Docker 1.12.2 App Container Engine Brings Swarm Mode and Networking Improvements

After being in development for the past two months, the second point release of the major Docker 1.12 open source and cross-platform application container engine has been published.

During its two-month development cycle, Docker 1.12.2 received a total of three Release Candidate (RC) builds, which brought numerous networking and runtime improvements, as well as multiple enhancements to the Swarm Mode feature introduced in the Docker 1.12 release.

Besides the networking, runtime, and Swarm Mode changes, which you can view in detail if you read the changelog attached at the end of the article, Docker 1.12.2 adds stability improvements for the Docker Client under the new macOS Sierra 10.12 operating system from Apple.

Debian SysV-init script now uses dockerd

Among other interesting changes implemented in this second point release of Docker 1.12, we can mention that the Debian SysV-init script has been updated to use the "dockerd" instead of "docker ...