# Docker Engine prior releases — Runtime

> Support hairpin NAT without going through Docker server. devicemapper: succeed immediately when removing non-existent devices. devicemapper: improve handling of devicemapper devices (add per device lock, increase sleep time and unlock while sleeping). devicemapper: increase timeout in waitClose to 1

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Support hairpin NAT without going through Docker server. devicemapper: succeed immediately when removing non-existent devices. devicemapper: improve handling of devicemapper devices (add per device lock, increase sleep time and unlock while sleeping). devicemapper: increase timeout in waitClose to 10 seconds. devicemapper: ensure we shut down thin pool cleanly. devicemapper: pass info, rather than hash to activateDeviceIfNeeded, deactivateDevice, setInitialized, deleteDevice. devicemapper: avoid AB-BA deadlock. devicemapper: make shutdown better/faster. improve alpha sorting in mflag. Remove manual http cookie management because the cookiejar is being used. Use BSD raw mode on Darwin. Fixes nano, tmux and others. Add FreeBSD support for the client. Merge auth package into registry. Add deprecation warning for -t on docker pull. Remove goroutine leak on error. Update parseLxcInfo to comply with new lxc1.0 format. Fix attach exit on darwin. Improve deprecation message. Retry to retrieve the layer metadata up to 5 times for docker pull. Only unshare the mount namespace for execin. Merge existing config when committing. Disable daemon startup timeout. Fix issue #4681: add loopback interface when networking is disabled. Add failing test case for issue #4681. Send SIGTERM to child, instead of SIGKILL. Show the driver and the kernel version in docker info even when not in debug mode. Always symlink /dev/ptmx for libcontainer. This fixes console related problems. Fix issue caused by the absence of /etc/apparmor.d. Don't leave empty cidFile behind when failing to create the container. Mount cgroups automatically if they're not mounted already. Use mock for search tests. Update to double-dash everywhere. Move .dockerenv parsing to lxc driver. Move all bind-mounts in the container inside the namespace. Don't use separate bind mount for container. Always symlink /dev/ptmx for libcontainer. Don't kill by pid for other drivers. Add initial logging to libcontainer. Sort by port in docker ps. Move networking drivers into runtime top level package. Add --no-prune to docker rmi. Add time since exit in docker ps. graphdriver: add build tags. Prevent allocation of previously allocated ports &amp; prevent improve port allocation. Add support for --since/--before in docker ps. Clean up container stop. Add support for configurable dns search domains. …

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