Overview
This patch release integrates several bug fixes and improvements.
Fixes include false positive mitigations for the new container sorting algorithm's circular reference detection, correcting the no-pull configuration option to correctly monitor the local image cache, and ensuring that setting the notifications level provides the expected level of control over both report and legacy notification verbosity. This release also integrates the latest version of Shoutrrr, which includes subsequent notification fixes.
Improvements include the adding a template entry for the formatting of the self-update cleanup notification message. In addition, the self-update process has been further refined to allow regular, non-Watchtower updates immediately proceeding a self-update, rather than being initially skipped. This should hopefully allow for expected container updates while still preventing Watchtower from spawning orphaned Watchtower containers.
⚠️ As previously mentioned, a rolling-restart container update strategy is not compatible with linked/dependent containers. Watchtower's v1.13 addition of Docker Compose depends-on support now correctly enforces this through the "sanity check" warning. Docker restart policies that ensure Watchtower repeatedly restarts will result in the repeated restarts of Watchtower and subsequent repetition of the warning until the configuration is corrected. ⚠️
Improvements
- Improve punctuation in multiple Watchtower instances log message by @nicholas-fedor in #1136
- Refine Watchtower Self-Update Behavior by @nicholas-fedor in #1137
Bug Fixes
- Fix no-pull mode to enable local image updates by @nicholas-fedor in #1099
- Fix WATCHTOWER_NOTIFICATIONS_LEVEL being ignored in report mode by @nicholas-fedor in #1115
- Fix false positive circular reference detection in dependency sorting by @nicholas-fedor in #1120
- Fix false positive circular reference detection for containers with same service names by @nicholas-fedor in #1139
Notes
- This is expected to be the final release for 2025.
- As always, if there are bugs, issues, features, etc that you need help with, then please reference either the Issues or Discussions.
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Full Changelog: v1.13.0...v1.13.1