diff --git a/app/api/connector/capabilities/route.ts b/app/api/connector/capabilities/route.ts
index 87de75fb9..4ff6fd1a1 100644
--- a/app/api/connector/capabilities/route.ts
+++ b/app/api/connector/capabilities/route.ts
@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ import { TARGET_NAMES } from '@/lib/connector/registry';
  * here, and the answer is narrower than the login page it sits next to. It
  * says nothing about accounts, domains or the mail server - only the product,
  * its version, the branded app name, and the target names, which are a
- * compile-time constant.
+ * compile-time constant. The version follows loginShowVersion, like the login
+ * page (#896); the connector only needs the target names to warn.
  *
  * `appName` can be a customer's own branding, so the whole endpoint is gated
  * on `connectorEnabled` for deployments that would rather disclose nothing.
@@ -36,7 +37,9 @@ export async function GET() {
       product: 'bulwark-webmail',
       appName:
         configManager.get<string>('appName', '') || process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_APP_NAME || 'Bulwark',
-      version: process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_APP_VERSION || null,
+      version: configManager.get<boolean>('loginShowVersion', true)
+        ? process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_APP_VERSION || null
+        : null,
       connectorPath: '/connector',
       targets: TARGET_NAMES,
     },
diff --git a/lib/__tests__/instance-details-gates.test.ts b/lib/__tests__/instance-details-gates.test.ts
index d40383c2d..85b3b96ac 100644
--- a/lib/__tests__/instance-details-gates.test.ts
+++ b/lib/__tests__/instance-details-gates.test.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 // @vitest-environment node
-import { beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest';
+import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest';
 import { NextRequest } from 'next/server';
 
 // Endpoints answering anyone used to hand out what fingerprints an instance:
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ import { GET as health } from '@/app/api/health/route';
 import { GET as updateStatus } from '@/app/api/system/update-status/route';
 import { GET as plugins } from '@/app/api/plugins/route';
 import { GET as policy } from '@/app/api/admin/policy/route';
+import { GET as connectorCapabilities } from '@/app/api/connector/capabilities/route';
 
 const req = (path: string) => new NextRequest(`https://mail.example${path}`);
 
@@ -64,6 +65,10 @@ beforeEach(() => {
   config.values = {};
 });
 
+afterEach(() => {
+  vi.unstubAllEnvs();
+});
+
 describe('endpoints for visitors who are not signed in', () => {
   it('health answers the liveness probe but no diagnostics', async () => {
     const body = await (await health(req('/api/health?detailed=true'))).json();
@@ -87,6 +92,17 @@ describe('endpoints for visitors who are not signed in', () => {
     expect((await (await updateStatus(req('/api/system/update-status'))).json()).status).toEqual(STATUS);
   });
 
+  it('the connector probe follows loginShowVersion and still lists its targets', async () => {
+    vi.stubEnv('NEXT_PUBLIC_APP_VERSION', '1.9.0');
+    expect((await (await connectorCapabilities()).json()).version).toBe('1.9.0');
+
+    config.values.loginShowVersion = false;
+    const hidden = await (await connectorCapabilities()).json();
+    expect(hidden.version).toBeNull();
+    expect(hidden.product).toBe('bulwark-webmail');
+    expect(hidden.targets.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+  });
+
   it('the plugin list needs a session', async () => {
     expect((await plugins(req('/api/plugins'))).status).toBe(401);
     gate.signedIn = true;