[Bug]: 25.0.0 Docker images being generated for armv7 despite architecture deprecation

[sunjam]

⚠️ This issue respects the following points: ⚠️

• This is a bug, not a question or a configuration/webserver/proxy issue.
• This issue is not already reported on Github (I've searched it).
• Nextcloud Server is up to date. See Maintenance and Release Schedule for supported versions.
• Nextcloud Server is running on 64bit capable CPU, PHP and OS.
• I agree to follow Nextcloud's Code of Conduct.

Bug description

armv5 and armv7 images are still being generated as Nextcloud 25.0.0 images, but 32-bit support is no longer possible.
This means the images are broken.

Steps to reproduce

1. https://hub.docker.com/_/nextcloud/tags

Expected behavior

Please remove any unsupported 32-bit images moving forward. At a glance I believe it would be armv5 and armv7.

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Is this bug present after an update or on a fresh install?

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Are you using the Nextcloud Server Encryption module?

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What user-backends are you using?

• Default user-backend (database)
• LDAP/ Active Directory
• SSO - SAML
• Other

Configuration report

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List of activated Apps

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[J0WI]

What do you mean by broken?

[sunjam]

32-bit is no longer supported in 25.0.0 and you receive a notice you must install a 64-bit image

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[martadinata666]

may I get references? as I'm on 32bit,and don't get any notifications? 🤔

[sunjam]

There are no notifications. This is being found through testing and by reviewing pull requests @martadinata666.

• [stable25] fix NC25 for 32-bit server#34905

25.0.2 will resume offering 32-bit support on eta December 1st until nc25 reaches EOL end of 2022.

• Until then 32-bit people can stay on 24.*
• See forum post here

[J0WI]

So that means it is still supported.

[sunjam]

32bit should be supported in 25.0.2 on eta December 1st. 25.0.0 and 25.0.1 are not supported

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[sunjam]

So that means it is still supported.

Deprecation is still happening. 25.0.0 is not supported and neither is 25.0.1 so you can remove those images. It will be supported again in December 25.0.2 until the release of 26 cutoff. You'll still still need to plan for removing these images alongside 26. @szaimen might be able to advise you.

[szaimen]

Yes indeed. Nextcloud 26 will remove 32-bit compatibility officially.

[sunjam]

@szaimen currently there are 32-bit docker images being generated for official Nextcloud Docker Hub and people are of course unable to use them and getting confused. Wondering if you could help advise on any way to prevent these broken images from staying available. At a glance I see armv7 and armv5, but there might be others.
25.0.0
25.0.1
and of course 26+

Thanks!

[szaimen]

Sorry, I don't have control over the "official" docker containers. For that you need to ask @J0WI. However indeed for 26 should 32-bit images not get build anymore.

[J0WI]

@szaimen that was poorly announced. What are people running Nextcloud on a 32 bit ARM broad (like old Raspberry Pi) supposed to do? 😕
IMHO we should keep 32-bit builds as long as this platform is still supported by the base image and builds without any serious errors.

[szaimen]

They are supposed to switch to 64-bit.

[J0WI]

IMHO it's not a sustainable solution to force people to just buy new hardware. According to Debian's statistics 32-bit is still widely used.

[sunjam]

To be fair 32-bit has been in deprecation for years and they don't have to support our old devices moving forward at all, but yes to better documentation and communication. It does seem clear that supporting 32-bit is no longer sustainable (for Nextcloud).

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[LeSpocky]

They are supposed to switch to 64-bit.

What will actually happen is rather the following: people won't throw away their RPi, Odroid, Cubie, or whatever armv7 single board computer they use, but simply run it with NC 24 or 25 forever. Exposing those eventually old and unsupported software versions to the internet.

[J0WI]

A few months, Nextcloud itself still promoted ARM32 devices: https://web.archive.org/web/20220407175925/https://nextcloud.com/box/
Some are still referenced on https://nextcloud.com/devices/

[szaimen]

https://help.nextcloud.com/t/deprecation-of-32-bit-support-ends-completely-with-nextcloud-26/150926