specify mac-address per network" requires API version 1.44, but the Docker daemon API version is 1.43

[bogdans92]

Describe the bug

Docker container doesn't get rebuilt after new image gets pulled.

Steps to reproduce

Normal process.

Expected behavior

Re-build & start (if applicable) the docker container

Screenshots

No response

Environment

• Platform: Synology 7.2.2 72806
• Architecture: x64
• Docker Version: 24.0.2 , API version 1.43, Go version go1.20.4
• Synology container manager version 24.0.2.... synology......

Your logs

E-mail logs:
Found new ghcr.io/flmorg/cleanuperr:latest image (9a853d2b581f)
Found new ghcr.io/homarr-labs/homarr:latest image (4fdac016d9dd)
Found new netdata/netdata:latest image (704f9dcab0cb)
Found new lscr.io/linuxserver/nzbget:latest image (9970b2aaf0c6)
Found new grafana/grafana:latest image (5c42a1c2e40b)
Found new lscr.io/linuxserver/kometa:latest image (daa576db83d1)
Found new sctx/overseerr:latest image (01ef727c8412)
Stopping /overseerr (8885dd093747) with SIGTERM
Creating /overseerr
"specify mac-address per network" requires API version 1.44, but the Docker daemon API version is 1.43
Creating /kometa
Stopping /syno-monitoring-grafana (18ad1c2b85d8) with SIGTERM
Creating /syno-monitoring-grafana
"specify mac-address per network" requires API version 1.44, but the Docker daemon API version is 1.43
Creating /nzbget
Creating /netdata
Stopping /homarrv1 (1679feaec354) with SIGTERM
Creating /homarrv1 
"specify mac-address per network" requires API version 1.44, but the Docker daemon API version is 1.43
Stopping /cleanuperr-cleanuperr-1 (07ff09fefddb) with SIGTERM
Creating /cleanuperr-cleanuperr-1
"specify mac-address per network" requires API version 1.44, but the Docker daemon API version is 1.43
Removing image aa086f9572b7
Removing image 7599eacf52a5
Removing image b949590e0506

Additional context

Attached also the debug in csv format as this is the only way it let me export.

I checked a bit the debug logs but nothing stands out, i think its the damn synology again.....

Thanks again for all the help in keeping this piece of software alive Jan !

Please let me know if i can provide more details

watchtower_debug.csv

[beatkind]

@bogdans92 by "built" you mean re-created, right?

---

Side note:

"specify mac-address per network" requires API version 1.44, but the Docker daemon API version is 1.43

Can be fixed with the following argument set to 1.43:

Argument: --api-version, -a
Environment Variable: DOCKER_API_VERSION
Type: String
Default: "1.44"

[bogdans92]

Hello, yes, by built i ment once it was upgraded the docker container doesn't get re-created.

Unfortunately i already have the environment variable set, if i don't have it it goes into a crashing loop.

This is the compose file that i use:

Docker compose file:
version: "3"
services:
watchtower:
container_name: watchtower
restart: unless-stopped
image: beatkind/watchtower:latest
environment:
WATCHTOWER_NOTIFICATIONS: "email"
WATCHTOWER_NOTIFICATION_EMAIL_FROM:
WATCHTOWER_NOTIFICATION_EMAIL_TO:
WATCHTOWER_NOTIFICATION_EMAIL_SERVER:
WATCHTOWER_NOTIFICATION_EMAIL_SERVER_PORT:
WATCHTOWER_NOTIFICATION_EMAIL_SERVER_USER:
WATCHTOWER_NOTIFICATION_EMAIL_SERVER_PASSWORD:
# WATCHTOWER_LABEL_ENABLE: "true"
# every day at 6 am
#WATCHTOWER_SCHEDULE: 0 0 6 * * *
# testing
# WATCHTOWER_SCHEDULE: "*/6 * * * *"
# every monday at 6 am
WATCHTOWER_SCHEDULE: 0 0 6 * * 1
TZ: 'Europe/Bucharest'
WATCHTOWER_CLEANUP: "true"
DOCKER_API_VERSION: "1.43"
WATCHTOWER_ROLLING_RESTART: "true"
WATCHTOWER_INCLUDE_STOPPED: "true"
WATCHTOWER_DEBUG: "true"
# DOCKER_HOST: "true"
volumes:
- /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock

Any other suggestions by chance?

