Machine executor: instance is old

[JulienBalestra]

I do not know if it's the right place...

I read the documentation about the machine executor but I didn't find a way to specify a newer image than:

• circleci/classic:latest
• circleci/classic:edge

The distribution of these machines is ubuntu 14.04.

cat /etc/os-release 
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="14.04.5 LTS, Trusty Tahr"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS"
VERSION_ID="14.04"
HOME_URL="http://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"

In some case, it's too old, especially for projects based on systemd.

I would like to know if it is planned to upgrade the OS used by the machine executor ?

[mcritchlow]

I'm curious about this also. Will the machine executor images be updated anytime soon? Many of the included packages are very out of date as well. Thanks.

[vdiravka]

As far as I understand to update machine executor image it is possible only in the process of job executor via custom scripts (I need java8 and maven 3.5.4 or 3.3.9 at least), right?

[splitice]

Has anyone tried a dist upgrade to 18.04? It might be terribly slow but it would probably work.