Docker Desktop for Windows Stable Release notes

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Here are the main improvements and issues per stable release, starting with the current release. The documentation is always updated for each release.

For system requirements, see What to know before you install.

Release notes for stable releases are listed below, edge release notes are also available. (Following the CE release model, ‘beta’ releases are called ‘edge’ releases.) You can learn about both kinds of releases, and download stable and edge product installers at Download Docker for Windows.

Stable Releases of 2019

Docker Community Edition 2.0.0.3 2019-02-15

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Docker Community Edition 2.0.0.2 2019-01-16

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Stable Releases of 2018

Docker Community Edition 2.0.0.0-win81 2018-12-07

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Docker Community Edition 2.0.0.0-win78 2018-11-19

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  • Upgrades
  • New
    • New version scheme
  • Deprecation
    • Removed support of AUFS
  • Bug fixes and minor changes
    • Windows Containers: Fix group daemon option settings. Fixes docker/for-win#2647
    • Windows Containers: Better host.docker.internal resolution, don’t rewrite it if not modified. From docker/for-win#1976
    • Do not try to update samba share mounts when using Windows Containers
    • Improved dns update too verbose in logs
    • VPNKit: Improved scalability of port forwarding.
    • VPNKit: Limit the size of the UDP NAT table. This ensures port forwarding and regular TCP traffic continue even when running very chatty UDP protocols.
    • LCOW does not need --platform flag on multi-arch images any more
    • Disk size can now be ajusted from 32GiB to drive space.
    • Fix dns update too verbose in logs
    • Fix panic in diagnose

Docker Community Edition 18.06.1-ce-win73 2018-08-29

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  • Upgrades
  • Bug fixes and minor changes
    • Fix bug in VM activity detection, preventing Docker Desktop from starting. Fixes docker/for-win#2404
    • Fix bug in detection when Windows service is not running, and propose to restart the service.
    • Fix local DNS failing to resolve inside containers. Fixes docker/for-win#2301, docker/for-win#2304
    • Fix Kubernetes status display after reset to factory default
    • Fix bug where host.docker.internal is not resolved in some cases. Fixes docker/for-win#2402
    • Use a 1MB vhdx blocksize instead of the default 32MB. See docker/for-win#244. Also see Microsoft Best Practices for running Linux on Hyper-V
    • Fix diagnostics in specific cases when the Windows service is not started.
    • Changed the samba default file permission to avoid an issue with too open rights. Fixes docker/for-win#2170
    • On RS5 insider, fixed wrong detection of missing feature “Containers” requiring you to install the feature and then reboot.

Docker Community Edition 18.06.0-ce-win72 2018-07-26

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  • New
    • Renewed signing certificate. The installer may show a Windows Defender popup until the renewed certificate is whitelisted. Click “More info” to view the app is published by “Docker Inc” and run it.
  • Bug fixes and minor changes
    • Fix bug in automatic feature enabling if “Hyper-V” and “Containers” Windows features are not enabled already when starting Docker Desktop.

Docker Community Edition 18.06.0-ce-win70 2018-07-25

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  • Upgrades
  • New
    • Kubernetes Support. You can now run a single-node Kubernetes cluster from the “Kubernetes” Pane in Docker for Windows settings and use kubectl commands as well as Docker commands. See https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-windows/kubernetes/
  • Bug fixes and minor changes
    • AUFS storage driver is deprecated in Docker Desktop and AUFS support will be removed in the next major release. You can continue with AUFS in Docker Desktop 18.06.x, but you will need to reset the disk image (in Settings > Reset menu) before updating to the next major update. You can check documentation to save images and backup volumes
    • Fix bug which would in some cases cause virtual machine logs to be written to RAM rather than disk, and the virtual machine to hang.
    • Fix security issue with named pipe connection to docker service.
    • Fix VPNKit memory leak. Fixes docker/for-win#2087, moby/vpnkit#371
    • Fix restart issue when using Windows fast startup on latest 1709 Windows updates. Fixes docker/for-win#1741, docker/for-win#1741
    • DNS name host.docker.internal can be used for host resolution from Windows Containers. Fixes docker/for-win#1976
    • Fix broken link in diagnostics window.
    • Added log rotation for docker-ce logs inside the virtual machine.
    • Changed smb permission to avoid issue when trying to manipulate files with different users in containers. Fixes docker/for-win#2170

