# Docker Engine prior releases — Runtime

> Add --experimental daemon flag to enable experimental features, instead of shipping them in a separate build #27223 Add a --shutdown-timeout daemon flag to specify the default timeout (in seconds) to stop containers gracefully before daemon exit #23036 Add --stop-timeout to specify the timeout value

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Add --experimental daemon flag to enable experimental features, instead of shipping them in a separate build #27223 Add a --shutdown-timeout daemon flag to specify the default timeout (in seconds) to stop containers gracefully before daemon exit #23036 Add --stop-timeout to specify the timeout value (in seconds) for individual containers to stop #22566 Add a new daemon flag --userland-proxy-path to allow configuring the userland proxy instead of using the hardcoded docker-proxy from $PATH #26882 Add boolean flag --init on dockerd and on docker run to use tini a zombie-reaping init process as PID 1 #26061 #28037 Add a new daemon flag --init-path to allow configuring the path to the docker-init binary #26941 Add support for live reloading insecure registry in configuration #22337 Add support for storage-opt size on Windows daemons #23391 Improve reliability of docker run --rm by moving it from the client to the daemon #20848 Add support for --cpu-rt-period and --cpu-rt-runtime flags, allowing containers to run real-time threads when CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED is enabled in the kernel #23430 Allow parallel stop, pause, unpause #24761 / #26778 Implement XFS quota for overlay2 #24771 Fix partial/full filter issue in service tasks --filter #24850 Allow engine to run inside a user namespace #25672 Fix a race condition between device deferred removal and resume device, when using the devicemapper graphdriver #23497 Add docker stats support in Windows #25737 Allow using --pid=host and --net=host when --userns=host #25771 (experimental) Add metrics (Prometheus) output for basic container, image, and daemon operations #25820 Fix issue in docker stats with NetworkDisabled=true #25905 Add docker top support in Windows #25891 Record pid of exec'd process #27470 Add support for looking up user/groups via getent #27599 Add new docker system command with df and prune subcommands for system resource management, as well as docker {container,image,volume,network} prune subcommands #26108 #27525 / #27525 Fix an issue where containers could not be stopped or killed by setting xfs max_retries to 0 upon ENOSPC with devicemapper #26212 Fix docker cp failing to copy to a container's volume dir on CentOS with devicemapper #28047 Promote overlay(2) graphdriver #27932 Add --seccomp-profile daemon flag to specify a path to a seccomp profile that overrides the default #26276 Fix ulimits in …

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