Specify Kiaban's plugin version for Elastic 5.0.0

Elastic Stack Kibana
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I am developing a plugin for Kibana 5.0.0. Where can I specify the plugin version for the sake of version managing?

Previously, the plugin version was specified in the plugin's package.json in version (i.e. version: 0.1.0). Tried to do so in Kibana 5.0.0, results in "Plugin installation was unsuccessful due to error "Incorrect Kibana version in plugin [arc_fieldformatters]. Expected [5.0.0]; found [0.1.0]".

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I think the problem is that Kibana is checking (and requiring) that plugins match Kibana version. So try setting your plugin version to 5.0.0 and see if that works.

Regards,
Lee

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You must specify an exact Kibana version number that you've verified your plugin to work against, and you can do that in one of two ways:

  1. In the version field of your package.json, which essentially means one version of your plugin per version of Kibana (i.e. version: '5.0.0'). This method may be removed in the future, but that's unclear at the moment.
  2. In the a kibana.version block in your package.json (i.e. kibana: { version: '5.0.0' }, which allows you to have multiple versions of your own plugin that are compatible with a given Kibana version. This is is probably what you want if you're actively developing a plugin as you'll likely be publishing new versions frequently.

Edit: This was all added in this PR: https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/8222

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The kibana.version is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!