Docker Desktop for Windows Stable Release notes

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This page contains information about the new features, improvements, known issues, and bug fixes in Docker Desktop Stable releases.

For information about Edge releases, see the Edge release notes. For Docker Desktop system requirements, see What to know before you install.

Docker Desktop Community 2.3.0.3

2020-05-27

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Bug fixes and minor changes

  • Fixed a crash when resetting to factory defaults with Hyper-V disabled. Fixes docker/for-win#6738.
  • Fixed opening an application in VS Code from a WSL 2 running app. Fixes docker/for-win#6472.
  • Fixed Swarm mounts in WSL 2. Fixes docker/for-win#6507.
  • Fixed a bug when using the Microsoft mssql image. Fixes docker/for-win#6646
  • Implemented fallocate for shared file systems. See docker/for-win#6658
  • Fixed an installer crash when an old and/or partially uninstalled version of Docker Desktop was present on the system. Fixes docker/for-win#6536.
  • Fixed a delay caused when opening the systray menu. Fixes docker/for-win#1011.
  • Fixed a regression where containers couldn’t anymore refer to mounted folders using the host drive letters. Fixes docker/for-win#6628.
  • Fixed a regression where sharing a folder using a double leading slash notation would fail. Fixes docker/for-win#6668.
  • Re-added device-mapper to the embedded Linux kernel. Fixes docker/for-mac#4549.
  • Fixed an issue which caused the :z attribute in bind mounts to fail. Fixes docker/for-win#6634.

Docker Desktop Community 2.3.0.2

2020-05-11

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New

  • Windows 10 Home users can now use Docker Desktop through WSL 2. This requires Windows 10, version 2004 or higher. For more information, see Install Docker Desktop on Windows Home.
  • Docker Desktop introduces a new onboarding tutorial upon first startup. The Quick Start tutorial guides users to get started with Docker in a few easy steps. It includes a simple exercise to build an example Docker image, run it as a container, push and save the image to Docker Hub.
  • Docker Desktop now allows sharing individual folders, rather than whole drives, giving more control to users over what is being shared.

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Bug fixes and minor changes

WSL 2

  • Docker Desktop only exposes host ports in Linux if the Windows port is available.
  • Docker Desktop now allows users to refresh the list of distros.
  • Docker Desktop defaults to WSL 2 on install on compatible OS versions.
  • Docker Desktop detects missing Linux kernel and adds a pointer to the Microsoft documentation to download the kernel.
  • Detect when the WSL 2 backend stops and allow the user to restart it.
  • Added support for chmod/chown on WSL 2 bind mounts. Fixes docker/for-win#6284.
  • Added a check that virtualization is enabled in the BIOS.

Filesharing

  • Fixed a bug where renaming parent directories of shared folders led to spurious File not found errors. Fixes docker/for-win#6200.
  • Fixed bug where a letter and two digit root folder name causes docker-compose to fail creating directories inside the volume. Fixes docker/for-win#6248.
  • Fixed a bug which prevented containers from seeing file updates on shared volumes, when under load and a container restarts. Fixes docker/for-win#5530.
  • Fixed a bug where host paths are incorrectly translated into VM paths. Fixes docker/for-win#6209.
  • Fixed bug receiving file events on long paths (> 260 characters). Fixes docker/for-win#6337.
  • Docker Desktop represents valid directory junctions as directories (rather than symlinks) and handles cache invalidation and event injection properly. Fixes docker/for-win#5582.

