cockroach version

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

$ cockroach version

Build Tag:        v25.2.15
Build Time:       2026-03-09 00:00:00
Distribution:     CCL
Platform:         darwin amd64 (x86_64-apple-darwin19)
Go Version:       go1.15.11
C Compiler:       Clang 10.0.0
Build Commit ID:  ac916850f403f083ea62e2b0dfdfecbbeaaa4d05
Build Type:       release

Response

The cockroach version command outputs the following fields:

Field	Description
Build Tag	The CockroachDB version. To return just the build tag, use cockroach version --build-tag.
Build Time	The date and time when the binary was built.
Distribution	The scope of the binary. If CCL, the binary contains functionality covered by both the CockroachDB Community License (CCL) and the Business Source License (BSL). If OSS, the binary contains only functionality covered by the Apache 2.0 license. The v19.2 release converts to Apache 2.0 as of Oct 1, 2022, at which time you can use the make buildoss command to build a pure open-source binary. For more details about licensing, see the .
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 Commit ID	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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