This article explains how to show a history of recently installed, upgraded or removed packages, on Debian, Ubuntu or Linux Mint, from the command line. //

Show a list of recently upgraded packages, the date / time they were upgraded, as well as the old and new package version, on Debian, Ubuntu or Linux Mint:

 grep "upgrade " /var/log/dpkg.log

zgrep "upgrade " /var/log/dpkg.log.2.gz

apt package manager logs into /var/log/dpkg.log