Docker Community Edition 18.03.1-ce-win65 2018-04-30

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Docker Community Edition 18.03.1-ce-win64 2018-04-26

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Docker Community Edition 18.03.0-ce-win59 2018-03-26

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  • Upgrades
  • New
    • Virtual machine disk size can be changed in settings. Fixes docker/for-win#105
    • Virtual machine swap size can be changed in settings.
    • New menu item to restart Docker.
    • Support NFS Volume sharing. See docker/for-win#1700
    • Allow to activate Windows Containers during installation (avoid virtual machine disk creation and virtual machine boot when working only on Windows containers). See docker/for-win#217.
    • Experimental feature: LCOW containers can now be run next to Windows containers (on Windows RS3 build 16299 and later). Use --platform=linux in Windows container mode to run Linux Containers On Windows. Note that LCOW is experimental; it requires the daemon experimental option.
  • Bug fixes and minor changes

Docker Community Edition 17.12.0-ce-win47 2018-01-12

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Docker Community Edition 17.12.0-ce-win46 2018-01-09

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  • Upgrades
  • New
    • Virtual machine entirely built with linuxkit
    • Add localhost port forwarder for Windows (thanks @simonferquel). Use Microsoft localhost port forwarder when it is available (insider build RS4).
  • Bug fixes and minor changes
    • Display various component versions in About box.
    • Fix vpnkit issue when username has spaces. See docker/for-win#1429
    • Diagnostic improvements to get VM logs before VM shutdown.
    • Fix installer check for not supported Windows CoreCountrySpecific Edition.
    • Fix a class of startup failures where the database fails to start. See docker/for-win#498
    • Links in update changelog now open the default browser instead of IE. (fixes docker/for-win#1311)

Stable Releases of 2017

Docker Community Edition 17.09.1-ce-win42 2017-12-11

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Docker Community Edition 17.09.0-ce-win33 2017-10-06

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  • Bug fixes
    • Fix Docker For Windows unable to start in some cases: removed use of libgmp sometimes causing the vpnkit process to die.

Docker Community Edition 17.09.0-ce-win32 2017-10-02

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  • Upgrades
  • New
    • Windows Docker daemon is now started as service for better lifecycle management
    • Store Linux daemon configuration in ~.docker\daemon.json instead of settings file
    • Store Windows daemon configuration in C:\ProgramData\Docker\config\daemon.json instead of settings file
    • VPNKit: add support for ping!
    • VPNKit: add slirp/port-max-idle-timeout to allow the timeout to be adjusted or even disabled
    • VPNKit: bridge mode is default everywhere now
    • Add Skip This Version button in update window
  • Security fixes
    • VPNKit: security fix to reduce the risk of DNS cache poisoning attack (reported by Hannes Mehnert https://hannes.nqsb.io/)
  • Bug fixes and minor changes
    • Kernel: Enable TASK_XACCT and TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
    • Rotate logs in the virtual machine more often (docker/for-win#244)
    • Reset to default stops all engines and removes settings including all daemon.json files
    • Better backend service checks (related to https://github.com/docker/for-win/issues/953)
    • Fix auto updates checkbox, no need to restart the application
    • Fix check for updates menu when auto updates was disable
    • VPNKit: do not block startup when ICMP permission is denied. (Fixes docker/for-win#1036, docker/for-win#1035, docker/for-win#1040)
    • VPNKit: change protocol to support error messages reported back from the server
    • VPNKit: fix a bug which causes a socket to leak if the corresponding TCP connection is idle for more than 5 minutes (related to docker/for-mac#1374)
    • VPNKit: improve the logging around the UNIX domain socket connections
    • VPNKit: automatically trim whitespace from int or bool database keys
    • Do not move credentials into the credential store at startup

Docker Community Edition 17.06.2-ce-win27 2017-09-06

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Docker Community Edition 17.06.1-ce-rc1-win24 2017-08-24

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Upgrades

Bug fixes and minor

Docker Community Edition 17.06.0-ce-win18 2017-06-28

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Upgrades

New

  • Windows Server 2016 support
  • Windows 10586 is marked as deprecated; it is not supported going forward in stable releases
  • Integration with Docker Cloud, with the ability to control remote Swarms from the local command line interface (CLI) and view your repositories
  • Unified login between the Docker CLI and Docker Hub, Docker Cloud.
  • Sharing a drive can be done on demand, the first time a mount is requested
  • Add an experimental DNS name for the host: docker.for.win.localhost
  • Support for client (i.e. “login”) certificates for authenticating registry access (fixes docker/for-win#569)
  • New installer experience

