Release Date:

10/09/2024

Version:

Windows Server containers

Microsoft Windows Server containers

As part of servicing each month, we publish updated Windows Server Base OS container images. With these updates, you can automate building updated container images or manually update them by pulling the latest version. Windows Server containers do not have a servicing stack and do not support in-place updates like Windows Server or Windows client. Therefore, every month we rebuild the Windows Server Base OS container images with the updates and publish the updated container images.

For more information on update best practices, see Update Windows Server containers.

Available server container images

IMPORTANT Because of a required change in how the Windows Server Container images are generated for Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, and Windows Server 2022, there is no delta container image for the September 2024 release. Instead of the delta container image, the release for September 2024 is a new full container image that replaces the original release layer. Going forward, delta releases will use the September 2024 container as the new baseline. Therefore, there may be a one-time increase in container pull time.

Container

Version

KB

Architecture

Languages

Windows Server 2022 Server Core Container

Windows Server Core

20348.2700

Cumulative LCU: KB5042881

SSU version 20348.2696 (included in LCU)

x64

en-us

Windows Server 2022 Nano Server Container

Nano Server

20348.2700

Cumulative LCU: KB5042881

SSU version 20348.2696 (included in LCU)

x64

en-us

Windows Server 2022 Container

Windows Server

20348.2700

Cumulative LCU: KB5042881

SSU version 20348.2696 (included in LCU)

x64

en-us

NOTE For all Windows Server 2019 images (Windows Server, Nano Server, and Windows Server Core), we now default to tag LTSC2019. However, you can continue to use the 1809 tag (as before) to pull the latest Nano Server and Windows image.

Container

Version

KB

Architecture

Languages

Windows Server 2019 Server Core Container

Windows Server Core

17763.6293

Cumulative LCU: KB5043050

SSU version 17763.6289 (included in LCU)

x64

en-us

Windows Server 2019 Nano Server Container

Nano Server

17763.6293

Cumulative LCU: KB5043050

SSU version 17763.6289 (included in LCU)

x64

en-us

Windows Server 2019 Windows Container

Windows

17763.6293

Cumulative LCU: KB5043050

SSU version 17763.6289 (included in LCU)

x64

en-us

Container

Version

KB

Architecture

Languages

Windows Server 2016 Server Core Container

Windows Server Core

14393.7336

Cumulative LCU: KB5043051

SSU: KB5043124

x64

cs-cz, de-de, en-us, es-es, fr-fr, hu-hu, it-it, ja-jp, ko-kr, nl-nl, pl-pl, pt-br, pt-pt, ru-ru, sv-se, tr-tr, zh-cn, zh-tw

References

Windows and containers

Update Windows Server containers

For information on .NET Framework support, see dotnet/framework.

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