diff --git a/api/types/swarm/task.go b/api/types/swarm/task.go
index 591e07ba4134b..bb28eec253f1f 100644
--- a/api/types/swarm/task.go
+++ b/api/types/swarm/task.go
@@ -61,6 +61,10 @@ type TaskSpec struct {
 	// spec. If not present, the one on cluster default on swarm.Spec will be
 	// used, finally falling back to the engine default if not specified.
 	LogDriver *Driver `json:",omitempty"`
+
+	// ForceUpdate is a counter that triggers an update even if no relevant
+	// parameters have been changed.
+	ForceUpdate uint64
 }
 
 // Resources represents resources (CPU/Memory).
diff --git a/cli/command/service/update.go b/cli/command/service/update.go
index 797c989271a5c..6034979a666e6 100644
--- a/cli/command/service/update.go
+++ b/cli/command/service/update.go
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ func newUpdateCommand(dockerCli *command.DockerCli) *cobra.Command {
 	flags.String("image", "", "Service image tag")
 	flags.String("args", "", "Service command args")
 	flags.Bool("rollback", false, "Rollback to previous specification")
+	flags.Bool("force", false, "Force update even if no changes require it")
 	addServiceFlags(cmd, opts)
 
 	flags.Var(newListOptsVar(), flagEnvRemove, "Remove an environment variable")
@@ -257,6 +258,15 @@ func updateService(flags *pflag.FlagSet, spec *swarm.ServiceSpec) error {
 		return err
 	}
 
+	force, err := flags.GetBool("force")
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	if force {
+		spec.TaskTemplate.ForceUpdate++
+	}
+
 	return nil
 }
 
diff --git a/contrib/completion/bash/docker b/contrib/completion/bash/docker
index 746207e02e7b3..6131ff5267a72 100644
--- a/contrib/completion/bash/docker
+++ b/contrib/completion/bash/docker
@@ -2473,6 +2473,7 @@ _docker_service_update() {
 		--constraint
 		--endpoint-mode
 		--env -e
+		--force
 		--group-add
 		--label -l
 		--limit-cpu
diff --git a/contrib/completion/zsh/_docker b/contrib/completion/zsh/_docker
index e06082721fc18..415e731f3be16 100644
--- a/contrib/completion/zsh/_docker
+++ b/contrib/completion/zsh/_docker
@@ -1185,6 +1185,7 @@ __docker_service_subcommand() {
                 "($help)--arg=[Service command args]:arguments: _normal" \
                 "($help)*--container-label-add=[Add or update container labels]:label: " \
                 "($help)*--container-label-rm=[Remove a container label by its key]:label: " \
+                "($help)--force[Force update]" \
                 "($help)*--group-rm=[Remove previously added user groups from the container]:group:_groups" \
                 "($help)--image=[Service image tag]:image:__docker_repositories" \
                 "($help)--rollback[Rollback to previous specification]" \
diff --git a/daemon/cluster/convert/service.go b/daemon/cluster/convert/service.go
index 311fe22333116..35718ee58339f 100644
--- a/daemon/cluster/convert/service.go
+++ b/daemon/cluster/convert/service.go
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ func serviceSpecFromGRPC(spec *swarmapi.ServiceSpec) *types.ServiceSpec {
 			Placement:     placementFromGRPC(spec.Task.Placement),
 			LogDriver:     driverFromGRPC(spec.Task.LogDriver),
 			Networks:      taskNetworks,
+			ForceUpdate:   spec.Task.ForceUpdate,
 		},
 
