Good question. I dont think the old tags will ever be deleted. The “supported tags” are continually rebuilt with newer base images, and to get debian package updates, etc. So 7.7 and 8.10 will continue to exist and users can pull the image, but they will not get security fixes for debian/java down the line.
- Houston On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 4:25 PM Mike Drob <md...@mdrob.com> wrote: > I noticed that with the 9.0 release we made the decision to yank all of > the older docker images. I wanted to get some clarity on the practical > implications. > > On our Official Images page I see that we list 8.11.1 and 9.0 - is the > plan going forward to continue to list only the latest in each line? So > 8.11.1 will be replaced by 8.11.2 (soon, hopefully), etc... > > Just before writing this email, I was able to verify that I can still > docker pull solr:7.7 - do we know how long this will continue to exist? > Does dockerhub have an age-off policy? > https://www.docker.com/blog/expanded-support-for-open-source-software-projects/ > suggests that we are exempt from the data pull rate throttle, but I am > unclear regarding retention times. > > I'm all for encouraging our users to move on to the latest and greatest > version, but I'd prefer that we do it via carrots of new features, not the > stick of their downloads disappearing. > > Thanks, > Mike >
