On April 18, 2026, Dockhand switched from version 1.0.24 to the new 1.0.25 version. Dockhand fixes the following issues and adds new options:
New – API token authentication – Bearer tokens for CI/CD pipelines and scripts
New – Telegram topic support – send notifications to supergroup topics
Fix: Allow removing healthcheck, ports, and honor startAfterUpdate=false during container edit
Fix: Validate stack names and prevent broken DB entries on invalid input
Fix: Use per-environment timezone for schedule execution log timestamps
Fix: “Pull image before update” and “Start after update” settings ignored
Fix: Image prune timeout on hawser-standard when pruning many images
Fix: Bump Docker Compose to 5.1.2
Fix: Mask secret environment variables in container inspect modal
Fix: Viewer role can toggle, delete, and run schedules
Fix: Settings show defaults instead of saved values after login until page refresh
Fix: Settings toggle notifications show wrong state
Fix: Stack memory tooltip shows inflated total on multi-container stacks
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What is Dockhand? Dockhand allows you to easily manage your different Docker environments. Dockhand is a modern, self-hosted Docker management platform with an intuitive web interface for homelabs, small businesses, and enterprises. It simplifies container operations, stack deployments, and observability through real-time management (start/stop/restart containers, web terminals, file transfers), a visual Compose editor, GitOps auto-sync, metrics, logs, OIDC/SSO, MFA, vulnerability scans, and multi-host support via the open-source Hawser agent. You can deploy it quickly as a Docker container with no cloud dependencies or telemetry. It’s forever free for personal use.
This post was updated on Sunday / April 19th, 2026 at 12:56 AM