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[Wallman]

Hi,

When we are using orbs, we usually just specify the major version (e.g. orb-name@3), to decrease the amount of maintenance to keep these versions up to date. What we are missing right now, is some way to determine which version of an orb that a specific build actually resolved to. This can benefit build failure investigations.

i.e. a way to see what version of an orb a specific build used. Is this possible? It would be great for us.

Best,
Daniel

[wyardley]

Yes, there is. I’m not in any orgs that are using CircleCI / orbs right now, so had to setup a test job to verify this, but one way is to go to the triple dots for a workflow, then click on ‘configuration file’ and toggle over from “source” to “compiled”.

There will be a comment near the top with the version it resolved to

So in my test, I had

version: 2.1

orbs:
  shellcheck: circleci/shellcheck@3

workflows:
  checks:
    jobs:
      - shellcheck/check