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Expand Up @@ -33,6 +33,11 @@ New **npm** releases are not tracked. We simply use the npm version bundled in t
from templates starting with the Node 26 images.

**[Alpine Linux](https://alpinelinux.org/releases/)** latest two releases are used.
When Alpine Linux makes a new branch available, which is planned for May and November each year,
this branch is adopted as a new base image and it becomes the default
for each supported Node.js release line.
The lowest previously used Alpine Linux release is dropped for future image builds,
so that only the two latest releases are maintained.

### Image Creation Automation

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