedora-29
qubes-template-fedora-29-minimal.noarch : Qubes template for fedora-29-minimal
qubes-template-fedora-29-xfce.noarch : Qubes template for fedora-29-xfce
qubes-template-fedora-30.noarch : Qubes template for fedora-30
qubes-template-fedora-30-minimal.noarch : Qubes template for fedora-30-minimal
qubes-template-fedora-30-xfce.noarch : Qubes template for fedora-30-xfce
qubes-template-fedora-31.noarch : Qubes template for fedora-31
qubes-template-fedora-31-minimal.noarch : Qubes template for fedora-31-minimal
qubes-template-fedora-31-xfce.noarch : Qubes template for fedora-31-xfce
qubes-template-fedora-32.noarch : Qubes template for fedora-32
qubes-template-fedora-32-minimal.noarch : Qubes template for fedora-32-minimal
qubes-template-fedora-32-xfce.noarch : Qubes template for fedora-32-xfce
qubes-template-fedora-34.noarch : Qubes template for fedora-34
qubes-template-fedora-34-minimal.noarch : Qubes template for fedora-34-minimal
qubes-template-fedora-34-xfce.noarch : Qubes template for fedora-34-xfce

Are older official templates archived somewhere that I’ve overlooked?

Appreciate all you’ve done and continue to do @fepitre
Thanks!

Oh, if people have a need for them, then by all means, keep them. I only suggested it because I’ve seen a great many Qubes users, over the years, still using releases after they’ve gone EOL, presumably not realizing how detrimental it is to their security. I’m always on the lookout for simple, easy ways to keep users more secure, and it seemed like removing dangerous options from their fingertips would fit the bill.

That sounds like a nice way to make them available to users who know what they’re doing while keeping them safely away from users who don’t. But they won’t actually be “in testing,” so it might be a bit confusing.

Indeed, EOL release are not being tested for the future, but they are probably available for testing purposes. Alternatively, one could create “obsolete” repository.

The build is currently broken for 4.0.
As soon as that is fixed, a new template will be built and pushed to
testing.

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