v0.18.0-rc1

Note

Slight delay in follow-up RCs and eventual GA release for this round

Welcome to the v0.18.0-rc1 release of buildx!
This is a pre-release of buildx

Please try out the release binaries and report any issues at
https://github.com/docker/buildx/issues.

Contributors

• CrazyMax
• Tõnis Tiigi
• Jonathan A. Sternberg
• Talon Bowler
• Guillaume Lours

Notable Changes

• ls command output is now more compact by default by compacting the platform list. New --no-trunc option can be used for full list #2138 #2717
• inspect command now displays BuildKit daemon configuration options set with a TOML file #2684
• Memory allocations have been reduced by switching to new protobuf implementation #2724 #2713
• Size limits for maximum Dockerfile sizes from standard input have been raised #2716 #2719
• Fix possible issues with entitlements when using linked targets in Bake #2701
• Fallback images for --check/--call option have been updated to correct references #2705
• Improve error messages with source code snippets by mapping the file to the correct path #2672
• Fix invalid target linking validation for Bake #2700

Dependency Changes

• github.com/cespare/xxhash/v2 v2.2.0 -> v2.3.0
• github.com/compose-spec/compose-go/v2 v2.1.6 -> v2.2.0
• github.com/containerd/containerd v1.7.21 -> v1.7.22
• github.com/docker/cli 48a2cdff970d -> v27.3.1
• github.com/docker/docker v27.2.1 -> v27.3.1
• github.com/moby/buildkit v0.16.0 -> v0.17.0-rc1
• github.com/moby/sys/sequential v0.5.0 -> v0.6.0
• github.com/planetscale/vtprotobuf 0393e58bdf10 new
• github.com/tonistiigi/fsutil 91a3fc46842c -> 3f140a1299b0
• golang.org/x/exp db7319d0e0e3 -> 701f63a606c0
• google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/api ef4313101c80 -> ef581f913117
• google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/rpc ef4313101c80 -> ef581f913117
• google.golang.org/grpc v1.62.0 -> v1.66.2
• google.golang.org/grpc/cmd/protoc-gen-go-grpc v1.5.1 new

Previous release can be found at v0.17.1