Docker Desktop Alpha and Beta Releases (February-March 2016): File Sharing, Stability, and Performance Enhancements

- Fixed a race condition on the logs - Fixed a race condition on the settings - Fixed broken links in the documentation - Replaced `sha1` with actual version in the assemblies - Don't start the unused agent process ### Beta 5 Release (2016-03-29 1.10.6) **Enhancements** * Remove debug console * Open browser with hyper-v installation instructions * Added CloudFront for downloads from Europe * Capture qemu logs during toolbox upgrades * Rename alpha distribution channel to beta **Bug Fixes** * Fix diagnose section in bugsnag report * Fix msi version * Don't truncate Toolbox link > [!NOTE] > > Docker for Windows skipped from Beta 1 to Beta 5 at this point to synch up the version numbering with Docker for Mac, which went into beta cycles a little earlier. ### Beta 1 Release (2016-03-24 1.10.6) **Enhancements** - Display the third party licenses - Display the license agreement - The application refuses to start if Hyper-V is not enabled - Rename `console` to `debug console` - Remove `machine` from notification - Open the feedback forum - Use same MixPanel project for Windows and macOS - Align MixPanel events with macOS - Added a script to diagnose problems - Submit diagnostic with bugsnag reports - MixPanel heartbeat every hour **Bug Fixes** - Accept all versions of Enterprise 10, Pro 10 and Education 10 during installation (Eval, N, ...) - Fix Linux kernel crashes with certain applications or somesuch - Fix notifications that are not shown - Animate the systray whale on reset - Shorten the enrollment process timeout - Properly unmount shares when the user un-selects the setting - Don't install on unsupported builds ### Alpha 4 Release (2016-03-10 1.10.4.0) - Faster Startup & Shutdown - Use host DNS parameters - Enrollment System - Recreating manually removed vm - More MixPanel Events - Various Bug Fixes ### Alpha 3 Release (2016-03-03 1.10.2.14) **File sharing** - Create network share automatically - Improve Credentials management - Support paths with c and C drive **Crashes and Analytics** - Report crashes with Bugsnag - Send analytics through MixPanel **GUI** - Improve layout of About and Settings dialog - Improve Updater - Link to *Help* - Link to *Send Feeback* **General** - Bug fixes ### Alpha 2 Release (2016-02-26 1.10.2.12) **Installer** - Enhancements - Auto-update - License agreement **General** - Bug fixes ### Alpha 1 Release (2016-02-22 1.10.1.42-1) **Hypervisor** - significant performance improvements **Security** - retrieving credentials from user **Filesystem** - hot-mounting host filesystem with credential **General** - state management - stability, logging - bugfixes, eye candies ### Alpha 0 Release (2016-02-09 1.10.0.0-0) **Hypervision** - Hyper-V-backed virtual machines - boots Moby in a few seconds - installs CLI in `PATH` - proxies Docker commands to Moby **Filesystem** - mounts host filesystem to support `--volume` - Samba client with a hardcoded password - allows live reload **Networking** - live debugging Node.js application

This section outlines the releases of Docker Desktop from Alpha 0 (2016-02-09) to Beta 5 (2016-03-29), detailing enhancements and bug fixes. Key features include Hyper-V support, file sharing improvements, crash reporting with Bugsnag, analytics through MixPanel, GUI improvements, and faster startup/shutdown times. Specific enhancements include host DNS parameters, enrollment system, MixPanel event tracking, diagnostic scripts, and acceptance of various Windows 10 versions. Bug fixes address Linux kernel crashes, notification issues, systray animation, share unmounting, and unsupported builds. Notable changes include renaming distribution channels (alpha to beta) and synchronizing version numbers with Docker for Mac. The releases focus on stability, performance, security, and user experience improvements, with each release building upon the previous one.