Other fixes

  • Reduced the size of the Docker Desktop installer from 960 MB to 409 MB.
  • Added an option to delete data from the Troubleshoot screen.
  • Fixed a bug where containers disappeared from the UI when Kubernetes context is invalid. Fixed docker/for-win#6037.
  • Fixed Windows event logs filtering when copying them to the Docker Desktop log files. Fixed docker/for-win#6258.
  • Fixed a handle leak in vpnkit-bridge. Fixed docker/for-win#5841
  • Fixed bug when removing Docker Desktop virtual switch.
  • Added a link to the Edge channel from the UI.
  • Made the embedded terminal resizable.
  • Fixed a bug which only respected the expose on TCP Docker engine API setting on application restart. Setting will now take effect when the Apply button is clicked.
  • Fixed a bug where diagnostic upload would fail if the username contained spaces.
  • Docker Desktop now reads the Hyper-V VM disk max size on startup and uses it as the value to display in the Settings.
  • Fixed a bug where the Docker Desktop UI could be started without the engine. Fixes docker/for-win#5376.
  • Docker Desktop now uses the least possible privilege for querying the Server service. Fixes docker/for-win#5150.
  • Fixed an issue where a container port could not be exposed on a specific host IP. See docker/for-win#5546.
  • Removed port probing from dashboard, just unconditionally showing links to ports that should be available. Fixes docker/for-win#5903.
  • Ceph support has been removed from Docker Desktop to save disk space.
  • Fixed an issue that caused the Windows log file archive to grow indefinitely. Fixes docker/for-win#5113.
  • Added a prerequisite check in the installer for the LanmanServer service. Fixes docker/for-win#5150

Known issues

  • Some CLI commands fail if you are running Docker Desktop in the experimental Linux Containers on Windows (LCOW) mode. As alternatives, we recommend running either traditional Linux containers, or the WSL 2 backend.

WSL 2

  • Swarm service bind mounts are not always restored correctly.
  • Bind mounts of files living outside of the root mount point (files within /mnt/c, /tmp, /run...) don’t work correctly when multiple containers mount them.

Docker Desktop Community 2.2.0.5

2020-04-02

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Bug fixes and minor changes

Docker Desktop Community 2.2.0.4

2020-03-13

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Bug fixes and minor changes

  • Security: Diagnostics were collected with Administrator privileges, which led to a possible privilege escalation on systems where the Docker Desktop user was not an administrator.
  • Docker Desktop now displays hidden files in shared volumes. Fixes docker/for-win#5808.
  • Docker Desktop now generates the inotify MODIFY events on shared file systems for Windows file sharing. Fixes docker/for-win#5530.
  • Attempts to create files in a shared volume with an identical filename but a different case (uppercase/lowercase) on Windows filesystem will now fail with the error EEXIST. Fixes docker/for-win#5894.
  • Fixed cache invalidation and event injection in shared volumes with host paths longer than 260 characters.
  • Docker Desktop now allows users to rename open files in shared volumes. Fixes docker/for-win#5565.
  • Fixed an issue which caused Docker Desktop Dashboard to attempt connecting to all exposed ports inside a container. Fixes docker/for-win#5903.
  • Kubernetes: Persistent volumes created by claims are now stored in the virtual machine. Fixes docker/for-win#5665.
  • Fixed an issue which caused Docker Desktop to hang when users tried to reset to factory defaults.
  • Fixed a file sharing issue that caused Docker Desktop to lock random files. Fixes docker/for-win#5624 and docker/for-win#5575.

Known issues

  • Some CLI commands fail if you are running Docker Desktop in the experimental Linux Containers on Windows (LCOW) mode. As alternatives, we recommend running either traditional Linux containers, or the experimental WSL backend.

  • It is not possible to resize the disk image using the Docker Desktop Settings UI. If you would like to update the size of the disk image (for example, to 128 GB), run the following command in PowerShell:

    Resize-VHD -Path 'C:\ProgramData\DockerDesktop\vm-data\DockerDesktop.vhdx' -SizeBytes 128gb

