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glitch-soc / mastodon

A glitchy but lovable microblogging server
https://glitch-soc.github.io/docs/
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Docker Image Tags #2876

Closed ThaMunsta closed 1 month ago

ThaMunsta commented 1 month ago

Pitch

I noticed git actions for "mastodon" stopped adding the latest tag in prebuilt images since nightly.2024-09-18-security but git actions still adds it to mastodon-streaming images. Can we establish some use cases for the different tags? nightly/edge is self explanatory - and even v4.3.0 makes sense if someone wanted to stay locked to just that release. v4.3 maybe for people who only want stable builds - 4.3.1 and onward; and latest is stable but includes security patches? I'm probably oversimplifying but should someone update the compose scripts to target the now released v4.3 tag if they want stable 4.3 updates without riskier nightly builds? If this wasn't intentional sorry for the feature request. :)

Motivation

I just want to make sure how I have docker setup aligns with the intentions of the prebuilt images and tags.

ClearlyClaire commented 1 month ago

latest is supposed to be the latest stable release, but there's a discrepancy/bug here that we share with upstream.

Targeting latest however might not be advisable, as there is no guarantee that upgrading from one release to the next is possible without manual operation (for a start, migrations are almost always required, but there might be other non-generic steps involved)