Podman 3.4.4 no longer compatible with Docker 26.1.3

[strangiato]

Description

It appears that Docker has updated the minimum API version that is required for clients connecting to the docker-daemon and attempting to use Podman to connect to the Docker Daemon fails with the following error message:

podman pull docker-daemon:hello-world:latest
  Error: initializing source docker-daemon:hello-world:latest: loading image from docker engine: Error response from daemon: {"message":"client version 1.22 is too old. Minimum supported API version is 1.24, please upgrade your client to a newer version"}

The older 3.4.4 Podman version is no longer compatible with the Docker version shipped in ubuntu-24.04 runner image.

Podman should be updated to a newer version.

Additional discussion fo the issue can be found here:

https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/21419

Platforms affected

• [ ] Azure DevOps
• [ ] GitHub Actions - Standard Runners
• [ ] GitHub Actions - Larger Runners

Runner images affected

• [X] Ubuntu 20.04
• [X] Ubuntu 22.04
• [X] Ubuntu 24.04
• [ ] macOS 12
• [ ] macOS 13
• [ ] macOS 13 Arm64
• [ ] macOS 14
• [ ] macOS 14 Arm64
• [ ] Windows Server 2019
• [ ] Windows Server 2022

Image version and build link

Version: 20240708.1.0

Example failed action: https://github.com/strangiato/mlflow-server/actions/runs/9914484994/job/27393652593

Is it regression?

20240514.2.0

Expected behavior

Podman should be able to interact with the docker daemon and successfully pull an image from the local docker instance into the podman instance.

Actual behavior

Podman fails with the following error:

{"message":"client version 1.22 is too old. Minimum supported API version is 1.24, please upgrade your client to a newer version"}

Repro steps

Here is an example action to reproduce the issue:

name: test

on:
  push:
    branches: [ "main" ]
  pull_request:
    branches: [ "main" ]


jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - name: test docker-daemon
        run: |
          echo "Docker Version"
          docker version
          docker pull alpine:latest
          echo
          echo "Podman Version"
          podman version
          podman pull docker-daemon:alpine:latest