[DaFlowah]

Hi there,

I've got the very same issue yesterday when updates have been applied.
I had to recreate the containers starting from the compose file.
This is my stack:

version: "2"
services:
  watchtower:
    image: beatkind/watchtower
    container_name: watchtower
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
        - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
        - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
    environment:
        - WATCHTOWER_NOTIFICATIONS=email
        - WATCHTOWER_NOTIFICATION_EMAIL_FROM=***********
        - WATCHTOWER_NOTIFICATION_EMAIL_TO==***********
        - WATCHTOWER_NOTIFICATION_EMAIL_SERVER==***********
        - WATCHTOWER_NOTIFICATION_EMAIL_SERVER_USER==***********
        - WATCHTOWER_NOTIFICATION_EMAIL_SERVER_PASSWORD==***********
        - WATCHTOWER_NOTIFICATION_EMAIL_SERVER_PORT=*****
        - WATCHTOWER_SCHEDULE=* 30 20 * * SUN
        - WATCHTOWER_CLEANUP=true
        - WATCHTOWER_TIMEOUT=30s
        - WATCHTOWER_NOTIFICATIONS_LEVEL=info
        - WATCHTOWER_NO_STARTUP_MESSAGE=true
        - TZ=Europe/Paris
        - DOCKER_API_VERSION=1.43
    networks:
        default:

networks:
    default:
        external: 
            name: rete

Unfortunately, I don't have debug logs.
I temporarily reverted to containrrr image.

Email received:

Found new portainer/portainer-ce:latest image (fab249e1b82c)
Found new [ghcr.io/gethomepage/homepage:latest](http://ghcr.io/gethomepage/homepage:latest) image (bc3a1d983aab)
Found new [lscr.io/linuxserver/tautulli:latest](http://lscr.io/linuxserver/tautulli:latest) image (7db9216bdc18)
Found new linuxserver/swag:latest image (d9301e5f31bf)
Found new [lscr.io/linuxserver/syncthing:latest](http://lscr.io/linuxserver/syncthing:latest) image (1c4639fee3f2)
Found new vabene1111/recipes:latest image (e030feb15d0b)
Found new [lscr.io/linuxserver/plex:latest](http://lscr.io/linuxserver/plex:latest) image (a477cfc188b6)
Found new yobasystems/alpine-mariadb:latest image (d791a3efd316)
Stopping /fireflyiiidb (8aecb4b97b90) with SIGTERM
Stopping /plex (fd7dbfb6b19e) with SIGTERM
Stopping /recipes-app (1a70f097624a) with SIGTERM
Stopping /syncthing (ae7c91834a65) with SIGTERM
Stopping /nginx-swag (9b1ac4214b34) with SIGTERM
Stopping /tautulli (d32be2315381) with SIGTERM
Stopping /homepage (9fc7fb436e48) with SIGTERM
Stopping /portainer (e43b4f381631) with SIGTERM
Creating /portainer
"specify mac-address per network" requires API version 1.44, but the Docker daemon API version is 1.43
Creating /homepage
"specify mac-address per network" requires API version 1.44, but the Docker daemon API version is 1.43
Creating /tautulli
"specify mac-address per network" requires API version 1.44, but the Docker daemon API version is 1.43
Creating /nginx-swag
"specify mac-address per network" requires API version 1.44, but the Docker daemon API version is 1.43
Creating /syncthing
Creating /recipes-app
"specify mac-address per network" requires API version 1.44, but the Docker daemon API version is 1.43
Creating /plex
"specify mac-address per network" requires API version 1.44, but the Docker daemon API version is 1.43
Creating /fireflyiiidb
"specify mac-address per network" requires API version 1.44, but the Docker daemon API version is 1.43
Removing image 77737b3b8672

Somehow, only syncthing survived 🤣

• Model: Synology DS918+
• OS: DSM 7.2.2 72806
• Architecture: x64
• Docker Version: 24.0.2 , API version 1.43, Go version go1.20.4 (two years old version)
• Synology's Container Manager version: 24.0.2-1535

[PvaI]

Don't do this:

Can be fixed with the following argument set to 1.43:

Argument: --api-version, -a
Environment Variable: DOCKER_API_VERSION
Type: String
Default: "1.44"

Please remove this comment, as this causes watchtower to delete a container when a new image is available, but it's unable to deploy the new image to a new container as it still tries to use 'specify max-address per network' which fails. Leaving you with a broken configuration.
It deleted 8 containers on my servers.

[PaPaTheGMan]

So I have a similar issue, but instead of Watchtower complaining about the version being old, it complains that it's too new.

"2025-04-09T14:35:46-04:00",
"level": "error",
"msg": "Error response from daemon: client version 1.44 is too new. Maximum supported API version is 1.43"

Should I open a new issue or will this comment/reply be enough?

[fama-lama]

up. same experience.

[24mu13]

May I ask which is the latest 1.43 supported version for our poor Synology users? I tried 2.1.2 but I get still the following warning:

WARN[0000] The DOCKER_API_VERSION environment variable is set to a version lower than 1.44. This may cause unexpected behavior while recreating docker containers.