View Version Details

Warning:
As of April 30, 2020, CockroachDB v2.1 is no longer supported. For more details, refer to the Release Support Policy.

To view version details for a specific cockroach binary, run the cockroach version command:

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$ cockroach version
Build Tag:   v2.1.11
Build Time:  2020-01-29 00:00:00
Distribution: CCL
Platform:     darwin amd64
Go Version:   go1.8.3
C Compiler:   4.2.1 Compatible Clang 3.8.0 (tags/RELEASE_380/final)
Build SHA-1:  5b757262d33d814bda1deb2af20161a1f7749df3
Build Type:   release

The cockroach version command outputs the following fields:

Field Description
Build Tag The CockroachDB version.
Build Time The date and time when the binary was built.
Distribution The scope of the binary. If CCL, the binary contains open-source and enterprise functionality covered by the CockroachDB Community License. If OSS, the binary contains only open-source functionality.

To obtain a pure open-source binary, you must build from source using the make buildoss command.
Platform The platform that the binary can run on.
Go Version The version of Go in which the source code is written.
C Compiler The C compiler used to build the binary.
Build SHA-1 The SHA-1 hash of the commit used to build the binary.
Build Type The type of release. If release, release-gnu, or release-musl, the binary is for a production release. If development, the binary is for a testing release.

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