Release notes for Docker Home, the Admin Console, billing, security, and subscription features

This page provides details on new features, enhancements, known issues, and bug fixes across Docker Home, the Admin Console, billing, security, and subscription functionalities.

2026-02-13

New

• Administrators can now control whether organization members can push content to their personal namespaces on Docker Hub with namespace access control.
• Administrators can now prevent creating public repositories within organization namespaces using the Disable public repositories setting.

2026-01-27

New

• Administrators can now use an allow list with Image Access Management to approve specific repositories that bypass image access controls.

2025-01-30

New

• Installing Docker Desktop via the PKG installer is now generally available.
• Enforcing sign-in via configuration profiles is now generally available.

2024-12-10

New

• New Docker subscriptions are now available. For more information, see Docker subscriptions and features and Announcing Upgraded Docker Plans: Simpler, More Value, Better Development and Productivity.

2024-11-18

New

• Administrators can now:
  • Enforce sign-in with configuration profiles (Early Access).
  • Enforce sign-in for more than one organization at a time (Early Access).
  • Deploy Docker Desktop for Mac in bulk with the PKG installer (Early Access).
  • Use Desktop Settings Management via the Docker Admin Console (Early Access).

Bug fixes and enhancements

• Enhance Container Isolation (ECI) has been improved to:
  • Permit admins to turn off Docker socket mount restrictions.
  • Support wildcard tags when using the allowedDerivedImages setting.

2024-11-11

New

• Personal access tokens (PATs) now support expiration dates.

2024-10-15

New

• Beta: You can now create organization access tokens (OATs) to enhance security for organizations and streamline access management for organizations in the Docker Admin Console.

2024-08-29

New

• Deploying Docker Desktop via the MSI installer is now generally available.
• Two new methods to enforce sign-in (Windows registry key and .plist file) are now generally available.

2024-08-24

New

• Administrators can now view organization Insights.

2024-07-17

New

• You can now centrally access and manage Docker products in Docker Home.