Our journey has been remarkable. Recently, Docker shifted focus from Docker Swarm, specializing in container orchestration, to the “inner loop” — the foundation — of the Software Development Life Cycle (SLDC).

At Docker, we’re dedicated to optimizing the “inner loop” to ensure your journey from development to deployment and in-production software management is flawless.

Figure 1: Startup time improvements across dev environments from Docker Desktop 4.12 to 4.23.

We’ve introduced support for Zstandard (zstd) compression of Docker container images in Docker Desktop 4.19 to lighten the load, reducing container image sizes with remarkable results.

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