Recommended update for Docker

SUSE Recommended Update: Recommended update for Docker
Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2015:1386-1
Rating: low
References: #935570 #938156
Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Containers 12
    		•

    An update that has two recommended fixes can now be installed.

    Description:

    This update for Docker provides version 1.7.1 with various fixes and
    improvements (bsc#935570, bsc#938156):

    - Runtime
    + Fix default user spawning exec process with docker exec
    + Make --bridge=none not to configure the network bridge
    + Publish networking stats properly
    + Fix implicit devicemapper selection with static binaries
    + Fix socket connections that hung intermittently
    + Fix bridge interface creation on CentOS/RHEL 6.6
    + Fix local dns lookups added to resolv.conf
    + Fix copy command mounting volumes
    + Fix read/write privileges in volumes mounted with --volumes-from
    + Experimental feature: support for out-of-process volume plugins
    + The userland proxy can be disabled in favor of hairpin NAT using the
    daemon’s `--userland-proxy=false` flag
    + The `exec` command supports the `-u|--user` flag to specify the new
    process owner
    + Default gateway for containers can be specified daemon-wide using the
    `--default-gateway` and `--default-gateway-v6` flags
    + The CPU CFS (Completely Fair Scheduler) quota can be set in `docker
    run` using `--cpu-quota`
    + Container block IO can be controlled in `docker run`
    using`--blkio-weight`
    + ZFS support
    + The `docker logs` command supports a `--since` argument
    + UTS namespace can be shared with the host with `docker run --uts=host`

    - Remote API
    + Fix unmarshalling of Command and Entrypoint
    + Set limit for minimum client version supported
    + Validate port specification
    + Return proper errors when attach/reattach fail

    - Distribution
    + Fix pulling private images
    + Fix fallback between registry V2 and V1
    + Client support for v2 mirroring support for the official registry

    - Quality
    + Networking stack was entirely rewritten as part of the libnetwork
    effort
    + Engine internals refactoring
    + Volumes code was entirely rewritten to support the plugins effort
    + Sending SIGUSR1 to a daemon will dump all goroutines stacks without
    exiting

    - Build
    + Support ${variable:-value} and ${variable:+value} syntax for
    environment variables
    + Support resource management flags `--cgroup-parent`, `--cpu-period`,
    `--cpu-quota`, `--cpuset-cpus`, `--cpuset-mems`
    + git context changes with branches and directories
    + The .dockerignore file support exclusion rules

    - Bugfixes
    + Firewalld is now supported and will automatically be used when
    available
    + mounting --device recursively

    Patch Instructions:

    To install this SUSE Recommended Update use YaST online_update.
    Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Containers 12:
      zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Containers-12-2015-400=1

    To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

    Package List:

    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Containers 12 (x86_64):
      • docker-1.7.1-40.1
      • docker-debuginfo-1.7.1-40.1
      • docker-debugsource-1.7.1-40.1

    References: