[Bug]: v2.0.3 incompatible with Docker Desktop for Mac v29.1.3?

[jnicholls]

Module

Core

Testcontainers version

2.0.3

Using the latest Testcontainers version?

Yes

Host OS

macOS Tahoe 26.2

Host Arch

Arm64

Docker version

Client:
 Version:           29.1.3
 API version:       1.52
 Go version:        go1.25.5
 Git commit:        f52814d
 Built:             Fri Dec 12 14:48:46 2025
 OS/Arch:           darwin/arm64
 Context:           desktop-linux

Server: Docker Desktop 4.55.0 (213807)
 Engine:
  Version:          29.1.3
  API version:      1.52 (minimum version 1.44)
  Go version:       go1.25.5
  Git commit:       fbf3ed2
  Built:            Fri Dec 12 14:50:40 2025
  OS/Arch:          linux/arm64
  Experimental:     true
 containerd:
  Version:          v2.2.0
  GitCommit:        1c4457e00facac03ce1d75f7b6777a7a851e5c41
 runc:
  Version:          1.3.4
  GitCommit:        v1.3.4-0-gd6d73eb8
 docker-init:
  Version:          0.19.0
  GitCommit:        de40ad0

What happened?

I am getting an error with all versions of testcontainer, including the latest release 2.0.3. See the relevant log output. This leads me to believe that it's not compatible with the newest version of Docker v29 running the API version 1.52.

Relevant log output

Could not find a valid Docker environment. Please check configuration. Attempted configurations were:
        UnixSocketClientProviderStrategy: failed with exception BadRequestException (Status 400: {"ID":"","Containers":0,"ContainersRunning":0,"ContainersPaused":0,"ContainersStopped":0,"Images":0,"Driver":"","DriverStatus":null,"Plugins":{"Volume":null,"Network":null,"Authorization":null,"Log":null},"MemoryLimit":false,"SwapLimit":false,"CpuCfsPeriod":false,"CpuCfsQuota":false,"CPUShares":false,"CPUSet":false,"PidsLimit":false,"IPv4Forwarding":false,"Debug":false,"NFd":0,"OomKillDisable":false,"NGoroutines":0,"SystemTime":"","LoggingDriver":"","CgroupDriver":"","NEventsListener":0,"KernelVersion":"","OperatingSystem":"","OSVersion":"","OSType":"","Architecture":"","IndexServerAddress":"","RegistryConfig":null,"NCPU":0,"MemTotal":0,"GenericResources":null,"DockerRootDir":"","HttpProxy":"","HttpsProxy":"","NoProxy":"","Name":"","Labels":["com.docker.desktop.address=unix:///Users/jarrednicholls/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/docker-cli.sock"],"ExperimentalBuild":false,"ServerVersion":"","Runtimes":null,"DefaultRuntime":"","Swarm":{"NodeID":"","NodeAddr":"","LocalNodeState":"","ControlAvailable":false,"Error":"","RemoteManagers":null},"LiveRestoreEnabled":false,"Isolation":"","InitBinary":"","ContainerdCommit":{"ID":""},"RuncCommit":{"ID":""},"InitCommit":{"ID":""},"SecurityOptions":null,"CDISpecDirs":null,"Warnings":null})
        DockerDesktopClientProviderStrategy: failed with exception BadRequestException (Status 400: {"ID":"","Containers":0,"ContainersRunning":0,"ContainersPaused":0,"ContainersStopped":0,"Images":0,"Driver":"","DriverStatus":null,"Plugins":{"Volume":null,"Network":null,"Authorization":null,"Log":null},"MemoryLimit":false,"SwapLimit":false,"CpuCfsPeriod":false,"CpuCfsQuota":false,"CPUShares":false,"CPUSet":false,"PidsLimit":false,"IPv4Forwarding":false,"Debug":false,"NFd":0,"OomKillDisable":false,"NGoroutines":0,"SystemTime":"","LoggingDriver":"","CgroupDriver":"","NEventsListener":0,"KernelVersion":"","OperatingSystem":"","OSVersion":"","OSType":"","Architecture":"","IndexServerAddress":"","RegistryConfig":null,"NCPU":0,"MemTotal":0,"GenericResources":null,"DockerRootDir":"","HttpProxy":"","HttpsProxy":"","NoProxy":"","Name":"","Labels":["com.docker.desktop.address=unix:///Users/jarrednicholls/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/docker-cli.sock"],"ExperimentalBuild":false,"ServerVersion":"","Runtimes":null,"DefaultRuntime":"","Swarm":{"NodeID":"","NodeAddr":"","LocalNodeState":"","ControlAvailable":false,"Error":"","RemoteManagers":null},"LiveRestoreEnabled":false,"Isolation":"","InitBinary":"","ContainerdCommit":{"ID":""},"RuncCommit":{"ID":""},"InitCommit":{"ID":""},"SecurityOptions":null,"CDISpecDirs":null,"Warnings":null})As no valid configuration was found, execution cannot continue.
See https://java.testcontainers.org/on_failure.html for more details.

Additional Information

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[jnicholls]

Following this approach to force the use of 1.44 seems to have done the trick. Is this documented anywhere else clearly? Thanks in advance.

#11235 (comment)

[eddumelendez]

I would suggest to check the dependencies on your project.
Maven: ./mvnw dependency:tree
Gradle: ./gradlew dependencies

I'm using the very same version and all is working fine on Tahoe