Docker Desktop Updates & Release Notes

<em class="text-gray-400 italic dark:text-gray-500">2023-09-28</em>

New

• The new Notification center is now available to all users so you can be notified of new releases, installation progress updates, and more. Select the bell icon in the bottom-right corner of the Docker Desktop Dashboard to access the notification center.
• Compose Watch is now available to all users. For more information, see Use Compose Watch.
• Resource Saver is now available to all users and is enabled by default. To configure this feature, navigate to the Resources tab in Settings. For more information see Docker Desktop's Resource Saver mode.
• You can now view and manage the Docker Engine state, with pause, stop, and resume, directly from the Docker Desktop Dashboard.

Upgrades

• Compose v2.22.0
• Go 1.21.1
• Wasm runtimes:
  • wasmtime, wasmedge v0.2.0.
  • lunatic, slight, spin, and wwsv0.9.1.
  • Added wasmer wasm shims.

Bug fixes and enhancements

For all platforms

• Docker Init:
  • Fixed an issue formatting Dockerfile file paths for ASP.NET projects on Windows.
  • Improved performance on language detection for large directories with lots of files. …

<em class="text-gray-400 italic dark:text-gray-500">2023-09-11</em>

Upgrades

• Compose v2.21.0
• Docker Engine v24.0.6
• Docker Scout CLI v0.24.1.
• Wasm runtimes:
  • wasmtime, wasmedge revision d0a1a1cd.
  • slight and spin wasm v0.9.0.

New

• Added support for new Wasm runtimes: wws and lunatic.
• docker init now supports ASP.NET
• Increased performance of exposed ports on macOS, for example with docker run -p.

Removed

• Removed Compose V1 from Docker Desktop as it has stopped receiving updates. Compose V2 has replaced it and is now integrated into all current Docker Desktop versions.

Bug fixes and enhancements

For all platforms

• With Docker Scout, you can now:
  • Manage temporary and cached files with docker scout cache.
  • Manage environments with docker scout environment.
  • Configure the default organization with docker scout config.
  • List packages of an image with their vulnerabilities with docker scout cves --format only-packages.
  • Enroll an organization with Docker scout with docker scout enroll.
  • Stop, analyze, and compare local file systems with docker scout cves --type fs. …

<em class="text-gray-400 italic dark:text-gray-500">2023-08-03</em>

Upgrades

• Buildx v0.11.2
• Compose v2.20.2
• Docker Engine v24.0.5

[!NOTE]

In this release, the bundled Docker Compose and Buildx binaries show a different version string. This relates to our efforts to test new features without causing backwards compatibility issues.

For example, docker buildx version outputs buildx v0.11.2-desktop.1.

New

• Resource Usage has moved from experimental to GA.
• You can now split large Compose projects into multiple sub-projects with include.

Bug fixes and enhancements

For all platforms

• Settings Management now lets you turn off Docker Extensions for your organisation.
• Fixed a bug where turning on Kubernetes from the UI failed when the system was paused.
• Fixed a bug where turning on Wasm from the UI failed when the system was paused.
• Bind mounts are now shown when you inspect a container.
• You can now download Wasm runtimes when the containerd image store is enabled.
• With Quick Search, you can now: …

<em class="text-gray-400 italic dark:text-gray-500">2023-06-29</em>

New

• Added support for new Wasm runtimes: slight, spin, and wasmtime. Users can download Wasm runtimes on demand when the containerd image store is enabled.
• Added Rust server support to Docker init.
• Beta release of the Builds view that lets you inspect builds and manage builders. This can be found in the Features in Development tab in Settings.

Upgrades

• Buildx v0.11.0
• Compose v2.19.0
• Kubernetes v1.27.2
• cri-tools v1.27.0
• cri-dockerd v0.3.2
• coredns v1.10.1
• cni v1.2.0
• etcd v3.5.7

Bug fixes and enhancements

For all platforms

• Docker Desktop now automatically pauses the Docker Engine when it is not in use and wakes up again on demand.
• VirtioFS is now the default file sharing implementation for new installations of Docker Desktop on macOS 12.5 and higher. …

<em class="text-gray-400 italic dark:text-gray-500">2023-06-05</em>

Bug fixes and enhancements

For all platforms

• containerd image store: Fixed a bug that caused docker load to fail when loading an image that contains attestations.
• containerd image store: Fixed the default image exporter during build.

For Windows

• Fixed a bug that made it difficult to parse the WSL version on the host in non-western locales. Fixes docker/for-win#13518 and docker/for-win#13524.

<em class="text-gray-400 italic dark:text-gray-500">2023-05-30</em>

Upgrades

• Buildx v0.10.5
• Compose v2.18.1
• Docker Engine v24.0.2
• Containerd v1.6.21
• runc v1.1.7

Bug fixes and enhancements

For all platforms

• Docker Scout CLI now finds the most recently built image if it is not provided as an argument.
• Improved the Docker Scout CLI compare command.
• Added a warning about the retirement of Docker Compose ECS/ACS integrations in November 2023. Can be suppressed with COMPOSE_CLOUD_EOL_SILENT=1.
• Fixed an HTTP proxy bug where an HTTP 1.0 client could receive an HTTP 1.1 response.
• Enabled Docker Desktop's Enhanced Container Isolation (ECI) feature on WSL-2. This is available with a Docker Business subscription.
• Fixed a bug on the Containers table where previously hidden columns were displayed again after a fresh installation of Docker Desktop.

For Mac …

<em class="text-gray-400 italic dark:text-gray-500">2023-04-27</em>

New

• Docker Engine and CLI updated to Moby 23.0.
• The Learning Center now supports in-product walkthroughs.
• Docker init (Beta) now supports Node.js and Python.
• Faster networking between VM and host on macOS.
• You can now inspect and analyze remote images from Docker Desktop without pulling them.
• Usability and performance improvements to the Artifactory images view.

