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official-images

Primary source of truth for the Docker "Official Images" program

23Distinct people
30Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
7KGitHub stars
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What it is

Primary source of truth for the Docker "Official Images" program

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Where it is used

  • Eclipse Temurin (Adoptium) Docker containers — Adoptium's containers repo documents automated and manual steps to generate and submit an official-images manifest for eclipse-temurin, and states that PRs in docker-library/official-images are inspected for matching release tags. Source

What people are saying

Unless your product requires AIX to function, I recommend against AIX and POWER in general. You aren’t going to be able to get cheap POWER machines for distributed computing in…

lukevp used a recommendation phrase. One indexed comment matches. This is a phrase match, not a verdict.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 9:01:12 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year30 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-11-05 02:33:21 UTC to 2026-10-21 15:31:56 UTC.

0123452014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 1 submissions, 4 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC514

What Hacker News says

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Perhaps we’re talking past each other? When I go to https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/blob/maste... It only is showing the newest version of node 8.16 listed in the manifest file. In other words, if I had an image based off node 8.15, it isn’t going to be updated ever. So it’s not a matter of just rebuilding regularly, if you aren’t updating your dockerfiles to use newer language versions, you also aren’t going to get system updates. Edit: I think i do see your point which is that if you are completely up to date on language versions, clearing the build cache every once in a while may still help get a system update if an upstream image is changed in between the release of a new language tag.
In Intro Guide to Dockerfile Best Practices
> As of RIGHT NOW, haproxy has not updated it's official docker image and has 6 day old docker images which docker hub flags as having vulnerabilities (screenshot at https://imgur.com/a/SiYoZzc). So I'm a little hesitant at calling this release "Cloud Native" 1. The “official” Docker image is not maintained by HAProxy itself. “Official” refers to being blessed by Docker. See: https://github.com/docker-library/official-images#what-do-yo... 2. The vulnerability scan of Docker Hub is bogus: https://github.com/docker-library/faq#why-does-my-security-s... 3. There's a pull request created by me to switch from 2.0-rc to 2.0: https://github.com/docker-library/haproxy/pull/89. I created it immediately after learning about the release. Any further delay is caused by the Docker Official Images team. Disclosure: I'm a community contributor to HAProx
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y and I help maintain the issue tracker on GitHub. I also maintain a few “official” Docker images and by that I know the process.
In HAProxy 2.0
3.8 looks fine? » docker run --rm -ti alpine:3.8 sh -c 'cat /etc/shadow | grep root' root:!::0::::: The others you mention though, I agree, they look less than fine. Also, has anyone reported this to the official Alpine repository? (since the Talos disclosure seems to be confused; it says official but has URLs to the Glider Labs version?) Edit: Ah, so here's the relevant GitHub issue for official Alpine Linux docker: https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/pull/5516 <=3.5 is no longer supported. Everything newer is patched.
In Alpine Linux Docker images have NULL for root password

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