We are announcing the upcoming deprecation of QEMU as a virtualization option for Docker Desktop on Apple Silicon Macs.After serving as our legacy virtualization solution during the early transition to Apple Silicon, QEMU will be fully deprecated 90 days from today, on July 14, 2025.This deprecation does not affect QEMU’s role in emulating non-native architectures for multi-platform builds.By moving to Apple Virtualization Framework or Docker VMM, you will ensure optimal performance.

Why We’re Making This Change

Our telemetry shows that a very small

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Today, we are excited to announce the release of a new, open-source Docker Language Server and Docker DX VS Code extension.In a joint collaboration between Docker and the Microsoft Container Tools team, this new integration enhances the existing Docker extension with improved Dockerfile linting, inline image vulnerability checks, Docker Bake file support, and outlines for Docker Compose files.By working directly with Microsoft, we’re ensuring a native, high-performance experience that complements the existing developer workflow.It’s the next evolution of Docker tooling in VS Code — built to help

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Are in-person tech conferences back in fashion?Or are engineers just willing to travel for fresh baguettes?In this post, I round up a few highlights from KubeCon Europe 2024, held March 19-24 in Paris. My last KubeCon was in Detroit in 2022, when tech events were still slowly recovering from COVID.But KubeCon EU in Paris was buzzing, with more than 12,000 attendees!I couldn’t even get into a few of the most popular talks because the lines to get in wrapped around

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Continuous learning is a necessity for developers in today’s fast-paced development landscape.Docker recognizes the importance of keeping developers at the forefront of innovation, and to do so, we aim to empower the developer community with comprehensive learning resources.

Docker has taken a multifaceted approach to developer education by forging partnerships with renowned platforms like Udemy and LinkedIn Learning, investing in our own documentation and guides, and highlighting the incredible learning content created by the developer community, including Docker Captains.

Commitment to developer learning

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I have been recently watching The Americans, a decade-old TV series about undercover KGB agents living disguised as a normal American family in Reagan’s America in a paranoid period of the Cold War.I was not expecting this weekend to be reading mailing list posts of the same type of operation being performed on open source maintainers by agents with equally shadowy identities (CVE-2024-3094). As The Grugq explains, “The JK-persona hounds Lasse (the maintainer) over multiple threads

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