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 #14011 #14041

🐛 Fixes

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

🔧 Internal

• Test: Set stop_signal to SIGTERM in nginx-based services by @ricardobranco777 in #13881
• Chore: inline needlessly extracted single-use helpers by @ndeloof in #14048
• Add ENGINE column driven by label by @nicksieger in #13959

⚙️ Dependencies

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

New Contributors

• @ericwyles made their first contribution in #14010
• @Endika made their first contribution in #13992
• @brano-osif made their first contribution in #14038

Full Changelog: v5.4.0...v5.5.0