[Deprecation Notice] manylinux2014(CentOS7) support will be dropped after June 30, 2024

[hydai]

This is a deprecation notice announcing the end of manylinux2014(CentOS7) support in the releases planned after June 30, 2024.

To maintain the maximum compatibility of glibc, WasmEdge uses manylinux2014 as our base images for providing pre-built WasmEdge binaries and libraries. So, those users who use legacy systems such as CentOS 7 can execute the WasmEdge without any issues.

However, the upstream will drop the support of manylinux2014(based on CentOS7) due to the EOL of CentOS 7.

We decided to deprecate the support of manylinux2014. The future release will rely on manylinux2_28 as the base image.

Reference

1. The CentOS 7 EOL timeline: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata#Life_Cycle_Dates