#39310·gitea

Rootless docker documentation lists unmaintained tag

Author: DerEchteJoghurtCreated Sep 14, 2026Updated Sep 14, 2026
Labelstype/bug

Gitea Version

1.27.3

What happened?

The Docker (rootless) installation instructions (https://docs.gitea.com/installation/install-with-docker-rootless/) mentions the following:

For a stable release you could use :latest-rootless, :1-rootless or specify a certain release like :1.27.3-rootless, but if you’d like to use the latest development version then :nightly-rootless would be an appropriate tag.

However inspecting the :nightly-rootless tag with crane shows that this version hasn't been updated for over a year:

$ crane config docker.gitea.com/gitea:nightly-rootless | jq -r '.created'
2025-08-23T22:40:08.195531681Z

This should be changed to the updated :main-nightly-rootless tag:

$ crane config docker.gitea.com/gitea:main-nightly-rootless | jq -r '.created'
2026-09-12T17:34:30.565979009Z

How are you running Gitea?

I've been running the unmaintained :nightly-rootless tag on my end for over a year now and just switched to :latest-rootless. I'm not sure why I was using the nightly version in the first place, but this should still be changed quickly to avoid people running a severely outdated gitea version.