latest vs stable tags

[andrew]

Hi. I noticed the release under the latest tag hasn't been updated in docker hub in two months, but stable has with the newest release.
Is the latest tag no longer maintained for the latest release?

[mvallevand]

Technically if you look at the install post for Docker you should have using stable since 2019. latest may not be the latest and should be avoided unless sub asks you to install it for testing.

Martin

[sub]

You guys should use the stable tag.

I only update latest when I'm testing docker stuff here, and I only push that tag build up to hub.docker.com when I want someone to test something about the docker build between releases.

[andrew]

Thank you for clarifying. It's my experience that "latest" typically means "the most recent build" and "stable" means the last "the last reliable release" thank you for clarifying that you are not using "latest" tags in this manner, I will adjust on my end.