Versioning & Release Notes
For each license type of Aidbox an individual backend image is available on the HealthSamurai docker hub. The images are labeled with stable and edge tags, also called channels. Aidbox release cycle is the following:
during the development sprint, new features become available on the edge channel
when the release is made, the current edge image becomes a new stable image
Note that the edge channel may have issues in newly added features and regressions and is not suitable for the production environment.
For every release, we also publish a timestamped image. The timestamp has the format of "DDMMYYYY", so for the release that is made on the 25th of January, 2021 is "25012021". The timestamped image can only be updated before the next release. After the next release, the previous release timestamped image becomes immutable.
We actively encourage developers to use images with either stable or edge tags in their applications. The timestamped image can be used to set a specific Aidbox version if the application development is frozen and the development team does not want to receive updates any longer. Keep in mind that the HealthSamurai team maintains backward compatibility in its releases, however, we can not guarantee a trivial update from an old timestamped image.
You can see the next planned release date and the release status in the Aidbox/Issues Github repository.
​aidboxdb image is a custom build of an open-source PostgreSQL database. It contains a number of extensions that are needed to increase search performance.
aidboxdb image follows PostgreSQL versioning. For an instance, if you want to use PostgreSQL 11.11, pull healthsamurai/aidboxdb:11.11
HealthSamurai team officially supports the latest minor releases of every major version of PosgreSQL starting from 11. Currently supported versions of PostgreSQL are 11.11, 12.6, and 13.2.
