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, please refer to Update Windows Server containers.
Available server container images
Windows Server 2022
Note
Because of a required change in how the Windows Server Container images are generated for Windows Server 2022, there will not be a delta container image for the June 2023 release. Instead of the delta container image, the release for June 2023 will be a new full container image that will replace the original release layer going forward. Future delta releases will use the June 2023 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 |
20348.1787 | Cumulative LCU: KB5027225 SSU version 20348.1780 (included in LCU) |
x64 | en-us |
| Windows Server 2022 Nano Server Container Nano Server |
20348.1787 | Cumulative LCU: KB5027225 SSU version 20348.1780 (included in LCU) |
x64 | en-us |
| Windows Server 2022 Container Windows Server |
20348.1787 | Cumulative LCU: KB5027225 SSU version 20348.1780 (included in LCU) |
x64 | en-us |
Windows Server 2019
Note
NOTE Because of a required change in how the Windows Server Container images are generated for Windows Server 2019, there will not be a delta container image for the June 2023 release. Instead of the delta container image, the release for June 2023 will be a new full container image that will replace the original release layer going forward. Future delta releases will use the June 2023 container as the new baseline. Therefore, there may be a one-time increase in container pull time.
Note
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 |
17763.4499 | Cumulative LCU: KB5027222 SSU version 17763.4121 (included in LCU) |
x64 | en-us |
| Windows Server 2019 Nano Server Container Nano Server |
17763.4499 | Cumulative LCU: KB5027222 SSU version 17763.4121 (included in LCU) |
x64 | en-us |
| Windows Server 2019 Windows Container Windows |
17763.4499 | Cumulative LCU: KB5027222 SSU version 17763.4121 (included in LCU) |
x64 | en-us |
Windows Server 2016
Note
NOTE Because of a required change in how the Windows Server Container images are generated for Windows Server 2016, there will not be a delta container image for the June 2023 release. Instead of the delta container image, the release for June 2023 will be a new full container image that will replace the original release layer going forward. Future delta releases will use the June 2023 container as the new baseline. Therefore, there may be a one-time increase in container pull time.
| Container | Version | KB | Architecture | Languages |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Windows Server 2016 Server Core Container Windows Server Core |
14393.5989 | Cumulative LCU: KB5027219 SSU: KB5023788 |
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 |
Known issues
We are currently not aware of any issues with this update.
References
Update Windows Server containers
For information on .NET Framework support, please refer to the following documentation.