Docker Desktop Community 2.2.0.3

2020-02-11

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Bug fixes and minor changes

  • Fixed an issue that prevented users from creating files with special characters in the filenames within a shared volume. Fixes docker/for-win#5520.
  • Fixed handling of shared volumes with relative paths in docker-compose.yml. Fixes docker/for-win#5516.
  • Fixed handling of shared volumes where the path case (uppercase / lowercase) did not exactly match the host. Fixes docker/for-win#5516.
  • Fixed an issue where changing a file in the Windows file system did not update the file within the container. Fixes docker/for-win#5530 and docker/for-win#5550.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented users from sharing drives and sometimes incorrectly prompted users to enter file system credentials. Fixes docker/for-win#5567.
  • Fixed an issue which prevented users from mounting nested volumes. Fixes docker/for-win#5540.
  • Fixed a file synchronization issue on bind mounts. Fixes docker/for-win#5533.
  • Fixed an issue where timestamps were reset to zero on files within shared volumes. Fixes docker/for-win#5528 and docker/for-win#5543.
  • Fixed a bug which caused Docker Desktop to fail when sharing file paths longer than 260 characters. Fixes docker/for-win#5572.
  • Fixed an issue where some users were unable to start a container if there is a symlink in a shared volume. Fixes docker/for-win#5582.
  • Fixed a bug where users were unable to modify the Manual proxy configuration settings through the Docker Desktop UI. Fixes docker/for-win#5606 and docker/for-win#5548.
  • Fixed an issue where the Docker Desktop UI failed to start if the no_proxy environment variable has an entry that starts with a dot (.). Fixes docker/for-win/5551.
  • Fixed a bug that did not allow users to access the Docker Desktop UI on machines with a policy preventing access to the Windows registry. Fixes docker/for-win#5536.
  • Fixed an issue where disabling the WSL2 integration and re-enabling it later resulted in broken symlinks. Fixes docker/for-win#5613.
  • Fixed a race condition when starting the WSL engine which caused Docker Desktop to incorrectly report that the containers have exited. Fixes docker/for-win#5607.
  • Fixed an issue where editing code inside a container resulted in an error. Fixes docker/for-win#5528.
  • Fixed a bug where running the command DockerCli.exe -SharedDrives failed to display a list of drives that are shared. Fixes docker/for-win#5625.
  • Starting with Docker Desktop 2.2.0.3, you must access all shared files using their original case. For example, if you have created a file called test, you must open it as test. Attempts to open the file as Test will fail with the error No such file or directory. For more information, see Tips on shared drives, permissions, and volume mounts in File sharing.

Known issues

  • DockerNAT has been removed from Docker Desktop 2.2.0.0 as using an IP address to communicate from the host to a container is not a supported feature. To communicate from a container to the host, you must use the special DNS name host.docker.internal. We also recommend using ports to communicate from the host to a container. For more information, see Networking.

    However, if your current setup relies on IP addresses for communication, you can use a temporary workaround to reinstate DockerNAT. To do this, open C:\Program Files\Docker\Docker\resources\MobyLinux.ps1 and add $SwitchName = "DockerNAT" between line 175 and 176. Note that the temporary workaround to reinstate DockerNAT may be removed from future releases.

  • Directory junctions in shared volumes pointing outside the shared volume do not work.
  • It is currently not possible to rename open files within shared volumes.
  • In some cases, Docker containers do not synchronize time with the host when the host machine is put to sleep.
  • It is not possible to use localhost in the proxy settings. You can instead use host.docker.internal to work around this issue.

Docker Desktop Community 2.2.0.0

2020-01-21

Docker Desktop 2.2.0.0 contains a Kubernetes upgrade. Your local Kubernetes cluster will be reset after installing this version.

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  • Docker Desktop Dashboard: The new Docker Desktop Dashboard provides a user-friendly interface which enables you to interact with containers and applications, and manage the lifecycle of your applications directly from the UI. In addition, it allows you to access the logs, view container details, and monitor resource utilization to explore the container behavior. For detailed information about the new Dashboard UI, see Docker Desktop Dashboard.

  • WSL 2 backend: The experimental Docker Desktop WSL 2 backend architecture introduces support for Kubernetes, provides an updated Docker daemon, offers VPN-friendly networking, and additional features. For more information, see Docker Desktop WSL 2 backend.

  • New file sharing implementation: Docker Desktop introduces a new file sharing implementation that replaces Samba, CIFS, and Hyper-V networking. The new implementation offers improved I/O performance. Additionally, when using the new file system:

    • Users don’t have to expose the Samba port, and therefore do not experience issues related to IT firewall or drive-sharing policy.

