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# View change history
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**Feature availability**
* Full workflow history is available on Enterprise Cloud and Enterprise Self-hosted.
* Versions from the last five days are available for Cloud Pro users.
* Versions from the last 24 hours are available for all users.
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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](/administer/use-source-control-and-environments.md). Note that n8n saves versions to the instance database, not to Git.
Changes to workflow settings do not create a new version.
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**Workflow history and execution history**
Don't confuse workflow history with the [Workflow-level executions list](/build/understand-workflows/understand-executions/view-executions-for-a-single-workflow.md).
Executions are workflow runs. With the executions list, you can see previous runs of the current version of the workflow. You can copy previous executions into the editor to [Debug and re-run past executions](/build/understand-workflows/understand-executions/debug-executions.md) in your current workflow.
Workflow history is previous versions of the workflow: for example, a version with a different node, or different parameters set.
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## 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** 
.
2. 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](/build/understand-workflows/save-and-publish-workflows.md#naming-versions) for more details. Available on Pro and Enterprise plans.
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