Where can i download an older version of Docker Desktop for Mac?

[toontjem]

Anybody knows where i can download the latest pre-Docker Engine 25 version of Docker Desktop for Mac? Most probably i need version 4.26.1

Thanks,

Ton.

[rimelek (Ákos Takács)]

The same place where you download the latest. There is a link at almost the top of the page

For checksums, see Release notes.

There you can find older versions as well.

[boardtc]

Nothing on that page before 4.29

[rimelek (Ákos Takács)]

True. When I wrote this post I only wanted to say that the older versions are listed there, but I didn’t know that the old links were removed. Without anyone telling me it was the case, the conversation stopped there. Later in May I realised the old links were removed and wrote this

Where can I download Docker version 4.20?

The whole documentation is on GitHub: The release notes are here: https://github.com/docker/docs/blob/main/content/desktop/release-notes.md You can list the history of the changes and go back to a point when that version still had a link. For example here: https://github.com/docker/docs/blob/71c6d2d88a0086f36e21705fdf35aa08322d8867/content/desktop/release-notes.md Then you will find something like this: {{< release-date date="2023-06-05" >}} {{< desktop-install all=true version="4.20.1"…

Later someone asked me about it again and I saw that the documentation’s source code changed a little bit so I quote what I shared in a private conversation to update the steps. Note that the suer needed 4.27.1:

Starting from the latest version I also found the release notes were moved under “content/manuals/desktop”, but only after 4.27.1, so when the commit history showed that the file was renamed, I asked GitHub to load the previous versions and scrolled until I saw 4.27.1 in the commit message. I found this:

https://github.com/docker/docs/blob/51b3996c903f474aa68b32cfc74370e1cd2c982a/content/desktop/release-notes.md?plain=1#L31

Now you go to the current release page, copy the link address of the architecture and platform you need, and replace the number in the link with the build path you see on GitHub.
For example this is probably v4.27.1 for macOS with the apple silicon chip:

https://desktop.docker.com/mac/main/arm64/135262/Docker.dmg

Now you can also use this link and change the architecture to amd64 if you need that one or replace “Docker.img” with “Docker Desktop Installer.exe”
Or just copy the link of what you actually need, except an older version, and replace only the build number which is
135262

So you need to follow the same steps to download an older version. Using an old version is not recommended unless you want to test something with an older version or the new version doesn’t work. I’m sure you know that, but I have to mention it so no future visitors think I recommend using Docker Desktop that was removed from the official documentation.

[hiatusland]

so I see in this link

https://gist.github.com/kupietools/2f9f085228d765da579f0f0702bec33c

that 4.22.1 is available, but the link they give doesn’t have a number set in it like the others and just gives you the latest version (currently 4.34 or something like that). does anyone know where I can find the specific link for downloading 4.22.1? how do I find those numbers?

[meyay (Metin Y.)]

I do remember seeing the ids in the html code earlier, even for some (but not all) releases that had no download available. Now the ids are only available in the download urls. So no download url == no way to know the ids.

Seems people are probing with urls that use a placeholder for ids, and cust increment them, like the last comment does in the link you shared.

You can try if this is 4.22.1 download.

Note: I didn’t probe for the id, i saw it in one of the comments.

Though, as @rimlek already pointed out:

Using an old version is not recommended unless you want to test something with an older version or the new version doesn’t work.

[hiatusland]

yeah, I saw that bit. unfortunately, the newer versions don’t work with our proxy here at work so we have to use the older versions. I personally am using it to do training for docker, but it’s what our developers have verified also. I spent two days trying to get the L&G versions to work and finally it worked with 4.21.1 (though our docs said 4.22.1 so I was looking for that one for Windows).

[meyay (Metin Y.)]

The Windows link for 4.22.1

May I suggest to check https://github.com/docker/for-win/issues if an open issue for the proxy exist, and if not register an issue proving the details about how your companies reverse proxy works, and with which version it works, and with which version it stopped working?r

[rimelek (Ákos Takács)]

I described in my previous post how old versions can be found. Any version basically. Have you try that method? I can’t talk about someone else’s solution list of links

But it looks like @meyay found a link for you. If you need a different version later, you can find it as I described.