State of Chihaya? No release since 2016? Will a new release be published? about chihaya HOT 3 OPEN

We honestly just haven't been aggressively doing releases. Most chihaya users are running HEAD rather than using stable releases. If you'd like to use docker, I recommend https://quay.io/repository/jzelinskie/chihaya-git?tag=latest&tab=tags

If we automated our release process with something like goreleaser, it might help communicate the best practice.

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To those not finding this issue, truth is, looks a bit confusing.
The "stable" public Docker image even doesn't have a :latest tag.
Adding some notice or at least a link to this issue in the Readme would help users, IMO.

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The "stable" public Docker image even doesn't have a :latest tag.

Are you referring to the quay.io link to chihaya-git? It has a :latest tag but as the image name implies it's meant to be the latest git build, not stable releases.

It doesn't seem like it gets regularly updated though (last update 7 months ago, Jan 2022), so you're probably better off building from the repo Dockerfile directly instead of pulling that image.

EDIT: Oh I see the README mentions the docker images and also references a stable image that you're referring to, you're not really meant to rely on :latest tags for production deployment, so specifying the last known release tag is technically ok, just a bit inconvenient for testing.

Adding some notice or at least a link to this issue in the Readme would help users, IMO.

Probably a good suggestion, but this issue is open, as long as that remains the case the maintainers could also pin this issue for visibility, since anyone checking out the README to get a feel for the project would probably skim through the issues of the project too.

A better improvement would be to just drop all mentions of stable releases, there's been no new releases at all since 2017 and maintainer advice is to build from git directly.. I can't imagine the maintainers are interested in users feedback from any of the tagged releases, any issues found have probably been addressed since.

Personally, if this is how users are choosing to run chihaya and it's been working well for so long, just add scheduled CI that tags releases (eg: monthly 2022-07 / 22.7, provided there has been new commits).

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