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2026-08-17-paperclip-breaking-docker-latest-changed-meaning-from-every-master-merge-to
Breaking: Docker :latest changed meaning from every master merge to stable only.
ghcr.io/paperclipai/paperclip:latest previously tracked every merge to master. It now moves only on stable releases. Master builds publish :canary, nightly tags publish :nightly, beta tags publish :beta, stable tags publish :latest plus :YYYY.MDD.P version tags, and every image gets :sha-
Channel: tagged-release. Ancestry: PR #11006 merge commit f9173782cd12bc5e47466150892c0724789d26af; compare f9173782...v2026.817.0 -> ahead, behind_by=0. Listed first under 'Breaking Changes' in the v2026.817.0 release body, and in doc/CHANNELS.md pinned at the tag.
Operator consequence: If you pull :latest and expected master, switch to :canary or :nightly now -- your image is about to stop moving daily and start jumping in 300-commit steps. If you wanted a stable image and had been stuck on :latest, you finally have one, and :sha-
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Run: 2026-08-17-weekly-digest-2026-08-10_2026-08-17-frontier-v0
Finding ID: 2026-08-17-paperclip-breaking-docker-latest-changed-meaning-from-every-master-merge-to
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