> curl -X GET --dump - http://localhost:8529/_admin/version?details=true

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8

{
  "server": "arango",
  "version": "1.4.devel"
  "details": {
    "build-date": "May 13 2013 09:07:23",
    "configure": "'./configure' '--enable-maintainer-mode' '--enable-relative' '--enable-all-in-one-icu' '--enable-all-in-one-v8'","icu-version":"49.1.2",
    "libev-version": "4.11",
    "openssl-version": "OpenSSL 1.0.1 14 Mar 2012",
    "repository-version": "heads/devel-0-gdd446b51dd713656d0f3dc50e94e3ea88cd72a86", 
    "server-version": "1.4.devel",
    "v8-version":"3.16.14.1"
  }
}