How to confirm what version I'm on within OS application?

Hi, I have never heard about "there's the possibility that our environment version is different than what shows there if the versions are not kept in sync by our IT team". Can you elaborate? Happy to learn something new every day 🙂

My understanding so far has been that your versions need to be the same (i.e. the OS version you are using and the one you are accessing). Otherwise, you get an error message. So if there is something not in sync, I would expect that to happen.

In addition to the above ways to check your version, you can also check the version of your servers under System >> [select a server] >> Configuration >> [scroll to the bottom] 

This will also show you your app DB version as well as the framework DB version on top of the actual XF version you are using.