    • There is no need to provide user credentials to Docker Desktop. File access rights are automatically enforced when accessing mounted folders through containers.

      For more information, see the blog post New file sharing implementation in Docker Desktop Windows.

  • Added the WSL Integration option in Settings > Resources to select WSL 2 distributions. This option will be visible only after enabling WSL 2 on your machine.
  • Introduced a new user interface for the Docker Desktop Settings menu.
  • The Restart, Reset, and Uninstall options are now available on the Troubleshoot menu.
  • Added the ability to start and stop existing Compose-based applications and view combined logs in the Docker Desktop Dashboard UI.

Bug fixes and minor changes

  • Enabled Windows features such as Hyper-V and Containers during installation, thereby reducing the need for another restart after installation.
  • Added support for Expect: 100-continue headers in the Docker API proxy. Some HTTP clients such as curl send this header when the payload is large, for example, when creating containers. Fixes moby/moby#39693.
  • Added a loading overlay to the Settings and Troubleshoot windows to prevent editing conflicts.
  • Deactivated the Reset Kubernetes button when Kubernetes is not activated.
  • Improved the navigation in Settings and Troubleshoot UI.
  • Docker Machine is no longer included in the Docker Desktop installer. You can download it separately from the Docker Machine releases page.
  • Docker Desktop now automatically restarts after an update.
  • Fixed an issue where Docker Desktop auto-start was not being disabled properly on some machines.
  • Fixed a container start error when a container has more than one port with an arbitrary or not-yet-configured external port number. For example, docker run -p 80 -p 443 nginx). Fixes docker/for-win#4935 and docker/compose#6998.
  • Fixed an issue which caused Docker Desktop to crash when resetting to factory defaults while running Windows containers.
  • Fixed multiple issues related to Fast Startup.
  • Docker Desktop now supports inotify events on shared filesystems.
  • Docker Desktop startup is now more reliable and does not clash with host firewall software.
  • Fixed a rare issue that caused to Docker Desktop to crash with the error Unable to stop Hyper-V VM: Cannot validate argument on parameter 'SwitchName'. The argument is null or empty.
  • Fixed a bug that caused a rare crash when uninstalling Docker Desktop.
  • Fixed an issue that caused Docker Desktop to fail on startup when there is an incomplete Kubernetes config file.
  • Fixed various stability issues.

Known issues

  • When you start a Docker Compose application and then start a Docker App which has the same name as the Compose application, Docker Desktop displays only one application on the Dashboard. However, when you expand the application, containers that belong to both applications are displayed on the Dashboard.
  • When you deploy a Docker App with multiple containers on Kubernetes, Docker Desktop displays each Pod as an application on the Dashboard.
  • WSL 2 requires Windows 10 Insider Preview build 19018 or greater.
  • The Dashboard stops updating when you switch the container mode between Linux and Windows. To work around this issue, close and reopen the Dashboard.
  • The new gRPC FUSE file sharing implementation does not support connecting to new drives (for example, USB drives) added after Docker Desktop starts. If you would like to share the new drive in Docker Desktop, you must quit Docker Desktop and then start the application to refresh the list of drives in Settings.
  • Sharing files from virtual drives created by ImDisk Toolkit does not work.

Docker Desktop Community 2.1.0.5

2019-11-18

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Docker Desktop 2.1.0.5 contains a Kubernetes upgrade. Note that your local Kubernetes cluster will be reset after installing this version.

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Docker Desktop Community 2.1.0.4

2019-10-21

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Docker Desktop 2.1.0.4 contains a Kubernetes upgrade. Note that your local Kubernetes cluster will be reset after installing this version.

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New

Docker Desktop now enables you to sign into Docker Hub using two-factor authentication. For more information, see Two-factor authentication.

Docker Desktop Community 2.1.0.3

2019-09-16

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Docker Desktop Community 2.1.0.2

2019-09-04

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Docker Desktop 2.1.0.2 contains a Kubernetes upgrade. Your local Kubernetes cluster will be reset after installing this version.