Bug fixes and minor changes

  • Fixed group access check for users logged in with Active Directory (fixes docker/for-win#785)
  • Checked environment variables and add some warnings in logs if they can cause docker to fail
  • Many processes that were running in admin mode now run within the user identity
  • Cloud federation command lines now open in the user home directory
  • Named pipes are now created with more constrained security descriptors to improve security
  • Security fix: Users must be part of the specific group “docker-users” to run Docker for Windows
  • Reset to default / uninstall also reset Docker cli settings and logout user from Docker Cloud and registries
  • Detected a bitlocker policy preventing windows containers to work
  • Fixed an issue on filesharing when explicitly disabled on vmswitch interface
  • Fixed virtual machine not starting when the machine had a very long name
  • Fixed a bug where Windows daemon.json file was not written (fixes docker/for-win#670)
  • Added patches to the kernel to fix VMBus crash
  • Named pipe client connection should not trigger dead locks on docker run with data in stdin any more
  • Buffered data should be treated correctly when docker client requests are upgraded to raw streams

Docker Community Edition 17.03.1-ce-win12 2017-05-12

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Upgrades

  • Security fix for CVE-2017-7308

Docker Community Edition 17.03.0, 2017-03-02

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New

  • Renamed to Docker Community Edition
  • Integration with Docker Cloud: control remote Swarms from the local CLI and view your repositories. This feature is going to be rolled out to all users progressively

Upgrades

Bug fixes and minor changes

  • Matched Hyper-V Integration Services by ID, not name
  • Don’t consume 100% CPU when the service is stopped
  • Log the diagnostic id when uploading
  • Improved firewall handling: stop listing the rules since it can take a lot of time
  • Don’t rollback to the previous engine when the desired engine fails to start
  • Don’t use port 4222 inside the Linux virtual machine
  • Fixed startup error of ObjectNotFound in Set-VMFirmware
  • Added detailed logs when firewall is configured
  • Added a link to the Experimental Features documentation
  • Fixed the copyright in the About dialog
  • VPNKit: fix unmarshalling of DNS packets containing pointers to pointers to labels
  • VPNKit: set the Recursion Available bit on DNS responses from the cache
  • VPNKit: Avoid diagnostics to capture too much data
  • VPNKit: fix a source of occasional packet loss (truncation) on the virtual ethernet link
  • Fixed negotiation of TimeSync protocol version (through kernel update)

Docker for Windows 1.13.1, 2017-02-09

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Upgrades

Bug fixes and minor changes

  • Add link to experimental features
  • New 1.13 cancellable operations should now be properly handled by the Docker for desktop
  • Various typos fixes
  • Fix in Hyper-V VM setup (should fix ObjectNotFound errors)

Docker for Windows 1.13.0, 2017-01-19

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Upgrades

New

  • Windows containers
  • Improved UI for Daemon.json editing
  • VHDX file containing images and non-host mounted volumes can be moved (using “advanced” tab in the UI)
  • Support for arm, aarch64, ppc64le architectures using qemu
  • TRIM support for disk (shrinks virtual disk)
  • Virtual machine’s time synchronization is forced after the host wakes from sleep mode
  • Docker Experimental mode can be toggled

Bug fixes and minor changes

  • Improved Proxy UI
  • Improvements to Logging and Diagnostics
  • About Box is now copy/paste enabled
  • Improvements in drive sharing code
  • Optimized boot process
  • Trend Micro Office Scan made the API proxy think no drive was shared
  • Show a link to the virtualization documentation
  • Always remove the disk on factory reset
  • VPNKit: Improved diagnostics
  • VPNKit: Forwarded UDP datagrams have correct source port numbers
  • VPNKit: If one request fails, allow other concurrent requests to succeed. For example this allows IPv4 servers to work even if IPv6 is broken.
  • VPNKit: Fix bug which could cause the connection tracking to underestimate the number of active connections
  • VPNKit: add a local cache of DNS responses

