Checking the version of Redmine in use

Updated on 2022-12-24 • Created on 2009-11-22 • MAEDA Go

You can check the version of Redmine that you currently use in one of the following ways.

Method 1: Check in the administration pages

As a user with administrator rights, open the "Administration" → "Information" page.

In addition to the Redmine version, this page shows the following information.

Whether there are problems with the Redmine installation (directory permissions, pending migrations, and so on)
The type of database
The Redmine runtime environment (Ruby version, installed plugins, and so on)

Method 2: Check on the Redmine server

Run the following command in the Redmine installation directory. It displays the same information as the "Administration" → "Information" page of Redmine.

ruby bin/about

For Redmine 2.6 and earlier, run script/about and not bin/about.

Example of the output:

Environment:
  Redmine version                5.0.4.stable.21997
  Ruby version                   2.5.8-p224 (2020-03-31) [x86_64-darwin19]
  Rails version                  6.1.7
  Environment                    production
  Database adapter               SQLite
  Mailer queue                   ActiveJob::QueueAdapters::AsyncAdapter
  Mailer delivery                smtp
Redmine settings:
  Redmine theme                  Bleuclair
SCM:
  Subversion                     1.14.1
  Mercurial                      6.3.1
  Cvs                            1.12.13
  Git                            2.34.1
  Filesystem
Redmine plugins:
  sample_plugin                  0.0.1

Method 3: Check in the source code

The numbers that represent the version are defined at the beginning of lib/redmine/version.rb. The following figure shows the file for Redmine 5.0.4.