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I'm curious to see which version of a package I'm using to see if it is out of date. I don't see a package- function that looks applicable.

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  • @DoMiNeLa10, the answer to the other question does indeed answer my question. The question ought to be updated to "How can I find which version of a particular package I am using?". i.e. s/mode/package. – Steven Shaw Dec 9 '18 at 7:00
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As you noticed Emacs itself doesn't provide any convenient command for this purpose. I had the same problem and wrote a little package called pkg-info to address this issue.

Install it from MELPA with M-x package-install RET pkg-info and then type M-x pkg-info-package-version RET magit to see the version of the magit package.

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  • As of Emacs 26.3 (on macOS 10.14), pkg-info-package-version is no longer available. – miguelmorin Oct 23 '19 at 11:03
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    @miguelmorin It never was; pkg-info is a separate package. – user227 Oct 25 '19 at 14:02
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You could use M-x list-packages to view list of available and installed packages with versions. And you could mark packages for update with U, then use x to eXecute the updating. And M-x package-list-packages is an alias for list-packages.

More: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Package-Menu.html

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