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debugging.

Clients older than 5.0 are all after their end of support date at
this point. However, to give users some room for migration and
because it's an easy and cheap thing to do, we also allow
installation of client 4 in the converted images.

Dropping support for older clients (the 3.5 client, in
particular) gives us room to simplify things.

BREAKING CHANGE: Installation of Mender Client older than 4.0 is
no longer supported.

Ticket: MEN-8476
Changelog: Dropped support for clients before version 4
Signed-off-by: Vratislav Podzimek <[email protected]>
Instead of custom magic downloading and installing individual
packages from the repos, `apt` package manager is now used to do
its job, including dependency resolution and installation, and
signature+checksum verification, among other things.

BREAKING CHANGE: apt is now used to install Mender packages from
the repositories instead of dpkg installing individual packages

Ticket: MEN-8476
Changelog: Commit
Signed-off-by: Vratislav Podzimek <[email protected]>
So that DNS functionality in the image chroot is not required.

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Signed-off-by: Vratislav Podzimek <[email protected]>
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mender-test-bot commented Aug 12, 2025

Merging these commits will result in the following changelog entries:

Changelogs

mender-convert (debug)

New changes in mender-convert since master:

Features
  • Use apt install some-package to install Mender packages

    Instead of custom magic downloading and installing individual
    packages from the repos, apt package manager is now used to do
    its job, including dependency resolution and installation, and
    signature+checksum verification, among other things.

    BREAKING CHANGE: apt is now used to install Mender packages from
    the repositories instead of dpkg installing individual packages
    (MEN-8476)

Other
  • Dropped support for clients before version 4
    (MEN-8476)

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