 		Networks:     serviceNetworks,
@@ -136,9 +137,10 @@ func ServiceSpecToGRPC(s types.ServiceSpec) (swarmapi.ServiceSpec, error) {
 			Labels: s.Labels,
 		},
 		Task: swarmapi.TaskSpec{
-			Resources: resourcesToGRPC(s.TaskTemplate.Resources),
-			LogDriver: driverToGRPC(s.TaskTemplate.LogDriver),
-			Networks:  taskNetworks,
+			Resources:   resourcesToGRPC(s.TaskTemplate.Resources),
+			LogDriver:   driverToGRPC(s.TaskTemplate.LogDriver),
+			Networks:    taskNetworks,
+			ForceUpdate: s.TaskTemplate.ForceUpdate,
 		},
 		Networks: serviceNetworks,
 	}
diff --git a/docs/reference/api/docker_remote_api.md b/docs/reference/api/docker_remote_api.md
index 7de05896692b9..6dd001090a327 100644
--- a/docs/reference/api/docker_remote_api.md
+++ b/docs/reference/api/docker_remote_api.md
@@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ This section lists each version from latest to oldest.  Each listing includes a
   containers that are tasks (part of a service in swarm mode).
 * `POST /containers/create` now takes `StopTimeout` field.
 * `POST /services/create` and `POST /services/(id or name)/update` now accept `Monitor` and `MaxFailureRatio` parameters, which control the response to failures during service updates.
+* `POST /services/(id or name)/update` now accepts a `ForceUpdate` parameter inside the `TaskTemplate`, which causes the service to be updated even if there are no changes which would ordinarily trigger an update.
 * `GET /networks/(name)` now returns field `Created` in response to show network created time.
 * `POST /containers/(id or name)/exec` now accepts an `Env` field, which holds a list of environment variables to be set in the context of the command execution.
 * `GET /volumes`, `GET /volumes/(name)`, and `POST /volumes/create` now return the `Options` field which holds the driver specific options to use for when creating the volume.
diff --git a/docs/reference/api/docker_remote_api_v1.25.md b/docs/reference/api/docker_remote_api_v1.25.md
index 2bde899196afd..47bc7efe486d1 100644
--- a/docs/reference/api/docker_remote_api_v1.25.md
+++ b/docs/reference/api/docker_remote_api_v1.25.md
@@ -4915,7 +4915,8 @@ List services
               "Condition": "any",
               "MaxAttempts": 0
             },
-            "Placement": {}
+            "Placement": {},
+            "ForceUpdate": 0
           },
           "Mode": {
             "Replicated": {
@@ -5038,7 +5039,8 @@ image](#create-an-image) section for more details.
           "Condition": "on-failure",
           "Delay": 10000000000.0,
           "MaxAttempts": 10
-        }
+        },
+        "ForceUpdate": 0
       },
       "Mode": {
         "Replicated": {
@@ -5132,6 +5134,7 @@ image](#create-an-image) section for more details.
         - **Window** – Windows is the time window used to evaluate the restart policy (default value is
           0, which is unbounded).
     - **Placement** – An array of constraints.
+    - **ForceUpdate**: A counter that triggers an update even if no relevant parameters have been changed.
 - **Mode** – Scheduling mode for the service (`replicated` or `global`, defaults to `replicated`).
 - **UpdateConfig** – Specification for the update strategy of the service.
     - **Parallelism** – Maximum number of tasks to be updated in one iteration (0 means unlimited
@@ -5303,7 +5306,8 @@ image](#create-an-image) section for more details.
           "Condition": "any",
           "MaxAttempts": 0
         },
-        "Placement": {}
+        "Placement": {},
+        "ForceUpdate": 0
       },
       "Mode": {
         "Replicated": {
@@ -5374,6 +5378,7 @@ image](#create-an-image) section for more details.
         - **Window** – Windows is the time window used to evaluate the restart policy (default value is
           0, which is unbounded).
     - **Placement** – An array of constraints.
+    - **ForceUpdate**: A counter that triggers an update even if no relevant parameters have been changed.
 - **Mode** – Scheduling mode for the service (`replicated` or `global`, defaults to `replicated`).
 - **UpdateConfig** – Specification for the update strategy of the service.
     - **Parallelism** – Maximum number of tasks to be updated in one iteration (0 means unlimited
diff --git a/docs/reference/commandline/service_update.md b/docs/reference/commandline/service_update.md
index abbd14a5ac888..90b78a45417ce 100644
--- a/docs/reference/commandline/service_update.md
+++ b/docs/reference/commandline/service_update.md
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ Options:
       --endpoint-mode string             Endpoint mode (vip or dnsrr)
       --env-add value                    Add or update environment variables (default [])
       --env-rm value                     Remove an environment variable (default [])
+      --force                            Force update even if no changes require it
       --group-add value                  Add additional user groups to the container (default [])
       --group-rm value                   Remove previously added user groups from the container (default [])
       --help                             Print usage
@@ -67,6 +68,12 @@ Updates a service as described by the specified parameters. This command has to
 The parameters are the same as [`docker service create`](service_create.md). Please look at the description there
 for further information.
 
+Normally, updating a service will only cause the service's tasks to be replaced with new ones if a change to the
+service requires recreating the tasks for it to take effect. For example, only changing the
+`--update-parallelism` setting will not recreate the tasks, because the individual tasks are not affected by this
+setting. However, the `--force` flag will cause the tasks to be recreated anyway. This can be used to perform a
+rolling restart without any changes to the service parameters.
+
 ## Examples
 
 ### Update a service
@@ -75,6 +82,19 @@ for further information.
 $ docker service update --limit-cpu 2 redis
 ```
 
+### Perform a rolling restart with no parameter changes
+
+```bash
+$ docker service update --force --update-parallelism 1 --update-delay 30s redis
+```
+
+In this example, the `--force` flag causes the service's tasks to be shut down
+and replaced with new ones even though none of the other parameters would
+normally cause that to happen. The `--update-parallelism 1` setting ensures
+that only one task is replaced at a time (this is the default behavior). The
+`--update-delay 30s` setting introduces a 30 second delay between tasks, so
+that the rolling restart happens gradually.
+
 ### Adding and removing mounts
 
 Use the `--mount-add` or `--mount-rm` options add or remove a service's bind-mounts