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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
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45/100
Issue type
Feature
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Clearly specified
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Active
Tech stack
docker, shell

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The issue is about the release pipeline for Docker images. Look at the repository's GitHub Actions workflows, Dockerfile, and release scripts to understand the build and publish process. Investigate how security releases are coordinated with the WordPress security team and what automation can be added to reduce the delay. The goal is to propose a process improvement or automation change.

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Description

Hello,

Given yesterdays 7.1.2 security release I was wondering why there was a delay it getting a Docker image with the fix in place released.

The news release with the 7.1.2 release was published at around 14:00 UTC and we didn't see a Docker image pushed with that release until around 20:00 UTC a 6 hour gap.

This was a severe security vulnerability that explicitly called out Docker image in the release notes: "The official php image for Docker is affected". (https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/security/advisories/GHSA-7hp8-65ch-5whp).

How can we in future reduce this delay? I would have thought the WordPress security team would have given a heads up to the team that builds the docker images so that a 7.1.2 docker image was available immediately.

Thanks,
Stephen

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