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Marks Docker Hub Automated Builds (Autobuilds) as a deprecated feature to be retired on Apr 1st 2027

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Signed-off-by: Nick Adcock <nick.adcock@docker.com>
@zappy-shu zappy-shu requested a review from craig-osterhout as a code owner May 6, 2026 15:44
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@craig-osterhout craig-osterhout added area/hub Issue affects Docker Hub status/review Pull requests that are ready for review labels May 6, 2026
Signed-off-by: Nick Adcock <nick.adcock@docker.com>
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/review

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Assessment: 🔴 CRITICAL

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Assessment: 🔴 CRITICAL


Findings

🔴 HIGH — data/summary.yaml line 24

availability: Retired conflicts with deprecation messaging

The summary bar will display "Retired" immediately, but the feature remains active until April 1, 2027. This creates three conflicting signals on the same page:

  • Sidebar badge: "Deprecated"
  • Summary bar: "Retired" (implies the feature is already gone)
  • Warning callout: "will be fully retired on April 1st 2027"

Users currently relying on Automated Builds may think access has already been revoked. Consider using Deprecated (if the summary bar supports it) or keeping the existing value until the actual retirement date.


🟡 MEDIUM — content/manuals/docker-hub/repos/manage/builds/_index.md line 19 (and 8 other files)

Non-standard date format — use "April 1, 2027"

The style guide requires US date format (e.g., "June 26, 2021"). The ordinal "April 1st 2027" is non-standard and missing a comma before the year. This pattern repeats across all 9 modified content files (_index.md, advanced.md, automated-testing.md, link-source.md, manage-builds.md, migrate.md, setup.md, troubleshoot.md, release-notes.md).

Suggested fix: replace April 1st 2027April 1, 2027 throughout.


🟡 MEDIUM — content/manuals/docker-hub/release-notes.md lines 21, 23

Internal links use absolute URLs instead of relative paths

The style guide requires relative links for internal links. Lines 21 and 23 use https://docs.docker.com/... absolute URLs, which can break in staging/preview environments.

Suggested fix:

- [Docker Hub Automated Builds](/manuals/docker-hub/repos/manage/builds/)
  is being deprecated. Existing accounts will have access until April 1, 2027.
  See [migration options](/manuals/docker-hub/repos/manage/builds/migrate/)
  for guides on migrating to GitHub Actions or Bitbucket Pipelines.

🟡 MEDIUM — content/manuals/retired.md lines 186–189

Grammar — mixed verb forms and missing terminal period

Line 186–187: "allowed building of Docker images … and automatically pushed" mixes a gerund phrase ("building of") with a simple past verb ("pushed"). Line 189 ("will be removed on April 1st 2027") is also missing a terminal period.

Suggested fix:

Docker Hub Automated Builds was a feature of Docker Hub that allowed building
Docker images from source code in an external repository and automatically pushing
the built image to your Docker repositories. This feature has been deprecated and
will be removed on April 1, 2027.

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GitHub is giving me an ambiguous failed to save comment: internal error when I try to leave inline suggestions.
Going to try to close and re-open to see if it automagically fixes.

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lgtm

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