# New to Julia. Reading Julia version numbers

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-to-julia-reading-julia-version-numbers/119835>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [September 24, 2024, 10:36pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-to-julia-reading-julia-version-numbers/119835 "2024-09-24T22:36:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![pogikano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/pogikano/32/212353_2.png) [@pogikano](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/pogikano)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2024, 10:36pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-to-julia-reading-julia-version-numbers/119835/1 "2024-09-24T22:36:36Z")

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I have Julia version 1.10.5.  
I want to use the correct version of the documentation.  
How do I translate that into the documentation version numbering, e.g. v5.10 etc.?

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**Author:** ![Palli](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/palli/32/3380_2.png) [@Palli](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Palli)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2024, 10:41pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-to-julia-reading-julia-version-numbers/119835/2 "2024-09-24T22:41:13Z")

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I’m confused, Julia 1.10.5 doesn’t somehow correspond to v5.10. [Do you have some Julia **package** in mind? There’s neither any correspondence then. E.g. Documenter.jl is currently at 1.7.0. Some packages are at 0.x.y, and _that needs not be any reason to avoid_, though 1.x.y often implies more maturity.]

See docs here:  
[https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/](https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/)

You can choose the latest or whatever version in the bottom left corner.

Maybe helpful to you (not sure I’ve not even watced it):

[![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/0/d/0d97b959970b10995cb806bc86d10f66feb9dc41.jpeg "Writing and Maintaining Exceptional Documentation | JuliaCon 2024 Workshop") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDQ28X3mGSo)

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**Author:** ![pogikano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/pogikano/32/212353_2.png) [@pogikano](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/pogikano)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2024, 10:57pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-to-julia-reading-julia-version-numbers/119835/3 "2024-09-24T22:57:10Z")

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Ah! Yes, of course! That was my Julia version. I am looking at documentation for Agents.jl. Now if I can figure out how to obtain the version number of my installed Agents.jl…

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**Author:** ![giordano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/giordano/32/2166_2.png) [@giordano](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/giordano)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2024, 11:02pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-to-julia-reading-julia-version-numbers/119835/4 "2024-09-24T23:02:27Z")

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In the Julia REPL:

```julia
]status -m Agents

```

(you need to press `]` to enter the [Pkg REPL mode](https://pkgdocs.julialang.org/v1/repl/))

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**Author:** ![Palli](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/palli/32/3380_2.png) [@Palli](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Palli)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2024, 11:04pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-to-julia-reading-julia-version-numbers/119835/5 "2024-09-24T23:04:56Z")

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Press ] for the package prompt, there you can also type in e.g. st -m, or st [-m] [package]

```julia
(@v1.10) pkg> st
Status `~/.julia/environments/v1.10/Project.toml`
⌃ [40eb83ae] AppBundler v0.1.3
  [4c88cf16] Aqua v0.8.7
...

```

Go to [Juliahub.com](http://Juliahub.com), e.g by following a link: AppBundler.jl and you’ll see the latest version is: v0.1.5 so I’m a bit behind, what `^` indicates. I don’t know another way to see the most recent available version. I’m not sure JuliaHub is guaranteed to show latest version, i.e. how often updated, but you can go from there to GitHub to see it, or just try to update to latest.

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**Author:** ![liuyxpp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/liuyxpp/32/9870_2.png) [@liuyxpp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/liuyxpp)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2024, 1:40am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-to-julia-reading-julia-version-numbers/119835/6 "2024-09-25T01:40:21Z")

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> [@Palli](#):
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> I don’t know another way to see the most recent available version.

To see the most recent available version, you can simply do a

```julia
... pkg> status --outdated

```

Or you want to list all outdated dependent packages:

```julia
... pkg> status --outdated -m

```

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**Post date:** [September 25, 2024, 12:45pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-to-julia-reading-julia-version-numbers/119835/7 "2024-09-25T12:45:28Z")

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> [@liuyxpp](#):
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> `pkg> status --outdated`

> …  
> ⌅ [1f15a43c] CxxWrap v0.12.1 (\<v0.16.0): OpenCV, Polymake, QML, Singular

Good to know (and I suppose those are the packages holding back), maybe Julia should show the most recent version by default (plus the version number it’s showing), i.e. what you’re missing out on. Or maybe only of there’s a new major version available?

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**Post date:** [September 25, 2024, 1:28pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-to-julia-reading-julia-version-numbers/119835/8 "2024-09-25T13:28:52Z")

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For me Julia _does_ automatically show outdated packages:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/5/2/523bd0d525431ec3b2c41e349374a61137fa3889.png)

Notice the green up arrow on the left of packages that have newer versions available.