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    description="Obtain all lifecycle information relevant to security for the Docker Engine from the Docker, including versions, patches and end-of-life data."
   
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    <term>Docker Engine</term>
    <term>Docker</term>
    <term>Application</term>
    <term>Release</term>
    <term>Version</term>
    <term>Major</term>
    <term>Minor</term>
    <term>Patch</term>
    <term>End-of-life</term>
    <term>EOL</term>
    <term>Support</term>
    <term>End-of-support</term>
    <term>EOS</term>
    <term>Maintenance</term>
    <term>End-of-maintenance</term>
    <term>EOM</term>
    <term>Security</term>
    <term>Long-term support</term>
    <term>LTS</term>
    <term>Vulnerabilities</term>
    <term>Common vulnerabilities &amp; exposures</term>
    <term>CVE</term>
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            header1="Lifecycle guide for Docker Engine from Docker"
            header2="All releases, patches, maintenance and support periods at a glance" 
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        <item type="paragraph">📅 Last update on 2025-08-08</item>
       
        
        <item type="header2" class="article-title">What is Docker Engine?</item>
        <item type="paragraph" imgLink="content-end-of-life-product-release-version-database.xml" alt="Automate product release and end-of-life management" img="../img/product-release-version-end-of-life/docker-docker-engine.svg"><![CDATA[Docker Engine is a containerisation technology that allows applications to be packaged independently, avoiding the requirement to install or manage software dependencies. Containers are isolated from one another and bundle their own software, libraries and configuration files.]]></item>

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        <item type="header2" class="article-title">The entire lifecycle of Docker Engine</item>

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            The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of Docker Engine. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.
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        <item type="paragraph">Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product Docker Engine (Docker)</item>
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        <item type="removeableParagraph" heading="What is the Docker Engine release strategy?">Docker Engine releases of a year-month branch are supported with patches as needed for one month after the next year-month general availability release.</item>
        

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                    <first>Latest version</first>
                    <second>28.3.3</second>
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                    <first>Number of releases</first>
                    <second>60</second>
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                    <first>Number of versions</first>
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                    <first>Number of unstable versions</first>
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                    <first>Number of versions affected by CVE</first>
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                    <first>Licence</first>
                    <second>Apache License 2.0</second>
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                    <first>Licence details</first>
                    <secondlink>https://github.com/moby/moby/blob/master/LICENSE</secondlink>
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                    <first>Product site</first>
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                    <first>Release info</first>
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                    <first>Version command</first>
                    <second><![CDATA[docker version --format '{{.Server.Version}}']]></second>
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                    <first>Wikipedia</first>
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