Why does my Ubuntu Docker installation use Core 2024.10.3?

Installation
1

I Have just tried updating the container using this…

docker run -d --name homeassistant --privileged --restart=unless-stopped -e TZ=Europe/London -v /home/gerald/hass:/config --network=host ghcr.io/home-assistant/home-assistant:stable

Having used this first…
sudo docker pull homeassistant/home-assistant:stable

However, I end up with this version:

  1. Core 2024.10.3
  2. Frontend 20241002.3

Am I being particularly thick? My last version was a 2025 flavour but that was using a specific version instead of “stable”.

I used to run HA on a Rpi under a standard operating system and I don’t think I had any similar hassle.

As ever, any help would be appreciated as I would like to use some of the new features and integrations.

2

You are pulling homeassistant/home-assistant (from dockerhub) but running ghcr.io/home-assistant/home-assistant (from github). Check docker images and try docker pull ghcr.io/home-assistant/home-assistant:stable.
I’d recommend you use docker compose. And if not follow the update docs here.

3

Thank you for the quick response! An example of a little knowledge being a dangerous thing.

However, I now get this error (and using sudo)…

docker pull ghcr.io/homeassistant/home-assistant:stable Error response from daemon: Head "https://ghcr.io/v2/homeassistant/home-assistant/manifests/stable": denied

4

I used compose as suggested and it seems to work but brings up the old version. Perhaps I need to tidy these images…

IMAGE                           ID             DISK USAGE   CONTENT SIZE   EXTRA
econet-mqtt-publisher:latest    3983a2230ae5        141MB             0B    U
ghcr.io/home-assistant/home-assistant:2024.6.3
                                2b4c9de733f1        1.6GB             0B
ghcr.io/home-assistant/home-assistant:2025.6.0
                                34b1b3bc0da6       1.98GB             0B
ghcr.io/home-assistant/home-assistant:latest
                                b561adc8d8b1        1.5GB             0B
ghcr.io/home-assistant/home-assistant:stable
                                27bda046a9e6       1.79GB             0B
hello-world:latest              feb5d9fea6a5       13.3kB             0B    U
homeassistant/home-assistant:2025.6.0
                                34b1b3bc0da6       1.98GB             0B
homeassistant/home-assistant:latest
                                2b4c9de733f1        1.6GB             0B
homeassistant/home-assistant:stable
                                0fafae2139c2       2.34GB             0B
5

I feel a right bonehead! I have had a good look at the compose docs and I should have used it years ago! I put the mess down to not having much of a clue about how Docker works too.

6

homeassistant should be home-assistant just as I wrote it.

7

Does compose automatically performs the pull?

8

It pulls if the image doesn’t exist but it doesnt update the image by default. Something like this would probably do that (might need --force-recreate too)

docker compose up --pull always --detach

See docs. I’d generally stick to manual pulling.

9

None are so blind as those who will not see!

Thank you very much. I shall stick to that from now on. UI is completely different.