Stable Releases of 2016

Docker for Windows 1.12.5, 2016-12-20

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Upgrades

  • Docker 1.12.5
  • Docker Compose 1.9.0

Skipped Docker for Windows 1.12.4

We did not distribute a 1.12.4 stable release

Docker for Windows 1.12.3, 2016-11-09

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New

  • Restore the virtual machine’s configuration after user changes

  • Detect firewall configurations that might block file sharing

  • Send more GUI usage statistics to help us improve the product

  • The path to HyperV disks is not hardcoded anymore, making the Toolbox import work with non-standard paths

  • Verify that all HyperV features are enabled

  • Added Moby console to the logs

  • Save the current engine with the other settings

  • Notary version 0.4.2 installed

  • Reworked the File Sharing dialog and underlying mechanism

    • Pre-fill username
    • Faster and more reliable feedback when the user/password is not valid
    • Better support for domain users
    • Error message in Logs when File Sharing failed for other reasons

Upgrades

  • Docker 1.12.3
  • Linux Kernel 4.4.27
  • Docker Machine 0.8.2
  • Docker Compose 1.8.1
  • aufs 20160912

Bug fixes and minor changes

General

  • Added the settings to the diagnostics

  • Made sure we didn’t use an older Nlog library from the GAC

  • Fixed a password escaping regression

  • Supports writing large values to the database, specially for trusted CAs

  • Preserves the Powershell stacktraces

  • Writes OS and Application versions at the top of each log file

  • Don’t recreate the virtual machine if only the DNS server is set

  • The uninstaller now kills the service if it failed to stop it properly

  • Improved debug information

Networking

  • VpnKit is now restarted if it stops

  • VpnKit: impose a connection limit to avoid exhausting file descriptors

  • VpnKit: handle UDP datagrams larger than 2035 bytes

  • VpnKit: reduce the number of file descriptors consumed by DNS

File sharing

  • Faster mount/unmount of shared drives

  • Added a timeout to mounting/unmounting a shared drive

Hyper-V

  • Make sure invalid “DockerNat” switches are not used

Moby

Docker for Windows 1.12.1, 2016-09-16

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Important Note:

The auto-update function in Beta 21 cannot install this update. To install the latest beta manually if you are still on Beta 21, download the installer here:

https://download.docker.com/win/beta/InstallDocker.msi

This problem is fixed as of Beta 23 for subsequent auto-updates.

New

  • To support trusted registry transparently, all trusted CAs (root or intermediate) on the Windows host are automatically copied to Moby

  • Reset Credentials also unshares the shared drives

  • Logs are now rotated every day

  • Support multiple DNS servers

  • Added mfsymlinks SMB option to support symlinks on bind mounted folder

  • Added nobrl SMB option to support sqlite on bind mounted folders

  • Detect outdated versions of Kitematic

Upgrades

  • Docker 1.12.1
  • Docker machine 0.8.1
  • Linux kernel 4.4.20
  • aufs 20160905

Bug fixes and minor changes

General

  • Uploading a diagnostic now shows a proper status message in the Settings

  • Docker stops asking to import from the Toolbox after an upgrade

  • Docker can now import from the Toolbox just after HyperV is activated

  • Added more debug information to the diagnostics

  • Sending anonymous statistics doesn’t hang anymore when Mixpanel is not available

  • Support newlines in release notes

  • Improve the error message when the Docker daemon is not responding

  • The configuration database is now stored in memory

  • Preserve the stacktrace of PowerShell errors

  • Display service stacktrace in error windows

Networking

  • Improve name servers discovery
  • VpnKit supports search domains
  • VpnKit is now compiled with OCaml 4.03 rather than 4.02.3

File sharing

  • Set cifs version to 3.02

  • VnpKit: reduce the number of sockets used by UDP NAT, reduce the probability

  • slirp: reduce the number of sockets used by UDP NAT, reduce the probability that NAT rules time out earlier than expected

  • Fixed password handling for host file system sharing

Hyper-V

  • Automatically disable lingering net adapters that prevent Docker from starting or using the network

  • Automatically delete duplicated MobyLinuxVMs on a reset to factory defaults

  • Improved the HyperV detection and activation mechanism

Moby

  • Fixed Moby Diagnostics and Update Kernel

  • Use default sysfs settings, transparent huge pages disabled

  • Cgroup mount to support systemd in containers

Known issues

Docker for Windows 1.12.0, 2016-07-28

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  • First stable release

Components

  • Docker 1.12.0
  • Docker Machine 0.8.0
  • Docker Compose 1.8.0
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