# Docker Engine version 29 release notes — Packaging updates

> client: remove legacy CBC cipher suites from client config. moby/moby#50126 contrib: remove editorconfig as it was unmaintained. moby/moby#50607 contrib: remove Dockerfile syntax highlighting files for nano and TextMate (tmbundle) as they were unmaintained and outdated. moby/moby#50606 contrib: remo

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client: remove legacy CBC cipher suites from client config. moby/moby#50126 contrib: remove editorconfig as it was unmaintained. moby/moby#50607 contrib: remove Dockerfile syntax highlighting files for nano and TextMate (tmbundle) as they were unmaintained and outdated. moby/moby#50606 contrib: remove mkimage-xxx scripts as they were unmaintained and not tested. moby/moby#50297 If Docker is downgraded to a version that does not have this support the network will become unusable, it must be deleted and re-created. moby/moby#50114 The Windows overlay network driver now supports option --dns. moby/moby#51229 Update BuildKit to v0.25.2. moby/moby#51397 Update containerd to v2.1.5. moby/moby#51409

containerd v2.1.5 now uses systemd's default LimitNOFILE for containers, changing the open file descriptor limit (ulimit -n) from 1048576 to 1024. This extends a change introduced in Docker Engine v25.0 for build containers to all containers.

This prevents programs that adjust behavior based on ulimits from consuming excessive memory when the limit is set to infinity. Containers now behave the same way as programs running on the host.

If your workload needs a higher limit, use --ulimit with docker run, or set defaults in /etc/docker/daemon.json

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  {
    "default-ulimits": {
      "nofile": {
        "Name": "nofile",
        "Soft": 1048576,
        "Hard": 1048576
      }
    }
  }
```

For more information, see moby#51485. Update Go runtime to 1.25.4. moby/moby#51418, docker/cli#6632 Users can request a specific prefix size for networks allocated from the default pools by using the unspecified address, for example --subnet 0.0.0.0/24 --subnet ::/96. moby/moby#50114

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