View change history

Use workflow history to view and restore previous versions of your workflows.

Understand workflow history

n8n creates a new version when you:

• Save your workflow.
• Restore an old version. n8n saves the latest version before restoring.
• Pull from a Git repository using Source control. Note that n8n saves versions to the instance database, not to Git.

Changes to workflow settings do not create a new version.

View workflow history

To view a workflow's history:

1. Open the workflow.
2. Select Workflow history

. n8n opens a menu showing the saved workflow versions, and a canvas with a preview of the selected version.

Restore or copy previous versions

You can restore a previous workflow version, or make a copy of it:

1. On the version you want to restore or copy, select Options

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1. Choose what you want to do:

• Restore version: replace your current workflow with the selected version.
• Clone to new workflow: create a new workflow based on the selected version.
• Open version in new tab: open a second tab displaying the selected version. Use this to compare versions.
• Download: download the version as JSON.
• Name version: give the version a name and description. Named versions are protected from automatic pruning. Refer to Naming versions for more details. Available on Pro and Enterprise plans.