What's Changed

🎉 You can now use external binaries as service provider to extend Compose behaviour. For more information about creating your own plugin check the documentation

✨ Improvements

• Introduce networks.interface_name by @ndeloof in #12771
• Add support for COMPOSE_PROGRESS env variable by @AnvarU in #12769
• Document extensibility using service.provider and open provider to external binaries by @ndeloof in #12777
• Introduce build --check by @ndeloof in #12765

🐛 Fixes

• Build: write --print output to stdout by @emersion in #12756
• Fix: concurrent map writes when pulling by @skanehira in #12752
• Fix support for remote absolute path by @ndeloof in #12786
• Fix collect image digests for service images built by bake by @ndeloof in #12784
• Enable services implicitly declared by a service:xx build dependency by @ndeloof in #12785
• Fix config --variables not honoring the --format flag by @alessio-perugini in #12809

🔧 Internal

• Remove support of Synchronize File Shares integration with Docker Desktop by @glours in #12763
• Display proper event message for provider services on up and down by @glours in #12788
• E2e test for start_interval by @ndeloof in #12795
• Document behavior on missing extension by @ndeloof in #12802

⚙️ Dependencies

• Build(deps): bump github.com/docker/cli from 28.1.0+incompatible to 28.1.1+incompatible by @dependabot in #12761
• Build(deps): bump github.com/docker/docker from 28.1.0+incompatible to 28.1.1+incompatible by @dependabot in #12759
• Build(deps): bump google.golang.org/grpc from 1.71.1 to 1.72.0 by @dependabot in #12760
• Build(deps): bump github.com/containerd/containerd/v2 from 2.0.4 to 2.0.5 by @dependabot in #12758
• Bump compose-go to v2.6.1 by @glours in #12766
• Bump compose-go to v2.6.2 by @glours in #12810
• Build(deps): bump github.com/moby/buildkit from 0.21.0 to 0.21.1 by @dependabot in #12796
• Build(deps): bump golang.org/x/sync from 0.13.0 to 0.14.0 by @dependabot in #12805
• Build(deps): bump golang.org/x/sys from 0.32.0 to 0.33.0 by @dependabot in #12804
• Build(deps): bump go.uber.org/mock from 0.5.1 to 0.5.2 by @dependabot in #12792

New Contributors

• @skanehira made their first contribution in #12752
• @AnvarU made their first contribution in #12769
• @alessio-perugini made their first contribution in #12809

Full Changelog: v2.35.1...v2.36.0