How to get list of installed Magento patches

Due to recent changes in Magento release policies, as they are continue to release updates in a patch form, it is getting more vital to keep a track on which patches were installed and which core files were modified in this patches. All patches that were installed successfully are logged into app/etc/applied.patches.list file. You can just open this file in your favourite text editor to find out all installed patches and changed files:

Also you can use a few command-line shortcats for console to cherry-pick some details: To get just the list of patch names installed:

$ grep -F '|' app/etc/applied.patches.list|cut -f 2 -d'|'
 SUPEE-2725 
 SUPEE-5346 
 SUPEE-1533 

To get the list of patch names along with installation date:

$ grep -F '|' app/etc/applied.patches.list|cut -f 2,1 -d'|'
2014-12-01 07:28:34 UTC | SUPEE-2725 
2015-04-21 22:18:17 UTC | SUPEE-5346 
2015-04-22 00:44:54 UTC | SUPEE-1533 

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