conan version

Warning

This feature is experimental and subject to breaking changes. See the Conan stability section for more information.

$ conan version -h
Migration: Successfully updated settings.yml
Migration: Successfully updated cppstd_compat.py
Migration: Successfully updated profile.py
usage: conan version [-h] [-v [V]] [-cc CORE_CONF] [-f FORMAT]

Give information about the Conan client version.

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -v [V]                Level of detail of the output. Valid options from less
                        verbose to more verbose: -vquiet, -verror, -vwarning,
                        -vnotice, -vstatus, -v or -vverbose, -vv or -vdebug,
                        -vvv or -vtrace
  -cc CORE_CONF, --core-conf CORE_CONF
                        Define core configuration, overwriting global.conf
                        values. E.g.: -cc core:non_interactive=True
  -f FORMAT, --format FORMAT
                        Select the output format: json

The conan version command shows information about the system and Python environment, including Conan version, Python version, system platform, architecture, release, CPU, and more:

• version: The Conan version.

• conan_path: The path to the Conan script.

• python: A sub-dictionary containing information about the Python environment, including:

  • version: The version of Python being used.

  • sys_version: The full Python system version.

  • sys_executable: The path to the Python executable.

  • is_frozen: An indicator of whether the Python script is being run as a frozen file (e.g., using py2exe or PyInstaller).

  • architecture: The architecture detected by Python.

• system: A sub-dictionary containing information about the operating system, including:

  • version: The version of the operating system.

  • platform: The platform of the system.

  • system: The name of the operating system.

  • release: The release version of the operating system.

  • cpu: Information about the system’s CPU.

$ conan version
version: 2.0.6
conan_path: /conan/venv/bin/conan
python
  version: 3.10.4
  sys_version: 3.10.4 (main, May 17 2022, 10:53:07) [Clang 13.1.6 (clang-1316.0.21.2.3)]
  sys_executable: /conan/venv/bin/python
  is_frozen: False
  architecture: arm64
system
  version: Darwin Kernel Version 23.4.0: Fri Mar 15 00:12:37 PDT 2024; root:xnu-10063.101.17~1/RELEASE_ARM64_T6031
  platform: macOS-14.4.1-arm64-arm-64bit
  system: Darwin
  release: 23.4.0
  cpu: arm

The conan version --format=json returns a JSON output format in stdout (which can be redirected to a file) with the following structure:

$ conan version --format=json
{
    "version": "2.0.6",
    "conan_path": "/Users/myUser/Documents/GitHub/conan/venv/bin/conan",
    "python": {
        "version": "3.10.4",
        "sys_version": "3.10.4 (main, May 17 2022, 10:53:07) [Clang 13.1.6 (clang-1316.0.21.2.3)]",
        "sys_executable": "/conan/venv/bin/python",
        "is_frozen": false,
        "architecture": "arm64"
    },
    "system": {
        "version": "Darwin Kernel Version 23.4.0: Fri Mar 15 00:12:37 PDT 2024; root:xnu-10063.101.17~1/RELEASE_ARM64_T6031",
        "platform": "macOS-14.4.1-arm64-arm-64bit",
        "system": "Darwin",
        "release": "23.4.0",
        "cpu": "arm"
    }
}