NEWS: announce bump of required minimum version of several components in next release

Distro            EOL     kernel  glibc meson  python  openssl cryptsetup util-linux elfutils libxcrypt libfido2 libseccomp
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS  2029-06 6.8     2.39  1.3.2  3.12.3  3.0.13  2.7.0      2.39.3     0.190    4.4.36    1.14.0   2.5.5
Ubuntu 25.04      2026-01 6.14    2.41  1.7.0  3.13.3  3.4.1   2.7.5      2.40.2     0.192    4.4.38    1.15.0   2.5.5
Ubuntu 25.10      2026-07 6.16    2.41  1.7.0  3.13.5  3.5.0   2.8.0      2.41       0.193    4.4.38    1.16.0   2.6.0
CentOS 9          2027-05 5.14.0  2.34  0.63.3 3.9.23  3.5.1   2.7.2      2.37.4     0.193    4.4.18    1.13.0   2.5.2
CentOS 10         2030-01 6.12.0  2.39  1.4.1  3.12.11 3.5.1   2.7.5      2.40.2     0.193    4.4.36    1.14.0   2.5.6
Debian 12         2026-06 6.12.38 2.36  1.7.0  3.11.2  3.0.17  2.6.1      2.38.1     0.192    4.4.33    1.12.0   2.5.4
Debian 13         2028-08 6.12.41 2.41  1.7.0  3.13.5  3.5.1   2.7.5      2.41       0.192    4.4.38    1.15.0   2.6.0

kernel releases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel_version_history
glibc releases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glibc
python releases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Python
openssl releases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSSL

See also #38608.

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@@ -174,6 +174,21 @@ CHANGES WITH 258 in spe:
           Only nftables backend will be supported by systemd-networkd and
           systemd-nspawn since v259.
 
+        * Required minimum version of following components is planned to be
+          bumped in the next release:
+          * Linux kernel >= 5.10 (recommended >= 5.14),
+          * glibc >= 2.34,
+          * libxcrypt >= 4.4.0 (libcrypt by glibc will be no longer supported),
+          * util-linux >= 2.37,
+          * elfutils >= 0.177,
+          * openssl >= 3.0.0,
+          * cryptsetup >= 2.4.0,
+          * libfido2 >= 1.5.0,
+          * libseccomp >= 2.4.0,
+          * python >= 3.9.0.
+          Please provide any feedback on systemd-devel if those removal of old
+          version support would cause problems.
+
         Service manager/PID1:
 
         * The PrivateUsers= unit setting now accepts a new value "full", which