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 ### Docker
 - The docker image is built by our CI workers and pushed to Docker Hub automatically.
 - Please verify that https://hub.docker.com/r/mitmproxy/mitmproxy/tags/ has the latest version.
-- The latest tag should auto-update. @mhils introduced this after the 5.0.0 release.
-  Please verify that this is the case and remove this notice. For reference, this is how to do it manually:
-  `export VERSION=4.0.3 && docker pull mitmproxy/mitmproxy:$VERSION && docker tag mitmproxy/mitmproxy:$VERSION mitmproxy/mitmproxy:latest && docker push mitmproxy/mitmproxy:latest`.
+- Please verify that the latest tag points to the most recent image (same digest / hash).
 
 ### Docs
   - `./build.sh`. If everything looks alright, continue with