On 22 February 2018 at 00:27, Jan Christoph Uhde <j...@uhdejc.com> wrote: > we had a look at https://success.docker.com/article/Maintenance_Lifecycle and > noticed that the docker version in sid reached EOL.
Just to be clear, that table _only_ applies to Docker EE, which is a commercial offering from Docker Inc. For the open source edition of Docker CE, Docker 1.13 was EOL as soon as 17.03.0 was released (Mar 2, 2017). For the releases with the new date-based version format, I find the graphic in https://blog.docker.com/2017/03/docker-enterprise-edition/ helpful. The gist of it is that every release whose month number is divisible by three is a "stable" release, and the other releases are monthly "edge" releases. Stable releases are supported for 4 months, edge releases are supported for 1 month. The primary reason that Docker hasn't been updated further is one of dependency sprawl (same as it ever was); every new release adds new dependencies, and usually updates quite a few others. I believe there are some folks from Collabora who have been working on packaging those Go dependencies, but this is definitely more than a one-day effort (or else it might've been already done sooner). Cheers! ♥, - Tianon 4096R / B42F 6819 007F 00F8 8E36 4FD4 036A 9C25 BF35 7DD4
