On Mon, 24 Feb 2025 at 05:30, Carwyn Edwards <[email protected]> wrote: > As far as I can tell Docker Inc. only maintains the latest major version [1], > and with Docker Engine and Moby 28.0 released on Feb 20th 2025 [2] , that > likely means the 27.x branch is likely to get less attention soon, let alone > the 26.x branch which is what it currently in testing and unstable. > > Upstream has this document which comments on the maintenance status of the > various branches: > > https://github.com/moby/moby/blob/master/project/BRANCHES-AND-TAGS.md > > The "Known Distributors" possibly useful when it comes to identifying > branches that may get more care and attention? > > It's not clear how accurate the "currently maintained" table is in terms of > maintainers or third parties that are maintaining older branches, but there > are none listed for the 26.x branches. > > While the 28.x series is possibly too new (?) is there any hope that trixie > could be updated to the 27.x series ahead of release?
I can attest to the accuracy of the table (as an upstream maintainer); the only update would be that 28 is now out, so 27.x is officially EOL (per the note in the table). I tried to push for 25.x in Debian, but I was just a touch too late so the work to package 26.x was already mostly complete (and going backwards is Hard). The biggest hurdle for newer versions is going to be, as usual, getting dependencies packaged, verified, and into testing, especially when we're down to a matter of just weeks before the first stages of trixie's freeze [1]. [1]: https://release.debian.org/trixie/freeze_policy.html ♥, - Tianon 4096R / B42F 6819 007F 00F8 8E36 4FD4 036A 9C25 BF35 7DD4
