Upcoming :latest tag change for Redistributable Base Os containers to SLES 16.0

[dirkmueller]

For quite a while already there are registry.suse.com/bci/bci-base:16.0 (and others for bci-minimal, bci-micro, bci-init and sl16-kernel-module-devel) already available. Following the release of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0, we're beginning switching our :latest tags to point to SUSE Linux Base Container Image 16.0 variants by default. This will happen around January 15th, 2026.

Situation today:

• bci/bci-base:latest points to / is an alias of bci/bci-base:15.7

Situation on Janary 15th and later going forward:

• bci/bci-base:latest points to / is an alias of bci/bci-base:16.0

For now we will only switch the base operating system images and will over time add Application container images that are derived from SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0. A migration path for the language stack and development containers will be announced shortly.