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Release notes for previous versions

This page contains release notes for older versions of Docker Desktop for Windows.

Stable Releases of 2018

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

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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 allowlisted. 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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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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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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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

  • 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/953open_in_new)
    • 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#1374open_in_new)
    • 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#569open_in_new)
  • New installer experience

Bug fixes and minor changes

  • Fixed group access check for users logged in with Active Directory (fixes docker/for-win#785open_in_new)
  • 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#670open_in_new)
  • 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.msiopen_in_new

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 automatically disables lingering net adapters. The only way to remove them is manually using devmgmt.msc.

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