"latest"tag in gcr.io is not getting updated

[asloan7]

Current "latest" release here in github is 0.39.3, but in
https://console.cloud.google.com/gcr/images/cadvisor/GLOBAL/cadvisor
it is still tagged to 0.38.6 from 14 months ago (Dec. 2020)

[calvinbui]

agreed. the latest tag should be changed to 0.39.3. That version is the last non pre-release on GitHub.

[HoroTW]

Now its 20 months old... This seems bad because I guess most people would not see that the latest tag is that old...
we are on version 0.45.0 and the latest tag is still pointing to 0.38.6 ....

[HoroTW]

#3028 Also wants this fixed
#2542 Gives an explanation that sounds like the "latest" label is fixed on the version and can't be updated....
I don't see why this would be good... Normally I would like to know (and even update by using the "latest" tag)..

Can this be changed, or is there a reason I just overlooked?

[cocoonkid]

I ran into this today too.

Please for the love of god ;-)

[Corfucinas]

You can have a semver and latest too :-)

#!/usr/bin/env bash 
 #encoding=utf8 
  
 set -euox pipefail 
 IFS=$'\n\t' 
  
 export DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 
 cd "$(dirname "$0")/.." 
  
 if [ -d .git ]; then 
     COMMIT_SHA=$(git rev-parse HEAD) 
     TAG_NAME=$(git describe --tags --abbrev=0) 
     REPO_NAME="Checkout of $(git remote get-url origin) at $(git describe --dirty --always)" 
     BRANCH_NAME=$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD) 
 fi 
  
 docker build \ 
     --build-arg "COMMIT_SHA=$COMMIT_SHA" \ 
     --build-arg "REPO_NAME=$REPO_NAME" \ 
     --build-arg "BRANCH_NAME=$BRANCH_NAME" \ 
     --build-arg "TAG_NAME=$TAG_NAME" \ 
     -t cadvisor:"$TAG_NAME" \ 
     -t cadvisor:latest \
     -f docker/Dockerfile .

[HoroTW]

Hi, this is still an issue and just unexpected behavior (from a user's point of view)...
The workaround suggested by @Corfucinas is nice if you really want the "latest" (in terms of most recent version).
For me, I wanted the latest version that was considered stable, basically the version tagged as latest on the releases page of github.....
For this version, I wanted the already built image from gcr - so yes, I also ended up with a script

I tried to keep it simple, but also wanted some sanity checks - so it got a few lines long ^^
https://github.com/HoroTW/cadvisor-latest-stable-updater