How to get the intellij version?

Question

I would like to automatize plugins installation from command line,chef,puppet,ansible ...

So for this I need to grab plugins archive from https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/ .

But to get a plugins archive I need to know what is the intellij version link to a given build

Example with scala-plugins:

archive are in https://plugins.jetbrains.com/files/1347/30658/ and for the intellij build number 163.4396—164 it's the version 2016.3.4

So the url to download it is: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/files/1347/30658/scala-intellij-bin-2016.3.4.zip

The problem:

I can get build number by reading content of $INTELLIJ_HOME/build.txt

But how to know to which version this build number map ?

Thanks for your help

Answer 1

In the top bar where File, Edit, View... Are written, go to the Help section. Click on Help section and in the drop-down click on About. That will show you the information regarding the Intellij Version you are using.

Answer 2

Under the Help menu you can click About. Then you will see the IntelliJ version in the popup screen.

Answer 3

For version 2020.3 on macOS: You can find the 'About Intellij IDEA' at 'Intellij IDEA' tab drop-down which would describe the whole version like 2020.3.2 as for me.