diff --git a/PureStoragePlugin.pm b/PureStoragePlugin.pm
index 8baabd8..d228d3e 100644
--- a/PureStoragePlugin.pm
+++ b/PureStoragePlugin.pm
@@ -40,20 +40,35 @@ my $DEBUG = 0;
 
 ### BLOCK: Configuration
 sub api {
+  # PVE 5:   APIVER  2
+  # PVE 6:   APIVER  3
+  # PVE 6:   APIVER  4 e6f4eed43581de9b9706cc2263c9631ea2abfc1a / volume_has_feature
+  # PVE 6:   APIVER  5 a97d3ee49f21a61d3df10d196140c95dde45ec27 / allow rename
+  # PVE 6:   APIVER  6 8f26b3910d7e5149bfa495c3df9c44242af989d5 / prune_backups (fine, we don't support that content type)
+  # PVE 6:   APIVER  7 2c036838ed1747dabee1d2c79621c7d398d24c50 / volume_snapshot_needs_fsfreeze (guess we are fine, upstream only implemented it for RDBPlugin; we are not that different to let's say LVM in this regard)
+  # PVE 6:   APIVER  8 343ca2570c3972f0fa1086b020bc9ab731f27b11 / prune_backups (fine again, see APIVER 6)
+  # PVE 7:   APIVER  9 3cc29a0487b5c11592bf8b16e96134b5cb613237 / resets APIAGE! changes volume_import/volume_import_formats
+  # PVE 7.1: APIVER 10 a799f7529b9c4430fee13e5b939fe3723b650766 / rm/add volume_snapshot_{list,info} (not used); blockers to volume_rollback_is_possible (not used)
+  # PVE 8.4: APIVER 11 e2dc01ac9f06fe37cf434bad9157a50ecc4a99ce / new_backup_provider/sensitive_properties; backup provider might be interesting, we can look at it later
+  # PVE 9:   APIVER 12 280bb6be777abdccd89b1b1d7bdd4feaba9af4c2 / qemu_blockdev_options/rename_snapshot/get_formats
 
-# PVE 5:   APIVER  2
-# PVE 6:   APIVER  3
-# PVE 6:   APIVER  4 e6f4eed43581de9b9706cc2263c9631ea2abfc1a / volume_has_feature
-# PVE 6:   APIVER  5 a97d3ee49f21a61d3df10d196140c95dde45ec27 / allow rename
-# PVE 6:   APIVER  6 8f26b3910d7e5149bfa495c3df9c44242af989d5 / prune_backups (fine, we don't support that content type)
-# PVE 6:   APIVER  7 2c036838ed1747dabee1d2c79621c7d398d24c50 / volume_snapshot_needs_fsfreeze (guess we are fine, upstream only implemented it for RDBPlugin; we are not that different to let's say LVM in this regard)
-# PVE 6:   APIVER  8 343ca2570c3972f0fa1086b020bc9ab731f27b11 / prune_backups (fine again, see APIVER 6)
-# PVE 7:   APIVER  9 3cc29a0487b5c11592bf8b16e96134b5cb613237 / resets APIAGE! changes volume_import/volume_import_formats
-# PVE 7.1: APIVER 10 a799f7529b9c4430fee13e5b939fe3723b650766 / rm/add volume_snapshot_{list,info} (not used); blockers to volume_rollback_is_possible (not used)
+  my $tested_apiver = 12;
 
-  my $apiver = 10;
+  my $apiver = PVE::Storage::APIVER;
+  my $apiage = PVE::Storage::APIAGE;
 
-  return $apiver;
+  # the plugin supports multiple PVE generations, currently we did not break anything, tell them what they want to hear if possible
+  if ($apiver >= 2 and $apiver <= $tested_apiver) {
+     return $apiver;
+  }
+
+  # if we are still in the APIAGE, we can still report what we have
+  if ($apiver - $apiage < $tested_apiver) {
+     return $tested_apiver;
+  }
+
+  # lowest apiver we support
+  return 10;
 }
 
 sub type {