What's Changed

ℹ️ This release overhauls image digest reconciliation to prevent unnecessary container recreation.
Existing containers may be recreated the first time you run compose up after upgrading, as image digests are re-evaluated using the new logic.

compose pull now honors pull_policy refresh windows (daily, weekly, every_N).

✨ Improvements

• New image digest reconciliation process by @glours & @ndeloof https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14011 https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14041

🐛 Fixes

• Fix(bridge): skip pulling default image references for build-only ser… by @ericwyles in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14010
• Fix(watch): stop pruning every dangling image of the project by @glours in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14012
• Fix(config): resolve service environment when computing --hash by @glours in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14002
• Fix(watch): skip unreadable directories instead of failing the watch by @Endika in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/13992
• Fix: ignore one-off container events in up monitor by @brano-osif in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14038
• Fix(bridge): validate arguments of bridge subcommands by @glours in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14003
• Fix(images): tolerate containers whose image record is gone by @ndeloof in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14028

🔧 Internal

• Test: Set stop_signal to SIGTERM in nginx-based services by @ricardobranco777 in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/13881
• Chore: inline needlessly extracted single-use helpers by @ndeloof in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14048
• Add ENGINE column driven by label by @nicksieger in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/13959

⚙️ Dependencies

• Build(deps): bump github.com/moby/moby/client from 0.5.0 to 0.5.1 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/13999
• Build(deps): bump github/codeql-action/upload-sarif from 4.37.3 to 4.37.4 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14009
• Build(deps): bump github/codeql-action/upload-sarif from 4.37.4 to 4.37.5 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14019
• Build(deps): bump github.com/moby/buildkit from 0.32.1 to 0.32.2 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14033
• Build(deps): bump github.com/docker/buildx from 0.36.0 to 0.36.1 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14034
• Build(deps): bump docker/github-builder/.github/workflows/bake.yml from 1.15.0 to 1.16.0 in the docker-actions group by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14035
• Build(deps): bump github.com/moby/go-archive from 0.3.2 to 0.3.3 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14043
• Build(deps): bump github/codeql-action/upload-sarif from 4.37.5 to 4.37.6 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14022
• Build(deps): bump github.com/docker/cli from 29.6.2+incompatible to 29.7.2+incompatible by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14042
• Build(deps): bump google.golang.org/grpc from 1.82.1 to 1.83.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14008
• Bump golang to version 1.26.6 by @glours in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14045

New Contributors

• @ericwyles made their first contribution in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14010
• @Endika made their first contribution in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/13992
• @brano-osif made their first contribution in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/14038

Full Changelog: https://github.com/docker/compose/compare/v5.4.0...v5.5.0