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This page contains release notes for Docker Desktop for Windows 3.x. 

## Docker Desktop 3.6.0
2021-08-11

### New

- **Dev Environments**: You can now create a Dev Environment from your local Git repository. 
- **Volume Management**: You can now sort volumes by the name, the date created, and the size of the volume. You can also search for specific volumes using the **Search** field. For more information, see [Explore volumes](../use-desktop/volumes.md).

### Upgrades

- [Compose V2 RC1](https://github.com/docker/compose-cli/releases/tag/v2.0.0-rc.1)
  - Docker compose command line completion.
  - Allow setting 0 scale/replicas.
  - Detect new container on logs —follow.
- [Go 1.16.7](https://github.com/golang/go/releases/tag/go1.16.7)
- [Docker Engine 20.10.8](/manuals/engine/release-notes/20.10.md#20108)
- [containerd v1.4.9](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/releases/tag/v1.4.9)
- [runc v1.0.1](https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/releases/tag/v1.0.1)
- [Kubernetes 1.21.3](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/releases/tag/v1.21.3)
- [Linux kernel 5.10.47](https://hub.docker.com/layers/docker/for-desktop-kernel/5.10.47-0b705d955f5e283f62583c4e227d64a7924c138f/images/sha256-a4c79bc185ec9eba48dcc802a8881b9d97e532b3f803d23e5b8d4951588f4d51?context=repo)

### Bug fixes and minor changes

- Update kernel configuration to fix a performance regression in [Docker Desktop 3.0.0](#docker-desktop-300)
  that caused publishing container ports to take 10 times longer than on older
  versions. For more information, see [linuxkit/linuxkit#3701](https://github.com/linuxkit/linuxkit/pull/3701)
  and [docker/for-mac#5668](https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/5668).
- Fixed a bug where the DNS server would fail after receiving an unexpectedly large datagram.
- Fixed spurious traces on iptables updates.
- Fixed slowness when adding multiple ports forwarding option.
- Fixed bug where the WSL 2 synchronization code creates dangling symlinks if the WSL 2 home directory if it is the same as the Windows home directory. Fixes [docker/for-win#11668](https://github.com/docker/for-win/issues/11668).
- Fixed `docker context ls` after upgrade from 3.5.x when the Linux WSL 2 home directory is the same as the Windows home directory.
- Fixed the permissions on `%PROGRAMDATA%\Docker` to avoid a potential Windows containers compromise. See [CVE-2021-37841](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-37841). Thanks to [Alessio Dalla Piazza](http://it.linkedin.com/in/alessiodallapiazza) for discovering the issue and to @kevpar for helpful discussion.
- Fixed bug where the Linux home directory under WSL 2 was set to the Windows home directory e.g. `/mnt/c/Users/...`.
- Fixed bug where Desktop would fail to start if it could not parse CLI contexts. Fixes [docker/for-win#11601](https://github.com/docker/for-win/issues/11601).
- Fixed an issue related to log display inside a container [docker/for-win#11251](https://github.com/docker/for-win/issues/11251).
- Fixed failures of the Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service preventing Docker Desktop to start. [docker/for-win#11273](https://github.com/docker/for-win/issues/11273)

## Docker Desktop 3.5.2
2021-07-08

### New

**Dev Environments Preview**: Dev Environments enable you to seamlessly collaborate with your team members without moving between Git branches to get your code onto your team members' machines. When using Dev Environments, you can share your in-progress work with your team members in just one click, and without having to deal with any merge conflicts. 

### Upgrades

- [Compose V2 beta 6](https://github.com/docker/compose-cli/releases/tag/v2.0.0-beta.6)