# Check package version

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/check-package-version/30155>\
**Category:** Internals & Design\
**Tags:** package\
**Created:** [October 22, 2019, 6:31am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/check-package-version/30155 "2019-10-22T06:31:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![jheinen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jheinen/32/2787_2.png) [@jheinen](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jheinen)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 6:31am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/check-package-version/30155/1 "2019-10-22T06:31:37Z")

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How can I test, whether a package is on #master?

`Pkg.API.installed()[name]` no longer contains a ‘+’ to indicate this. `Pkg.API.status(name)` only displays (prints) the version information, but doesn’t return anything.

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**Author:** ![00vareladavid](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/00vareladavid/32/23521_2.png) [@00vareladavid](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/00vareladavid)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 12:09am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/check-package-version/30155/2 "2019-10-30T00:09:40Z")

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There is currently no stable API for this. There is an experimental API which should make it into 1.4 (you can find some preliminary docs here: [12. API Reference · Pkg.jl](https://julialang.github.io/Pkg.jl/dev/api/#Pkg.dependencies)). In the meantime, parsing the manifest file directly should work well enough.