@@ -559,11 +559,12 @@ backported), there is no reason to keep maintaining the `overlay` storage driver
559559
560560** Deprecated in Release: v18.09**
561561** Disabled by default in Release: v23.0**
562+ ** Removed in Release: v25.0**
562563
563- The ` devicemapper ` storage driver is deprecated in favor of ` overlay2 ` , and will
564- be removed in a future release. Users of the ` devicemapper ` storage driver are
565- recommended to migrate to a different storage driver, such as ` overlay2 ` , which
566- is now the default storage driver .
564+ The ` devicemapper ` storage driver is deprecated in favor of ` overlay2 ` , and has
565+ been removed in Docker Engine v25.0. Users of the ` devicemapper ` storage driver
566+ must migrate to a different storage driver, such as ` overlay2 ` , before upgrading
567+ to Docker Engine v25.0 .
567568
568569The ` devicemapper ` storage driver facilitates running Docker on older (3.x) kernels
569570that have no support for other storage drivers (such as overlay2, or btrfs).
@@ -572,24 +573,6 @@ Now that support for `overlay2` is added to all supported distros (as they are
572573either on kernel 4.x, or have support for multiple lowerdirs backported), there
573574is no reason to continue maintenance of the ` devicemapper ` storage driver.
574575
575- #### Disabled by default in v23.0
576-
577- Docker already prevented deprecated storage drivers from being automatically
578- selected on new installations, but continued to use these drivers when upgrading
579- existing installations. Starting with the v23.0 release, the Docker Engine will
580- fail to start if a deprecated storage driver is used (see [ moby #43378 ] ( https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/43378 ) :
581-
582- ``` console
583- failed to start daemon: error initializing graphdriver: prior storage driver
584- devicemapper is deprecated and will be removed in a future release; update the the daemon
585- configuration and explicitly choose this storage driver to continue using it;
586- visit https://docs.docker.com/go/storage-driver/ for more information.
587- ```
588-
589- To continue using the storage driver, update the daemon configuration to use
590- explicitly use the given storage driver. Users are encouraged to migrate to
591- different storage driver.
592-
593576### Use of reserved namespaces in engine labels
594577
595578** Deprecated in Release: v18.06**
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