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Docker Desktop Community 2.1.0.1

2019-08-08

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New

  • Selecting the ‘Experimental features’ checkbox in the Daemon, Settings menu turns on experimental features for Docker daemon and Docker CLI.
  • Docker Desktop now checks for stored credentials at startup before attempting to mount any shared drives. This prompts users to reenter the credentials if they are invalid.

Experimental

Experimental features provide early access to future product functionality. These features are intended for testing and feedback only as they may change between releases without warning or can be removed entirely from a future release. Experimental features must not be used in production environments. Docker does not offer support for experimental features.

Docker Desktop Community 2.1.0.0 contains the following experimental features:

  • Docker App: Docker App is a CLI plugin that helps configure, share, and install applications. For more information, see Working with Docker App.
  • Docker Buildx: Docker Buildx is a CLI plugin for extended build capabilities with BuildKit. For more information, see Working with Docker Buildx.

Bug fixes and minor changes

  • Fixed PowerShell script signing issue that caused AuthorizationManager check failed errors on machines with strict group policies on PowerShell script signing. docker/for-win#4376
  • Fixed an issue where users were unable to start Docker Desktop after upgrading to version 2.1.0.0. docker/for-win#4390
  • Fixed an issue where attempts to upgrade Docker Desktop to version 2.1.0.0 sometimes failed with the error value cannot be null. docker/for-win#4343
  • Fixed an issue that caused the installer to hang when upgrading Docker Desktop to version 2.1.0.0. docker/for-win#4387
  • Improved the error messages displayed during VM lifecycle operations. docker/for-win#4348
  • Docker Desktop now supports a configurable user timeout for VMs on slower machines. docker/for-win#4393
  • Restricted the cluster-admin role on local Kubernetes cluster to kube-system namespace.
  • Reduced the VM startup time. swap is not created every time a virtual machine boots.
  • Fixed a bug which caused Windows to crash when a user cancels switching the version using Windows User Account Control (UAC) settings.
  • Fixed an issue where Docker Desktop restarts when a user logs out of Windows and logs back in, which results in retaining the exported ports on containers.
  • Fixed Kubernetes installation with VPNkit subnet.
  • Fixed a bug where the process output was not redirected to stdout when gathering diagnostics on Windows, which sometimes resulted in a crash.
  • Fixed race condition where Kubernetes sometimes fails to start after the app is restarted.
  • The system tray icon now opens the Docker Desktop menu with left and right mouse button.
  • When displaying the crash report window, Docker Desktop does not send a bugsnag crash report unless the user needs the report to upload diagnostics.
  • Docker Desktop has removed the ability to log in using email address as a username as the Docker command line does not support this.
  • For Linux containers on Windows (LCOW), the host must run Windows 10 Professional or Windows 10 Enterprise version 1809 or later.
  • The Send usage statistics checkbox is selected by default in Docker Desktop for Windows Community. This option cannot be modified.
  • Docker Desktop has added a new dialog box during startup which allows users to retry mounting a shared drive or remove it from the shared drives list after a failed attempt.
  • Fixed the Kubernetes Delete operation of persistent volume claims on Windows.
  • Docker Desktop now truncates UDP DNS responses which are over 512 bytes in size.
  • Fixed a bug where Docker was not added to PATH after installation in some cases.
  • Fixed port 8080 that was used on localhost when starting Kubernetes.
  • Renamed the product from Docker for Windows to Docker Desktop.
  • Fixed the Create issue link in the Diagnostics window.
  • Fixed a bug related to service log collection in diagnostics.
  • Docker Desktop now gathers /etc/hosts to help with diagnostics.
  • Added the missing daemon options in Docker Engine 18.09.
  • When two services have a common exposed port, Docker Desktop exposes the available ports for the second service.
  • Fixed the UI lock when changing the Kubernetes state.

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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Bug fixes and minor

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

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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
Docker Desktop for Windows, stable, release notes