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title: Docker Engine 18.06 release notes
linkTitle: Engine v18.06
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## 18.06.3-ce
2019-02-19
### Security fixes for Docker Engine
* Change how the `runc` critical vulnerability patch is applied to include the fix in RPM packages. [docker/engine#156](https://github.com/docker/engine/pull/156)
## 18.06.2
2019-02-11
### Security fixes for Docker Engine
* Update `runc` to address a critical vulnerability that allows specially-crafted containers to gain administrative privileges on the host. [CVE-2019-5736](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-5736)
* Ubuntu 14.04 customers using a 3.13 kernel will need to upgrade to a supported Ubuntu 4.x kernel
## 18.06.1-ce
2018-08-21
### Builder
- Fix no error if build args are missing during docker build. [docker/engine#25](https://github.com/docker/engine/pull/25)
+ Set BuildKit's ExportedProduct variable to show useful errors. [docker/engine#21](https://github.com/docker/engine/pull/21)
### Client
+ Various shell completion script updates: [docker/cli#1229](https://github.com/docker/cli/pull/1229),
[docker/cli#1268](https://github.com/docker/cli/pull/1268), and [docker/cli#1272](https://github.com/docker/cli/pull/1272)
- Fix `DOCKER_CONFIG` warning message and fallback search. [docker/cli#1241](https://github.com/docker/cli/pull/1241)
- Fix help message flags on `docker stack` commands and sub-commands. [docker/cli#1267](https://github.com/docker/cli/pull/1267)
### Runtime
* Disable CRI plugin listening on port 10010 by default. [docker/engine#29](https://github.com/docker/engine/pull/29)
* Update containerd to v1.1.2. [docker/engine#33](https://github.com/docker/engine/pull/33)
- Windows: Do not invoke HCS shutdown if terminate called. [docker/engine#31](https://github.com/docker/engine/pull/31)
* Windows: Select polling-based watcher for Windows log watcher. [docker/engine#34](https://github.com/docker/engine/pull/34)
### Swarm Mode
- Fix the condition used for skipping over running tasks. [docker/swarmkit#2677](https://github.com/docker/swarmkit/pull/2677)
- Fix task sorting. [docker/swarmkit#2712](https://github.com/docker/swarmkit/pull/2712)
## 18.06.0-ce
2018-07-18
### Important notes about this release
- Docker 18.06 CE will be the last release with a 4-month maintenance lifecycle. The planned Docker 18.09 CE release will be supported for 7 months with Docker 19.03 CE being the next release in line. More details about the release process can be found [here](/get-started/get-docker.md).
### Builder
* Builder: fix layer leak on multi-stage wildcard copy. [moby/moby#37178](https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/37178)
* Fix parsing of invalid environment variable substitution . [moby/moby#37134](https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/37134)
* Builder: use the arch info from base image. [moby/moby#36816](https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/36816) [moby/moby#37197](https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/37197)
+ New experimental builder backend based on [BuildKit](https://github.com/moby/buildkit). To enable, run daemon in experimental mode and set `DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1` environment variable on the docker CLI. [moby/moby#37151](https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/37151) [docker/cli#1111](https://github.com/docker/cli/pull/1111)
- Fix handling uppercase targets names in multi-stage builds. [moby/moby#36960](https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/36960)
### Client
* Bump spf13/cobra to v0.0.3, pflag to v1.0.1. [moby/moby#37106](https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/37106)
* Add support for the new Stack API for Kubernetes v1beta2. [docker/cli#899](https://github.com/docker/cli/pull/899)
* K8s: more robust stack error detection on deploy. [docker/cli#948](https://github.com/docker/cli/pull/948)
* Support for rollback config in compose 3.7. [docker/cli#409](https://github.com/docker/cli/pull/409)
* Update Cobra and pflag, and use built-in --version feature. [docker/cli#1069](https://github.com/docker/cli/pull/1069)
* Fix `docker stack deploy --prune` with empty name removing all services. [docker/cli#1088](https://github.com/docker/cli/pull/1088)