We take backwards compatibility seriously. If you encounter problems updating from one version of Docker to the next (whether from 1.13.1 to 17.03 or from 17.03 to the upcoming 17.04), please open an issue on docker/docker so that can fix the incompatibility and improve our change process.
Quoting from the blog post:
The Docker API version continues to be independent of the
Docker platform version and the API version does not
change from Docker 1.13.1 to Docker 17.03. Even with the
faster release pace, Docker will continue to maintain
careful API backwards compatibility and deprecate APIs and
features only slowly and conservatively. And in Docker
1.13 introduced improved interoperability between clients
and servers using different API versions, including
dynamic feature negotiation.
Quoting from the blog post:
- https://blog.docker.com/2017/03/docker-enterprise-edition/