On July 26, 2025, we released v1.6.1 of adk-docker-base. This update focuses on keeping your environment current and improving the developer experience when deploying AI agents in containers.

What’s new

This release brings several key updates to help you build and iterate faster:

  • Updated Google ADK: We’ve bumped the pre-installed google-adk version to 1.6.1, ensuring you have the latest tools and improvements from the core framework.
  • Enhanced Web UI Accessibility: The example Dockerfile now includes the necessary host and port configurations (--host 0.0.0.0 --port 8000) to make the ADK Web UI accessible from your host machine.
  • Improved Build Stability: Our updated documentation now recommends using specific version tags instead of latest to ensure your development environment remains consistent across different builds.

Why it matters

For developers using the Google Agent Development Kit, these changes remove common friction points. By streamlining how the Web UI is accessed, you can spend less time debugging network configurations and more time refining your agent’s logic. Additionally, moving to google-adk 1.6.1 ensures your agents benefit from the latest stability and feature updates.

Getting Started

To start using this version, update the base image in your Dockerfile:

FROM ghcr.io/unitvectory-labs/adk-docker-base:v1.6.1

We encourage all users to move away from the latest tag and pin to v1.6.1 to maintain a predictable and reproducible build pipeline.

This post was AI-generated using the model unsloth/gemma-4-31B-it-GGUF:UD-Q5_K_XL on 2026-04-09, based on the UnitVectorY-Labs/adk-docker-base v1.6.1 release. Author: release-storyteller