How can I check the version of GitLab?

For omnibus versions:

sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:env:info

Example:

System information
System:     Ubuntu 12.04
Current User:   git
Using RVM:  no
Ruby Version:   2.1.7p400
Gem Version:    2.2.5
Bundler Version:1.10.6
Rake Version:   10.4.2
Sidekiq Version:3.3.0

GitLab information
Version:    8.2.2
Revision:   08fae2f
Directory:  /opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gitlab-rails
DB Adapter: postgresql
URL:        https://your.hostname
HTTP Clone URL: https://your.hostname/some-group/some-project.git
SSH Clone URL:  [email protected]:some-group/some-project.git
Using LDAP: yes
Using Omniauth: no

GitLab Shell
Version:    2.6.8
Repositories:   /var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repositories
Hooks:      /opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gitlab-shell/hooks/
Git:        /opt/gitlab/embedded/bin/git

You can access the version through a URL, the web GUI, and the REST API.

Via a URL

An HTML page displaying the version can be displayed in a browser at https://your-gitlab-url/help. The version is displayed only if you are signed in.

Via a menu in the web GUI

If you do not care to type this URL, you can also access the same HTML page from a menu in the GitLab web GUI:

In GitLab 11 and later

1. Log in to GitLab
2. Click on the drop down menu in the upper right. Select Help.
3. The GitLab version appears at the top of the page

In earlier versions, like GitLab 9

1. Log in to GitLab
2. Click on the drop down menu in the upper left. Select Help.
3. And then the version appears at the top of the page

Via the REST API

Log in as any user, select the user icon in the upper right of the screen. Select Settings → Access Tokens. Create a personal access token and copy it to your clipboard.

In a Linux shell, use curl to access the GitLab version:

curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: personal-access-token" your-gitlab-url/api/v4/version

If you are using a self-hosted version of GitLab then you may consider running this command.

grep gitlab /opt/gitlab/version-manifest.txt

You have two choices (after having logged in).

1. Use the API URL https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/version (you can use it from the command line with a private token), it returns {"version":"10.1.0","revision":"5a695c4"}
2. Use a HELP URL in the browser, https://gitlab.example.com/help, and you will see a version of GitLab, that is, GitLab Community Edition 10.1.0 5a695c4

You can view GitLab's version at: https://your.domain.name/help

Or via terminal: gitlab-rake gitlab:env:info

Use:

cd /opt/gitlab

cat version-manifest.txt

Example:

gitlab-ctl         6.8.2-omnibus
gitlab-rails       v6.8.2

The current GitLab version is 6.8.2.

If using the GitLab Docker image:

# From the host, not inside the container
sudo cat /srv/gitlab/data/gitlab-rails/VERSION

Example output:

12.1.3

The same file could be found inside the running container under /var/opt/gitlab/gitlab-rails/VERSION.

Get information about GitLab and the system it runs on :

bundle exec rake gitlab:env:info RAILS_ENV=production

Example output of gitlab:env:info

System information
System:     Arch Linux
Current User:   git
Using RVM:  yes
RVM Version:    1.20.3
Ruby Version:   2.0.0p0
Gem Version:    2.0.0
Bundler Version:1.3.5
Rake Version:   10.0.4

GitLab information
Version:    5.2.0.pre
Revision:   4353bab
Directory:  /home/git/gitlab
DB Adapter: mysql2
URL:        http://gitlab.arch
HTTP Clone URL: http://gitlab.arch/some-project.git
SSH Clone URL:  [email protected]:some-project.git
Using LDAP: no
Using Omniauth: no

GitLab Shell
Version:    1.4.0
Repositories:   /home/git/repositories/
Hooks:      /home/git/gitlab-shell/hooks/
Git:        /usr/bin/git

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Instead of http://domain-name/help, you can also check your GitLab version name in browser by logging as Admin

• Go to http://domain-name
• Log in to GitLab as Admin (Root)
• Go to Admin Area
• On the right corner, below Groups tab, you can find Components tab

There you can find not only GitLab version, but also different components, like GitLab Shell, GitLab workhorse, GitLab API, etc. Version numbers:

You will also find the suggestions to update the versions there.

cat /opt/gitlab/version-manifest.txt |grep gitlab-ce|awk '{print $2}'

The easiest way is to paste the following command:

cat /opt/gitlab/version-manifest.txt | head -n 1

and there you get the version installed. :)

It can be retrieved using REST, see Version API :

curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: 9koXpg98eAheJpvBs5tK" https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/version

For authentication see Personal access tokens documentation.

You can use the package manager to query the installed version of GitLab CI. if it happens to be debian or ubuntu, like this:

dpkg -l | grep gitlab-ce | tr -s [:space:] | cut -d" " -f3

It should work similarly with other distributions, assuming you used a package manager to install it.

This is a command line to know all the data of your GitLab install:

gitlab-rake gitlab:env:info

And this is the command line to know there are if new GitLab versions, for you can update GitLab

yum --showduplicates list gitlab-ce

And once you know your current version and the latest GitLab update, you can update it with the following line command:

yum install gitlab-ce-15.2.2-ce.0.el7

I have version 12.2.0-ee, and I tried the URL via (https://yourgitlab/help), but I have not got this information.

On the other hand, I got this with gitlab-rake with success into the command line:

sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:env:info

Output:

...
GitLab information
Version:        12.2.0-ee
...

The following information is available from within the CI pipeline (GitLab >= 11.4):

If you are an admin and if you want to see the GitLab version (and more you didn't know about), click on the wrench/admin menu icon and under Components you can see a lot, especially if you are using Omnibus.

To check the version of GitLab on CentOS:

rpm -qa | grep gitlab-ce