Unversioned image tags silently break CI jobs
Floating and unversioned image tags let new builds silently replace working images and break jobs.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 16 January 2024 · last reported 1 September 2025
What's going wrong
Teams pulling images from the shared registry find that tags such as latest or floating dependency versions change without notice.
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