Determining the octopus release number

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I’m looking for advice on how to determine, from within my .ps1 deployment scripts, the value of the octopus release number.

I thought Octopus might define variable “OctopusReleaseNumber”, but of the 9 predefined variables identified in the wiki, it’s the only one that my deployments seem to miss.
That is, I haven’t seen it in the logs of my deployments, and I get an empty string when asking my .ps1 deployment scripts to write the value of $OctopusReleaseNumber.
My portal is on v0.9.620.4 and my tentacles a mix of v0.9.620.3 and v0.9.620.4

Is there a way to determine, from the .ps1 scripts, the value of the octopus release number?

Thanks.

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Hi Lisa,

You are right, a bug in the last release meant that the OctopusReleaseNumber wasn’t being set. If you need a unique number you can use the OctopusTaskId variable. I’ll try to create a patch release tonight to fix this issue (it will be an Octopus Server change)

Paul

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Hi Paul,

Thanks for the info about the variable. I’ll look for it in future releases.
And many thanks for hosting the support forum - I’ve found it a very helpful community.

Lisa

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Hi Lisa,

Just to let you know, this is now fixed in 1.0 releases of Octopus.

Paul