# Rancher Desktop v1.24.0 — Rancher Desktop 1.24 - Product: Rancher Desktop (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/rancher-desktop) - Vendor: SUSE - Date: 2026-07-29 - Version: v1.24.0 - Original notes: https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop/releases/tag/v1.24.0 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/rancher-desktop/releases/v1.24.0 - Labels: Platforms: Desktop What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog. Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'. --- - **added** — Add support for eight additional languages: Chinese (Simplified), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazilian), and Spanish in the Preferences interface - **added** — Display recent blog posts section on the General page with post titles, dates, opening paragraphs, and read more links - **fixed** — Fix auto-updater that failed to download updates in versions 1.23.0 and 1.23.1 - **fixed** — Fix factory reset on macOS leaving behind a downloaded update that would be installed on next launch - **fixed** — Fix virtual machines created by Rancher Desktop 1.13 or earlier failing to start after upgrade to 1.23 - **fixed** — Fix Container Logs and Shell terminals collapsing to a single row when changing zoom level - **fixed** — Fix ddClient.docker.listContainers() dropping the leading slash from container names returned by the Docker Engine API - **fixed** — Fix Wasm containers failing to create under Kubernetes with containerd 2.1 and later - **fixed** — Fix several nerdctl options on Windows not translating host paths, including builder build --output, --secret, container exec --env-file, image decrypt --key, and image pull --cosign-key - **fixed** — Fix WSL distribution check in Diagnostics reporting errors due to insufficient environment when running wsl.exe 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 release fixes the updater, so from 1.24.0 onwards auto-updates install the way they should.
##### Installers * [Windows](https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop/releases/download/v1.24.0/Rancher.Desktop.Setup.1.24.0.msi) * [macOS x86_64](https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop/releases/download/v1.24.0/Rancher.Desktop-1.24.0.x86_64.dmg) * [macOS aarch64](https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop/releases/download/v1.24.0/Rancher.Desktop-1.24.0.aarch64.dmg) * [Linux install notes](https://docs.rancherdesktop.io/1.24/getting-started/installation#linux) ##### New Contributors Thank you to our new contributor: @voidmatcha! ##### Release Notes for 1.24.0 ###### What's New ###### The interface speaks eight more languages Pick your language under Preferences > Application > General. Along with English, you can choose Chinese (Simplified), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazilian) and Spanish. The feature is experimental and English is still the default. AI tools produced all eight translations for this first release. We've run the app in several of them, but we haven't checked every string, so expect some awkward wording as English remains the canonical text and a handful of strings still fall back to it. Feedback from native speakers would be welcome. If something reads wrong, please open an issue. The translations cover the main application window and the Preferences dialog. The Cluster Dashboard remains English only. Numbers, dates and times are ignored; dates and times follow your operating system's language instead and relative times such as "3 minutes ago" on the Diagnostics page continue to be in English. ([#10688](https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop/issues/10688)) ###### Recent blog posts on the General page The General page now shows a Recent blog posts section. Each entry shows the post's title, date, opening paragraph and a _Read more_ link. Making room for that meant dropping three things you can already find elsewhere: 1. The status bar shows the version and the network status 2. Preferences has the telemetry checkbox 3. The auto-update checkbox moved up beside the heading ###### Bug Fixes ###### Auto-update never downloaded anything on 1.23.0 and 1.23.1 The auto-updater failed in versions 1.23.0 and 1.23.1 because the download runs in the updater you already have installed (see note above). ([#10614](https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop/pull/10614)) ###### macOS: factory reset left a downloaded update behind `rdctl factory-reset` left a downloaded update in place, so the next launch installed it anyway, which undid the reset you just performed. ([#10658](https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop/issues/10658)) ###### VMs created by Rancher Desktop 1.13 or earlier failed to start A virtual machine created by Rancher Desktop 1.13 or earlier refused to start after an upgrade to 1.23. Those VMs boot again with their data intact. ([#10610](https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop/issues/10610)) ###### Container Logs and Shell terminals collapsed when zoomed Changing the zoom level in a container's Logs or Shell tab shrank the terminal until only a single row remained and it stayed that way. The terminal now keeps its full height across zoom levels. ([#10543](https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop/issues/1 _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop/releases/tag/v1.24.0]_