Error response from daemon: client version 1.40 is too new. Maximum supported API version is 1.39

Question

After installing docker 19.03.09, any docker command involving the docker daemon is throwing the following error.

Error response from daemon: client version 1.40 is too new. Maximum supported API version is 1.39

Answer 1

This is known issue with docker client 19.03.09. It happens if the daemon version supports only max api-version 1.39. Client is not downgrading the API version to match the server supported version automatically. It should be fixed in 19.03.10.

https://github.com/docker/cli/issues/2533

As a workaround, you can set the docker api version using following environment variable.

export DOCKER_API_VERSION=1.39