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title: "ReleaseStamp"
description: "which release a running binary is: the platform's semantic version, the commit it was built from with its time, whether the build had changes beyond the commit, and the contract it carries; every process reports it in its handshake, its --version, its first log line and the client name on every event it writes, so…"
section: concepts
address: /concepts/releasestamp
contract: 0476e35e6e275db5
---

# ReleaseStamp

which release a running binary is: the platform's semantic version, the commit it was built from with its time, whether the build had changes beyond the commit, and the contract it carries; every process reports it in its handshake, its --version, its first log line and the client name on every event it writes, so…

[figure: ReleaseStamp is a value at none scope. The drawing shows its fields and the objects that they point at.]

| property | value |
|---|---|
| kind | value |
| scope | none |
| key | none |
| store | none |
| family | harness |



## Fields


| field | type | required | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| `version` | `text` | yes | the platform's semantic version, one number for every crate and every packaged surface, from the workspace's manifest |
| `commit` | `text` | yes | the commit's hash |
| `commit_time` | `count` | yes | the commit's time as seconds since 1970; the order between releases |
| `dirty` | `bool` | yes | true when the build had changes beyond the commit |
| `contract` | `hash` | yes | the register hash of the contract the binary carries |



## Routes that use it
No route takes or returns ReleaseStamp directly. The record holds it, and the objects that point at it reach it.