As you may know, Quarkus provides container images based on Red Hat Universal Base Image (UBI) both for building applications and for running them. Since Quarkus 3.19, Quarkus is using UBI 9 as the default base image for container images. Given the oldest version we maintain in the community is 3.20 LTS, we have decided to retire the community UBI 8 images for Quarkus in March 2026.