How to get the Bigbluebutton Release Number

[videda]

Is there a way to get the installed bigbluebutton release number?

Normally I use bbb-conf --ceck or look in the /etc/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton-release file. But these are not installed.

For the html5 client I see that there is the TAG environment variable in the html5 container.

In the core container there is a VERSION variable. But this is set to an older version and said to be unused (in the core/Dockerfile):

# this variable is not used, but it triggers
# rebuilding from here on if changed
ENV VERSION v2.2.26

In an other issue I read

There was an BBB update released, immediately building the bbb-docker core image uses these new packages

What is the best way to find the bigbluebutton release number of this packages?

[alangecker]

Which BigBlueButton version it is is a difficult question, since BigBlueButton consists out of a lot of components and the "official BigBlueButton release number" mainly describes a certain state of these components.

With bbb-docker some components like etherpad, freeswitch and kurento are taken directly from their official releases of their maintainers and therefore don't necessarily correlate with the self-built & shipped versions within the ubuntu 16.04 repository.

You can view all versions with the command: ./scripts/print-versions

Maybe the most helpful indication is the html5 version, because the version is derived from the BBB version.

Only invalid case: If there is a BBB Release without changes to html5, then the docker image would not be rebuilt and therefore still owns the previous version number.

bigbluebutton-docker
    commit: 7e60db3 (Merge pull request #67 from alangecker/develop)
    branch: v2.2.x

core
    bbb-apps                 1:2.2.0-50   
    bbb-apps-akka            2.2.0-95     
    bbb-apps-screenshare     1:2.2.0-50   
    bbb-apps-video           1:2.2.0-48   
    bbb-apps-video-broadcast 1:2.2.0-8    
    bbb-fsesl-akka           2.2.0-72     
    bbb-red5                 1:1.0.10-16  
    bbb-transcode-akka       2.2.0-8      
    bbb-web                  1:2.2.0-142  

etherpad
    version: 1.8.6

freeswitch
    build:  1.10.5-release-17-25569c1631~64bit (-release-17-25569c1631 64bit)
    config: v2.2.9-freeswitch

html5
    version: v2.2.28

kurento
    version: 6.14.0

mongodb
    version: 4.2.10

redis
    version: 6.0.9,

webrtc-sfu
    version: 2.4.19
    commit:  2b77265