compose v5.6.0

What’s Changed

ℹ️ This release adds partial support for jobs: only manually-triggered jobs are supported for now, scheduled jobs are not yet available. Full job support will land once the corresponding Docker Engine support is merged.

✨ Improvements

Jobs

• Adopt compose-go jobs and container-spec layering by @ndeloof in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14093

Provider services

• Feat(provider): get-service-config provider request by @ndeloof in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14175
• Feat(provider): publish-endpoint deploys a network relay for provider services by @ndeloof in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14193
• Get-relay-info tells providers where to bind for the relay by @ndeloof in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14258
• Feat(compose): dedicated network for the provider relay link by @ndeloof in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14275
• Provider services take part in the image phase, with image distribution on demand by @ndeloof in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14252

Other

• Feat(compose): warn on unsupported compose-file attributes by @glours in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14196
• PRIVATE_PORT optional for docker compose port by @maxproske in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/13577

🐛 Fixes

• Fix(build): hand unresolved ‘auto’ progress mode to bake by @ndeloof in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14194
• Fix(watch): coalesce rebuilds triggered during a burst of file changes by @glours in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14202
• Fix(port): preserve tie order for dual-stack port publishers by @glours in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14213
• Fix(publish): warn when push falls back from OCI 1.1 to OCI 1.0 by @htoyoda18 in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14146
• Fix: detect externally stopped and removed containers in up monitor by @glours in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/13990
• Fix(dry-run): commit no longer creates a real image; the interception set becomes declarative by @ndeloof in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14150
• Fix(up): drop benign context.Canceled noise from the final report by @ndeloof in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14227
• Fix(relay): reconnect to new networks when routes are unchanged by @ndeloof in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14236
• Fix(provider): clean up stale relay and guard start/restart against it by @ndeloof in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14238
• Fix(hash): pin the service config-hash byte layout, decoupled from compose-go struct refactorings by @ndeloof in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14215
• Fix(hash): repair main after #14093/#14215 merged in reverse order by @ndeloof in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14253
• Fix(logs): restart re-attach loses a fast run’s output — found by deflaking e2e by @ndeloof in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14140
• Fix: provider migration condemns the service’s stale replicas by @ndeloof in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14264
• Fix/down rmi dangling images by @glours in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14266
• Fix/dry run service completed successfully 14269 by @glours in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14270
• Fix: honor —parallel across all bulk engine-call fan-outs by @glours in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14177
• Fix: adapt to compose-go v2.16.1 promoting x-initialSync silently by @glours in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14281

🔧 Internal

• Remove jonboulle/clockwork for testing/synctest by @thaJeztah in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14185
• Rebuild the TTY progress renderer on a model/layout/screen split by @ndeloof in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14051
• Golangci-lint: enable perfsprint linter by @thaJeztah in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14207
• Cmd/prompt: remove uses of github.com/AlecAivazis/survey/v2 by @thaJeztah in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14161
• Chore: update docker-agent-action to v2.0.8 by @docker-agent in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14197
• Chore: update docker-agent-action to v2.0.9 by @docker-agent in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14225
• Test(e2e): wait on state, not on an unsynchronized log line by @ndeloof in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14228
• E2e coverage for git and OCI remote stacks by @ndeloof in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14226
• Ci: lint, vet and test relay/ as its own module by @ndeloof in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14235
• Test(e2e): reproduce #14223 — additional_contexts to a disabled service by @ndeloof in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14242
• Test(e2e): reproduce —project-directory ignored on an oci:// project (#14224) by @ndeloof in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14234
• Test(e2e): fix TestPullFailure’s daemon-specific error assertion by @ricardobranco777 in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14245
• Plan engine: reconciler plans the start phase (epic #14081, lot 1) by @ndeloof in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14200
• Add AI Policy by @glours in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/13550
• Pre_start hook runners become reconciliation-plan resources by @ndeloof in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14221
• Chore: remove duplicate ‘publish’ registration under ‘alpha’ by @glours in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14272
• Dependabot: disable cooldown for compose-spec, docker, moby modules by @thaJeztah in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14276

⚙️ Dependencies

• Fix(deps): github.com/containerd/containerd/v2 v2.3.5 by @thaJeztah in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14183
• Build(deps): bump softprops/action-gh-release from 3.0.2 to 3.0.3 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14195
• Fix(deps): github.com/moby/sys/userns v0.2.1 by @thaJeztah in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14199
• Build(deps): bump golang.org/x/sys from 0.47.0 to 0.48.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14205
• Build(deps): bump golang.org/x/sync from 0.22.0 to 0.23.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14206
• Build(deps): bump github.com/mattn/go-runewidth from 0.0.23 to 0.0.29 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14208
• Build(deps): bump tags.cncf.io/container-device-interface from 1.1.0 to 1.1.1 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14218
• Build(deps): bump github.com/moby/moby/api from 1.55.0 to 1.56.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14211
• Feat(deps): github.com/docker/cli v29.8.0 by @thaJeztah in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14138
• Build(deps): bump github.com/mattn/go-shellwords from 1.0.14 to 1.0.15 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14246
• Build(deps): bump the docker-actions group across 1 directory with 3 updates by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14254
• Build(deps): github.com/DefangLabs/secret-detector 3e28d7ed64df by @thaJeztah in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14240
• Build(deps): bump codecov/codecov-action from 7.0.0 to 7.1.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14247
• Build(deps): bump github/codeql-action/upload-sarif from 4.37.9 to 4.38.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14231
• Build(deps): bump github.com/mattn/go-runewidth from 0.0.29 to 0.0.30 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14239
• Build(deps): bump codecov/codecov-action from 7.1.0 to 7.1.1 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14256
• Build(deps): bump github.com/docker/cli from 29.8.0+incompatible to 29.8.1+incompatible by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14255
• Build(deps): bump github.com/docker/cli from 29.8.1+incompatible to 29.8.2+incompatible by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14279
• Build(deps): bump github/codeql-action/upload-sarif from 4.38.0 to 4.38.2 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14280
• Build(deps): bump github.com/moby/buildkit from 0.33.0 to 0.33.1 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14277
• Build(deps): bump google.golang.org/grpc from 1.83.2 to 1.84.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14262
• Build(deps): bump moby/moby and containerd/containerd/v2 by @ndeloof in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14282

Full Changelog: https://github.com/docker/compose/compare/v5.5.1…v5.6.0

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