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License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 17, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
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60 open issues indexed

ImageID: allow hashing index instead of config Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

opencontainers/image-spec#1333 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 19, 2026
Why does OCI Image Layout not match the OCI Distribution Spec paths? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

opencontainers/image-spec#1310 · 4 comments · Opened Mar 19, 2026
Proposal: org.opencontainers.image.base.source Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 42/100

opencontainers/image-spec#1308 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 10, 2026
Proposal: Adding security information like in security.txt Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

opencontainers/image-spec#1283 · 5 comments · Opened Sep 3, 2025
why each image must only have one layer lines, but not a multiple-root layer tree? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

opencontainers/image-spec#1270 · 29 comments · Opened Jul 8, 2025
Proper usage of org.opencontainers.image.licenses Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

opencontainers/image-spec#1257 · 4 comments · Opened Apr 12, 2025
Clarification around os.features Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

opencontainers/image-spec#1237 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jan 11, 2025
Proposal: Annotation for URL to artwork/logo for an OCI Image Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

opencontainers/image-spec#1231 · 8 comments · Opened Dec 22, 2024
Clarification if parent directories can be omitted in layer tar Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

opencontainers/image-spec#1221 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 2, 2024
Using an image index to reference nested related artifacts Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

opencontainers/image-spec#1217 · 4 comments · Opened Nov 12, 2024
Identifying Platform-Specific OCI Artifacts Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

opencontainers/image-spec#1216 · 16 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Oct 31, 2024
Way to document the stream or cpe that an image belongs to? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

opencontainers/image-spec#1213 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 25, 2024
Should the descriptor urls field be deprecated Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

opencontainers/image-spec#1201 · 5 comments · Opened Sep 6, 2024
performance: what can image-spec do to improve handling of large images? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

opencontainers/image-spec#1190 · 36 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 28, 2024
Standards around bridging between `/usr/lib/os-release` and labels/annotations? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

opencontainers/image-spec#1152 · 10 comments · Opened Dec 19, 2023
Docker mime types contained within OCI image index Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

opencontainers/image-spec#1150 · 7 comments · Opened Dec 8, 2023
Question: How to set proper artifactType Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

opencontainers/image-spec#1143 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 19, 2023
Descriptors, the platform object, and the artifactType Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 32/100

opencontainers/image-spec#1131 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 26, 2023
Documentation for OCI Limitations Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

opencontainers/image-spec#1048 · 4 comments · Opened Apr 12, 2023
Proposal: additional Pre-Defined Annotation Keys Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

opencontainers/image-spec#1046 · 24 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 5, 2023
Proposal: checkpoint image defintion Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

opencontainers/image-spec#962 · 26 comments · 18 reactions · Opened Oct 13, 2022
Add OCI Image diagram Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

opencontainers/image-spec#938 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 19, 2022
Replace compressed `tar` with format for random access Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

opencontainers/image-spec#936 · 5 comments · Opened Aug 15, 2022
Proposal: Add ReadOnlyFs option to default execution parameters config Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

opencontainers/image-spec#906 · Opened Apr 16, 2022
Question: clarify image source annotation use for repos with multiple Dockerfiles Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

opencontainers/image-spec#886 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 9, 2021
Proposal: Resolve contradiction between image index and image layout mediaTypes Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

opencontainers/image-spec#870 · 5 comments · Opened Oct 4, 2021
Proposal: Add Security Context Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

opencontainers/image-spec#867 · 2 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Aug 2, 2021
remove the bogus annotations section Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

opencontainers/image-spec#864 · Opened Jul 9, 2021
Clarification about symbolic and hardlink rules Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

opencontainers/image-spec#857 · 22 comments · Opened Jun 22, 2021
Images should specify a path for a CA certificate bundle to be mounted by the runtime Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

opencontainers/image-spec#843 · 3 comments · 15 reactions · Opened Apr 21, 2021
Config schema: optional fields are not all nullable Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

opencontainers/image-spec#837 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 9, 2021
Clarrify usage of predefined annotations as labels within image config Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

opencontainers/image-spec#833 · 5 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Mar 27, 2021
Proper value to set in licenses annotation for licenses not in the SPDX License List Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

opencontainers/image-spec#820 · Opened Feb 4, 2021
Predefined annotations scope Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

opencontainers/image-spec#818 · Opened Jan 14, 2021
Add eStargz specification to OCI v1 (support lazy pulling) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

opencontainers/image-spec#815 · 2 comments · 36 reactions · Opened Dec 9, 2020
how to share blobs across multiple images in image-layout spec Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

opencontainers/image-spec#811 · 14 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 1, 2020
Register mediaTypes with IANA Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

opencontainers/image-spec#808 · Opened Sep 21, 2020
Formalize support for zstd compression: v1.1.0 ? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

opencontainers/image-spec#803 · 81 comments · 16 reactions · Opened Apr 20, 2020
org.opencontainers.image.url label definition is ambiguous Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

opencontainers/image-spec#802 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 1, 2020
Support is needed for media type extensions Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

opencontainers/image-spec#799 · Opened Mar 4, 2020
Taming media types Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

opencontainers/image-spec#791 · 27 comments · Opened Sep 12, 2019
config.User in image config Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

opencontainers/image-spec#784 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 30, 2019
Practical limits for recursive references Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

opencontainers/image-spec#780 · 9 comments · Opened Jun 13, 2019
"Healthcheck" for image config Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

opencontainers/image-spec#749 · 40 comments · 27 reactions · Opened Aug 28, 2018
Annotation for: Vendor agnostic build tool information? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

opencontainers/image-spec#748 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 21, 2018
Proposal: New Mediatype - Container Image Encryption Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

opencontainers/image-spec#747 · 63 comments · Opened Jul 9, 2018
config.rootfs is superfluous and should be removed Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

opencontainers/image-spec#743 · 18 comments · Opened Mar 27, 2018
Should containers inherits the group/gid from the image configuration? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

opencontainers/image-spec#741 · 6 comments · Opened Feb 12, 2018
behavior around parent directory needs clarification Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

opencontainers/image-spec#737 · 2 reactions · Opened Nov 22, 2017
Clarify expected PAX headers for xattrs (LIBARCHIVE.xattr. vs. SCHILY.xattr.) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

opencontainers/image-spec#725 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 26, 2017

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