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content/manuals/desktop/release-notes.md

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 For more frequently asked questions, see the [FAQs](/manuals/desktop/troubleshoot-and-support/faqs/releases.md).
 
+## 4.98.0
+
+{{< release-date date="2026-11-02" >}}
+
+{{< desktop-install-v2 all=true win_arm_release="Early Access" version="4.98.0" build_path="/XXXXXX/" >}}
+
+### New
+
+- Docker VMM is now generally available.
+
+### Updates
+
+- Docker Offload `v0.7.35`
+- The following Kubernetes images have been updated to bring in latest security fixes. New tags listed below:
+   - `docker/desktop-storage-provisioner:v5.0`
+   - `docker/desktop-vpnkit-controller:v5.0`
+   - `docker/desktop-containerd-registry-mirror:v0.0.5`
+   - `docker/desktop-cloud-provider-kind:v0.8.0`
+
+### Bug fixes and enhancements
+
+#### For all platforms
+
+- Added support for running `docker` and `docker compose` from WSL 2 distros when Docker VMM is the engine, including bind mounts of files on Windows drives such as `/mnt/c`.
+- Fixed Docker Hub model pulls failing on proxy-only networks where local DNS could not resolve the authentication endpoint.
+- Fixed Docker Desktop staying on "Starting" after the Docker engine had started. Fixes [docker/desktop-feedback#685](https://github.com/docker/desktop-feedback/issues/685)
+- Fixed `diagnose gather` on slow or stopped VMs by capping the VM start wait to 120 seconds.
+- Improved responsiveness of error dialogs.
+- Fixed moving the disk image to another volume failing when the copy took more than 5 minutes.
+- Fixed uncaught "Request aborted" errors in the Docker Desktop app each time the engine stopped.
+
+#### For Mac
+
+- Removed the `com.docker.vmnetd` privileged helper. A helper installed by a previous version is uninstalled automatically, and the `install vmnetd` option of the command line installer is gone.
+
+#### For Windows
+
+- Added Docker VMM to the "Clean up data" dialog.
+- Fixed WSL error code parsing so that users running newer WSL versions (3.0.x) receive accurate, actionable recovery instructions instead of a generic error message.
+- Fixed the Docker VMM backend option on Windows ARM64 to appear correctly disabled with an explanation in settings, and automatically fall back to WSL 2 during install or upgrade.
+- Fixed an intermittent "being used by another process" error on the `desktop-linux` Docker context file when the engine started.
+- Fixed file sharing treating a directory as shared, or as allowed by Settings Management, when its name only started with that of a shared or allowed directory (e.g. `C:\foobar` for `C:\foo`). Allowed file share entries now match whole directory names only.
+- Fixed an issue where processes started in the Docker Desktop terminal could be left running after closing the terminal.
+
 ## 4.97.0
 
 {{< release-date date="2026-10-26" >}}