Support periods

[Jamesking56]

Hi,

Loving the work, please keep it up as its fantastic.

Do you guys publish any sort of EOL dates / support timelines for the published images? or is it a case where we need to follow PHP's own support guidelines (https://www.php.net/supported-versions.php)

Would be good to know how long a docker image published by yourselves is supported for.

Cheers.

[Manishram-ai]

I don't think they publish fixed EOL dates for the images, but the rule is pretty clear and it mostly follows PHP and the base OS. PHP 8.2 to 8.5 are the supported ones right now. After a PHP version goes end of life they keep building it for as long as the OS underneath still gets security updates. Once that stops, the tags freeze at their last build, so you can still pull them but nothing gets updated.

You can see that on Docker Hub. 8.1-fpm-nginx is EOL upstream but was rebuilt on Nov 5, so it still gets OS fixes (PHP itself doesn't), while 8.0-fpm-nginx hasn't changed since Sep 3.

Floating and pinned tags also behave differently. 8.5-fpm-nginx gets rebuilt for every PHP patch and once a week for OS fixes, but 8.5-fpm-nginx-v5.1.1 never changes. The full rule is in SECURITY.md.