`latest` is applied to the most recent image built without an explicit tag (or one explicitly tagged as `latest`); it does not necessarily mean that image is th

`latest` is applied to the most recent image built without an explicit tag (or one explicitly tagged as `latest`); it does not necessarily mean that image is the most "up to date" in any sense. For example, you could have a very old `latest` image, which was built before many explicitly tagged images. Whoever came up with this heuristic probably did not really understand `latest`. To be fair, though, it is a fairly misleading and confusing "feature".