wp-includes/class-wpdb.php:4207Retrieves the database server version number.
string|null public function db_version() { return preg_replace( '/[^0-9.].*/', '', $this->db_server_info() ); }Introduced in 2.7.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
Signature, return type and hooks compared across 5 parsed releases.
src/wp-includes/class-wpdb.php, and regenerated for each WordPress release so it tracks the code rather than a snapshot of it.