How to know which version of Symfony I have?

Question

I know that I have downloaded a Symfony2 project and started with but I have updated my vendor several times and I want to know which version of symfony I have

Answer 1

Another way is to look at the source for Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Kernel for where const VERSION is defined. Example on GitHub

Locally this would be located in vendor/symfony/symfony/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/Kernel.php.