Removed

• Removed docker scan command. To continue learning about the vulnerabilities of your images, and many other features, use the new docker scout command. Run docker scout --help, or read the docs to learn more.

Upgrades

• Docker Engine v23.0.5
• Compose 2.17.3
• Containerd v1.6.20
• Kubernetes v1.25.9
• runc v1.1.5
• Go v1.20.3

Bug fixes and enhancements

For all platforms

• Improved docker scout compare command to compare two images, now also aliased under docker scout diff. …

<em class="text-gray-400 italic dark:text-gray-500">2023-04-03</em>

New

• Initial beta release of docker init as per the roadmap.
• Added a new Learning Center tab to help users get started with Docker.
• Added an experimental file-watch command to Docker Compose that automatically updates your running Compose services as you edit and save your code.

Upgrades

• Buildx v0.10.4
• Compose 2.17.2
• Containerd v1.6.18, which includes fixes for CVE-2023-25153 and CVE-2023-25173.
• Docker Engine v20.10.24, which contains fixes for CVE-2023-28841, CVE-2023-28840, and CVE-2023-28842.

Bug fixes and enhancements

For all platforms

• Docker Scout CLI can now compare two images and display packages and vulnerabilities differences. This command is in Early Access and might change in the future. …

<em class="text-gray-400 italic dark:text-gray-500">2023-03-20</em>

Bug fixes and enhancements

For Windows

• Docker Desktop now allows Windows containers to work when BitLocker is enabled on C:
• Fixed a bug where docker buildx container builders would lose access to the network after 24hrs.
• Fixed a bug where Registry Access Management policy updates were not downloaded.
• Improved debug information to better characterise failures under WSL 2.

Known Issues

• Running containers with --gpus on Windows with the WSL 2 backend does not work. This will be fixed in future releases. See docker/for-win/13324.

<em class="text-gray-400 italic dark:text-gray-500">2023-02-27</em>

New

• Docker Desktop now ships with Docker Scout. Pull and view analysis for images from Docker Hub and Artifactory repositories, get base image updates and recommended tags and digests, and filter your images on vulnerability information. To learn more, see Docker Scout.
• docker scan has been replaced by docker scout. See Docker Scout CLI, for more information.
• You can now discover extensions that have been autonomously published in the Extensions Marketplace. For more information on self-published extensions, see Marketplace Extensions.
• Container File Explorer is available as an experimental feature. Debug the filesystem within your containers straight from the GUI.
• You can now search for volumes in Global Search.

Upgrades

• Containerd v1.6.18, which includes fixes for CVE-2023-25153 and CVE-2023-25173.
• Docker Engine v20.10.23.
• Go 1.19.5

Bug fixes and enhancements

For all platforms

• Fixed a bug where diagnostic gathering could hang waiting for a subprocess to exit. …

<em class="text-gray-400 italic dark:text-gray-500">2023-01-19</em>

Bug fixes and enhancements

For all platforms

• Fixed an issue where docker build and docker tag commands produced an image already exists error if the containerd integration feature is enabled.
• Fixed a regression introduced with Docker Desktop 4.16 breaking networking from containers with target platform linux/386 on amd64 systems. Fixes docker/for-mac/6689.

For Mac

• Fixed the capitalization of Info.plist which caused vmnetd to break on case-sensitive file systems. Fixes docker/for-mac/6677.

For Windows

• Fixed a regression introduced with Docker Desktop 4.16 causing it to get stuck in the "starting" phase when in WSL2 mode. Fixes docker/for-win/13165

<em class="text-gray-400 italic dark:text-gray-500">2023-01-12</em>

New

• Extensions have moved from Beta to GA.
• Quick Search has moved from experimental to GA.
• Extensions are now included in Quick Search.
• Analyzing large images is now up to 4x faster.
• New local images view has moved from experimental to GA.
• New Beta feature for MacOS 13, Rosetta for Linux, has been added for faster emulation of Intel-based images on Apple Silicon.

Upgrades

• Compose v2.15.1
• Containerd v1.6.14
• Docker Engine v20.10.22
• Buildx v0.10.0
• Docker Scan v0.23.0
• Go 1.19.4

Bug fixes and enhancements

For all platforms

• Fixed docker build --quiet not outputting the image identifier with the containerd integration.
• Fixed image inspect not showing image labels with the containerd integration.
• Increased the contrast between running and stopped container icons to make it easier for colorblind people to scan the containers list.
• Fixed a bug where the user is prompted for new HTTP proxy credentials repeatedly until Docker Desktop is restarted. …

<em class="text-gray-400 italic dark:text-gray-500">2022-12-01</em>

New

• Substantial performance improvements for macOS users with the option of enabling the new VirtioFS file sharing technology. Available for macOS 12.5 and above.
• Docker Desktop for Mac no longer needs to install the privileged helper process com.docker.vmnetd on install or on the first run. For more information see Permission requirements for Mac.
• Added WebAssembly capabilities. Use with the containerd integration.
• Improved the descriptions for beta and experimental settings to clearly explain the differences and how people can access them.
• Available disk space of VM now displays in the footer of Docker Desktop Dashboard for Mac and Linux.
• A disk space warning now displays in the footer if available space is below 3GB.
• Changes to Docker Desktop's interface as we become more ADA accessible and visually unified.
• Added a Build tab inside Extensions which contains all the necessary resources to build an extension.
• Added the ability to share extensions more easily, either with docker extension share CLI or with the share button in the extensions Manage tab.
• Extensions in the Marketplace now display the number of installs. You can also sort extensions by the number of installs. …