# Docker for Windows 2.x release notes — Bug fixes and minor changes

> Fixed an issue that prevented users from creating files with special characters in the filenames within a shared volume.

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Fixed an issue that prevented users from creating files with special characters in the filenames within a shared volume. Fixes docker/for-win#5520. Fixed handling of shared volumes with relative paths in docker-compose.yml. Fixes docker/for-win#5516. Fixed handling of shared volumes where the path case (uppercase / lowercase) did not exactly match the host. Fixes docker/for-win#5516. Fixed an issue where changing a file in the Windows file system did not update the file within the container. Fixes docker/for-win#5530 and docker/for-win#5550. Fixed an issue that prevented users from sharing drives and sometimes incorrectly prompted users to enter file system credentials. Fixes docker/for-win#5567. Fixed an issue which prevented users from mounting nested volumes. Fixes docker/for-win#5540. Fixed a file synchronization issue on bind mounts. Fixes docker/for-win#5533. Fixed an issue where timestamps were reset to zero on files within shared volumes. Fixes docker/for-win#5528 and docker/for-win#5543. Fixed a bug which caused Docker Desktop to fail when sharing file paths longer than 260 characters. Fixes docker/for-win#5572. Fixed an issue where some users were unable to start a container if there is a symlink in a shared volume. Fixes docker/for-win#5582. Fixed a bug where users were unable to modify the Manual proxy configuration settings through the Docker Desktop UI. Fixes docker/for-win#5606 and docker/for-win#5548. Fixed an issue where the Docker Desktop UI failed to start if the no_proxy environment variable has an entry that starts with a dot (.). Fixes docker/for-win/5551. Fixed a bug that did not allow users to access the Docker Desktop UI on machines with a policy preventing access to the Windows registry. Fixes docker/for-win#5536. Fixed an issue where disabling the WSL2 integration and re-enabling it later resulted in broken symlinks. Fixes docker/for-win#5613. Fixed a race condition when starting the WSL engine which caused Docker Desktop to incorrectly report that the containers have exited. Fixes docker/for-win#5607. Fixed an issue where editing code inside a container resulted in an error. Fixes docker/for-win#5528. Fixed a bug where running the command DockerCli.exe -SharedDrives failed to display a list of drives that are shared. Fixes docker/for-win#5625. …

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