This is the 1.24.0 release of Rancher Desktop, an open source desktop application to bring Kubernetes and container management to macOS, Windows, and Linux. ⚠️ Auto-Update: If Rancher Desktop shows an error instead of a Restart Now button, install this release manually from the links below. On 1.23.0 and 1.23.1, the auto-update download fails the moment it starts, so it can't get to 1.24.0. This r…
This is the 1.23.1 release of Rancher Desktop, an open source desktop application to bring Kubernetes and container management to macOS, Windows, and Linux. Installers Windows macOS x86_64 macOS aarch64 Linux install notes Rancher Desktop 2.0 Alpha 1 is available The first alpha of Rancher Desktop 2.0 is out: a ground-up rewrite that runs with or without the GUI and installs alongside Rancher Desk…
This is the 1.23.0 release of Rancher Desktop, an open source desktop application to bring Kubernetes and container management to macOS, Windows, and Linux. Installers Windows macOS x86_64 macOS aarch64 Linux install notes Rancher Desktop 2.0 Alpha 1 is available The first alpha of Rancher Desktop 2.0 is out: a ground-up rewrite that runs with or without the GUI and installs alongside Rancher Desk…
This is the 1.22.3 release of Rancher Desktop, an open source desktop application to bring Kubernetes and container management to macOS, Windows, and Linux. Installers Windows macOS x86_64 macOS aarch64 Linux install notes Release Notes for 1.22.3 Rancher Desktop 1.22.3 is a security-focused patch release. We strongly recommend upgrading. Security Fixes ImportantmacOS and Linux: additional steps r…
This is the 1.22.2 release of Rancher Desktop, an open source desktop application to bring Kubernetes and container management to macOS, Windows, and Linux. Installers Windows macOS x86_64 macOS aarch64 Linux install notes Release Notes for 1.22.2 Rancher Desktop 1.22.2 is a patch release fixing a critical bug on macOS (and maybe on Linux). It contains no further changes beyond the following 2 ite…
This is the 1.22.1 release of Rancher Desktop, an open source desktop application to bring Kubernetes and container management to macOS, Windows, and Linux. ⚠️ This release was broken and has been withdrawn. If you already installed it (on Linux or macOS), please revert back to 1.22.0 and reboot the computer. ⚠️
This is the 1.22.0 release of Rancher Desktop, an open source desktop application to bring Kubernetes and container management to macOS, Windows, and Linux. Installers Windows macOS x86_64 macOS aarch64 Linux install notes Release Notes for 1.22.0 What's New Select moby storage driver Version 1.21.0 switched to the containerd-snapshotter storage driver by default. On Windows, this happened uncondi…
This is the 1.21.0 release of Rancher Desktop, an open source desktop application to bring Kubernetes and container management to macOS, Windows, and Linux. ⚠️ WARNING for Windows users using the Moby container engine ⚠️ This 1.21.0 release is going to change the docker storage driver from the "classic" setting to the containerd-snapshotter (see below). This is supposed to only happen on new insta…
This is the 1.20.1 release of Rancher Desktop, an open source desktop application to bring Kubernetes and container management to macOS, Windows, and Linux. Installers Windows macOS x86_64 macOS aarch64 Linux install notes Release Notes for 1.20.1 This release updates the bundled docker-compose from version 2.39.2 to 2.40.3 to address CVE-2025-62725. There are no other changes in this patch releas…
This is the 1.20.0 release of Rancher Desktop, an open source desktop application to bring Kubernetes and container management to macOS, Windows, and Linux. Installers Windows macOS x86_64 macOS aarch64 Linux install notes New Contributors Thank you to our new contributors: @proski, @lavigneer, and @tylercritchlow! Release Notes for 1.20.0 What's New Container Logs Thanks to @tylercritchlow, the C…
This is the 1.19.3 release of Rancher Desktop, an open source desktop application to bring Kubernetes and container management to macOS, Windows, and Linux. Installers Windows macOS x86_64 macOS aarch64 Linux install notes Release Notes for 1.19.3 AppImage release works again An update to one of our dependencies broke the AppImage releases. This has been fixed. Upgraded bundled utilities The follo…