# Docker-compose: client version is too new

**URL:** <https://forums.docker.com/t/docker-compose-client-version-is-too-new/84804>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [November 23, 2019, 8:29pm UTC](https://forums.docker.com/t/docker-compose-client-version-is-too-new/84804 "2019-11-23T20:29:23Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 23, 2019, 8:29pm UTC](https://forums.docker.com/t/docker-compose-client-version-is-too-new/84804/1 "2019-11-23T20:29:23Z")

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Hi there,  
when executing `DOCKER_API_VERSION=1.35 docker-compose --verbose up` I’m getting:

> -d compose.config.config.find: Using configuration files: ./docker-compose.yml docker.utils.config.find\_config\_file: Trying  
> paths: [‘/home/vivo/.docker/config.json’, ‘/home/vivo/.dockercfg’]  
> docker.utils.config.find\_config\_file: No config file found  
> docker.utils.config.find\_config\_file: Trying paths:  
> [‘/home/vivo/.docker/config.json’, ‘/home/vivo/.dockercfg’]  
> docker.utils.config.find\_config\_file: No config file found  
> urllib3.connectionpool.\_make\_request: [http://localhost](http://localhost):None “GET  
> /v2.25/version HTTP/1.1” 400 84 Traceback (most recent call last):  
> File “site-packages/docker/api/client.py”, line 261, in  
> \_raise\_for\_status File “site-packages/requests/models.py”, line 940, in raise\_for\_status requests.exceptions.HTTPError: 400 Client Error:  
> Bad Request for url: http+docker://localhost/v2.25/version
> 
> During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last): File “bin/docker-compose”, line  
> 6, in File “compose/cli/main.py”, line 71, in main File  
> j

> “compose/cli/main.py”, line 124, in perform\_command File  
> “compose/cli/command.py”, line 42, in project\_from\_options File  
> “compose/cli/command.py”, line 123, in get\_project File  
> “compose/cli/command.py”, line 97, in get\_client File  
> “site-packages/docker/api/daemon.py”, line 181, in version File  
> “site-packages/docker/api/client.py”, line 267, in \_result File  
> “site-packages/docker/api/client.py”, line 263, in \_raise\_for\_status  
> File “site-packages/docker/errors.py”, line 31, in  
> create\_api\_error\_from\_http\_exception docker.errors.APIError: 400  
> Client Error: Bad Request (“client version 2.25 is too new. Maximum  
> supported API version is 1.38”)

My docker version:

> docker-tutorial % docker version Client: Version:  
> 18.06.3-ce API version: 1.27 Go version: go1.10.3 Git commit: d7080c1 Built: Wed Feb 20 02:27:13 2019  
> OS/Arch: linux/amd64 Experimental: false
> 
> Server: Engine: Version: 18.06.3-ce API version:  
> 1.38 (minimum version 1.12) Go version: go1.10.3 Git commit: d7080c1 Built: Wed Feb 20 02:25:38 2019 OS/Arch:  
> linux/amd64 Experimental: false

My docker-compose version:

> docker-tutorial % docker-compose version docker-compose version  
> 1.24.1, build 4667896b docker-py version: 3.7.3 CPython version: 3.6.8 OpenSSL version: OpenSSL 1.1.0j 20 Nov 2018

And my docker-compose.yml:

```
version: '2.1'

services:
    app:
        image: php:7.2-apache
        volumes:
            - .:/var/www/html
        ports:
            - 8000:80

```