Alpine Linux 3.18 used in Docker is EOL soon

[FLyrfors]

Prerequisites

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The problem

The Docker image is based on Alpine Linux 3.18 which is end of life May 9th. See https://alpinelinux.org/releases/

Proposed solution

Move Docker to a newer Alpine release. Version 3.21 is the latest and it is supported until November next year.

Alternatives considered and additional information

No response

[thespad]

This needs to be considered a priority, it's not acceptable to be running core infrastructure on an unsupported base image; really it should be something that's updated as a matter of course, with some time lag, after a new Alpine release, rather than waiting until it's about to go EOL.

[ainar-g]

We've released the update to the Edge channel, and it should reach Beta and Release ones soon.