1--- 2stage: Ecosystem 3group: Integrations 4info: To determine the technical writer assigned to the Stage/Group associated with this page, see https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/ux/technical-writing/#assignments 5--- 6 7# Version API **(FREE)** 8 9Retrieve version information for this GitLab instance. Responds `200 OK` for 10authenticated users. 11 12```plaintext 13GET /version 14``` 15 16```shell 17curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/version" 18``` 19 20Example response: 21 22```json 23{ 24 "version": "8.13.0-pre", 25 "revision": "4e963fe" 26} 27``` 28