The caveat with that floating tag is that it would point to the baseline JDK version that we provide. For example for upcoming images that will be built with JDK 11 and JDK 17, “latest” will point to “latest-jdk11”.

So the “latest” tag can be used to pull the image as usual.

But if/when we decide to stop producing JDK 11 images, the latest tag would then point to latest-jdk17 (without notice).

I’d recommend to use the new latest-jdk11 and latest-jdk17 to avoid such surprises if you want to stick to a given JDK version.

I’ve updated my PR to reflect this change at https://github.com/jboss-dockerfiles/wildfly/pull/164

Best regards,

Jeff