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Moby v1.9.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2015-11-03 // over 8 years ago

  • ⚙ Runtime

    • 🐳 docker stats now returns block IO metrics (#15005)
    • 🐳 docker stats now details network stats per interface (#15786)
    • ➕ Add ancestor=<image> filter to docker ps --filter flag to filter containers based on their ancestor images (#14570)
    • ➕ Add label=<somelabel> filter to docker ps --filter to filter containers based on label (#16530)
    • ➕ Add --kernel-memory flag to docker run (#14006)
    • ➕ Add --message flag to docker import allowing to specify an optional message (#15711)
    • ➕ Add --privileged flag to docker exec (#14113)
    • ➕ Add --stop-signal flag to docker run allowing to replace the container 🚦 process stopping signal (#15307)
    • ➕ Add a new unless-stopped restart policy (#15348)
    • Inspecting an image now returns tags (#13185)
    • ➕ Add container size information to docker inspect (#15796)
    • ➕ Add RepoTags and RepoDigests field to /images/{name:.*}/json (#17275)
    • ✂ Remove the deprecated /container/ps endpoint from the API (#15972)
    • Send and document correct HTTP codes for /exec/<name>/start (#16250)
    • Share shm and mqueue between containers sharing IPC namespace (#15862)
    • Event stream now shows OOM status when --oom-kill-disable is set (#16235)
    • Ensure special network files (/etc/hosts etc.) are read-only if bind-mounted with ro option (#14965)
    • 👌 Improve rmi performance (#16890)
    • ⚡️ Do not update /etc/hosts for the default bridge network, except for links (#17325)
    • 🛠 Fix conflict with duplicate container names (#17389)
    • 🛠 Fix an issue with incorrect template execution in docker inspect (#17284)
    • 🐳 DEPRECATE -c short flag variant for --cpu-shares in docker run (#16271)

    Client

    • 👍 Allow docker import to import from local files (#11907)

    🏗 Builder

    • ➕ Add a STOPSIGNAL Dockerfile instruction allowing to set a different 🚦 stop-signal for the container process (#15307)
    • ➕ Add an ARG Dockerfile instruction and a --build-arg flag to docker build 🏗 that allows to add build-time environment variables (#15182)
    • 👌 Improve cache miss performance (#16890)

    Storage

    • devicemapper: Implement deferred deletion capability (#16381)

    Networking

    • 🚀 docker network exits experimental and is part of standard release (#16645)
    • 🆕 New network top-level concept, with associated subcommands and API (#16645) WARNING: the API is different from the experimental API
    • 👌 Support for multiple isolated/micro-segmented networks (#16645)
    • Built-in multihost networking using VXLAN based overlay driver (#14071)
    • 👌 Support for third-party network plugins (#13424)
    • Ability to dynamically connect containers to multiple networks (#16645)
    • 👌 Support for user-defined IP address management via pluggable IPAM drivers (#16910)
    • ➕ Add daemon flags --cluster-store and --cluster-advertise for built-in nodes discovery (#16229)
    • ➕ Add --cluster-store-opt for setting up TLS settings (#16644)
    • ➕ Add --dns-opt to the daemon (#16031)
    • 🗄 DEPRECATE following container NetworkSettings fields in API v1.21: EndpointID, Gateway, GlobalIPv6Address, GlobalIPv6PrefixLen, IPAddress, IPPrefixLen, IPv6Gateway and MacAddress. Those are now specific to the bridge network. Use NetworkSettings.Networks to inspect the networking settings of a container per network.

    Volumes

    • 🆕 New top-level volume subcommand and API (#14242)
    • 🚚 Move API volume driver settings to host-specific config (#15798)
    • 🖨 Print an error message if volume name is not unique (#16009)
    • 🐳 Ensure volumes created from Dockerfiles always use the local volume driver (#15507)
    • 🗄 DEPRECATE auto-creating missing host paths for bind mounts (#16349)

    🌲 Logging

    • ➕ Add awslogs logging driver for Amazon CloudWatch (#15495)
    • ➕ Add generic tag log option to allow customizing container/image information passed to driver (e.g. show container names) (#15384)
    • 🐳 Implement the docker logs endpoint for the journald driver (#13707)
    • 🗄 DEPRECATE driver-specific log tags (e.g. syslog-tag, etc.) (#15384)

    Distribution

    • 🐳 docker search now works with partial names (#16509)
    • Push optimization: avoid buffering to file (#15493)
    • The daemon will display progress for images that were already being pulled by another client (#15489)
    • Only permissions required for the current action being performed are requested (#)
    • Renaming trust keys (and respective environment variables) from offline to root and tagging to repository (#16894)
    • 🗄 DEPRECATE trust key environment variables DOCKER_CONTENT_TRUST_OFFLINE_PASSPHRASE and DOCKER_CONTENT_TRUST_TAGGING_PASSPHRASE (#16894)

    🔒 Security

    • ➕ Add SELinux profiles to the rpm package (#15832)
    • 🛠 Fix various issues with AppArmor profiles provided in the deb package (#14609)
    • ➕ Add AppArmor policy that prevents writing to /proc (#15571)