diff --git a/changelog.d/11633.misc b/changelog.d/11633.misc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..73e814e58e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/11633.misc
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Drop support for Python 3.6 and Ubuntu 18.04.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/docker/Dockerfile-dhvirtualenv b/docker/Dockerfile-dhvirtualenv
index 1dd88140c7..fbc1d2346f 100644
--- a/docker/Dockerfile-dhvirtualenv
+++ b/docker/Dockerfile-dhvirtualenv
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ ARG distro=""
### Stage 0: build a dh-virtualenv
###
-# This is only really needed on bionic and focal, since other distributions we
+# This is only really needed on focal, since other distributions we
# care about have a recent version of dh-virtualenv by default. Unfortunately,
# it looks like focal is going to be with us for a while.
#
@@ -36,9 +36,8 @@ RUN env DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install \
wget
# fetch and unpack the package
-# TODO: Upgrade to 1.2.2 once bionic is dropped (1.2.2 requires debhelper 12; bionic has only 11)
RUN mkdir /dh-virtualenv
-RUN wget -q -O /dh-virtualenv.tar.gz https://github.com/spotify/dh-virtualenv/archive/ac6e1b1.tar.gz
+RUN wget -q -O /dh-virtualenv.tar.gz https://github.com/spotify/dh-virtualenv/archive/refs/tags/1.2.2.tar.gz
RUN tar -xv --strip-components=1 -C /dh-virtualenv -f /dh-virtualenv.tar.gz
# install its build deps. We do another apt-cache-update here, because we might
@@ -86,12 +85,12 @@ RUN apt-get update -qq -o Acquire::Languages=none \
libpq-dev \
xmlsec1
-COPY --from=builder /dh-virtualenv_1.2~dev-1_all.deb /
+COPY --from=builder /dh-virtualenv_1.2.2-1_all.deb /
# install dhvirtualenv. Update the apt cache again first, in case we got a
# cached cache from docker the first time.
RUN apt-get update -qq -o Acquire::Languages=none \
- && apt-get install -yq /dh-virtualenv_1.2~dev-1_all.deb
+ && apt-get install -yq /dh-virtualenv_1.2.2-1_all.deb
WORKDIR /synapse/source
ENTRYPOINT ["bash","/synapse/source/docker/build_debian.sh"]
diff --git a/scripts-dev/build_debian_packages b/scripts-dev/build_debian_packages
index 3a9a2d257c..4d34e90703 100755
--- a/scripts-dev/build_debian_packages
+++ b/scripts-dev/build_debian_packages
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ DISTS = (
"debian:bullseye",
"debian:bookworm",
"debian:sid",
- "ubuntu:bionic", # 18.04 LTS (our EOL forced by Py36 on 2021-12-23)
"ubuntu:focal", # 20.04 LTS (our EOL forced by Py38 on 2024-10-14)
"ubuntu:hirsute", # 21.04 (EOL 2022-01-05)
"ubuntu:impish", # 21.10 (EOL 2022-07)
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index fbb0133016..e618ff898b 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -162,7 +162,6 @@ setup(
"Topic :: Communications :: Chat",
"License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License",
"Programming Language :: Python :: 3 :: Only",
- "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6",
"Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7",
"Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8",
"Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",
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