diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 173cdb28..e609bfe5 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: boxr
 Type: Package
 Title: Interface for the 'Box.com API'
-Version: 0.3.5.9011
+Version: 0.3.5.9012
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Brendan", "Rocks", email = "foss@brendanrocks.com",
            role = c("aut")),
@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@ Authors@R: c(
       comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-6714-8611")
     ),
     person("Vincent", "Fulco", role = "ctb"),
-    person("Alec", "Wong", role = "ctb")
+    person("Alec", "Wong", role = "ctb"),
+    person("Alex", "Brodersen", role = "ctb")
     )
 URL: https://github.com/r-box/boxr/
 BugReports: https://github.com/r-box/boxr/issues
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 6d0f4af3..6c701b6a 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@
 
 * uses `httr::RETRY()` for API requests to handle momentary issues with network connectivity. Thanks @jameslamb and @chircollab!
 
+* `box_ls()` provides the current `version_id` by default. (#181, @alexbrodersen)
+
 ## Bug Fixes
 
 * `box_auth_service()` more resilient to bad-request failures. (#166)
diff --git a/R/boxr_misc.R b/R/boxr_misc.R
index 5bcf9fd5..01f7a995 100644
--- a/R/boxr_misc.R
+++ b/R/boxr_misc.R
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
 #' @param limit  `integer`, maximum number of entries to retrieve per query-page.
 #' @param max    `integer`, maximum number of entries to retrieve in total.
 #' @param fields `character`, fields to return; the default
-#'   value, `NULL`, will return all possible columns: `modified_at`,
+#'   value, `NULL`, will return all possible fields from API: `modified_at`,
 #'   `content_modified_at`, `name`, `id`, `type`, `sha1` ,`size`,
-#'   `owned_by`, `path_collection`, `description`.
+#'   `owned_by`, `path_collection`, `description`, `file_version`.
 #'
 #' @return Object with S3 class [`boxr_object_list`][boxr_S3_classes].
 #'
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ box_ls <- function(dir_id = box_getwd(), limit = 100, max = Inf, fields = NULL)
   
   fields_all <- 
     c("modified_at" ,"content_modified_at", "name", "id", "type",
-      "sha1" ,"size", "owned_by", "path_collection", "description")
+      "sha1" ,"size", "owned_by", "path_collection", "description", "file_version")
   
   if (is.null(fields)) {
     fields <- fields_all
diff --git a/R/boxr_s3_classes.R b/R/boxr_s3_classes.R
index 3894e02d..02ab8dfc 100644
--- a/R/boxr_s3_classes.R
+++ b/R/boxr_s3_classes.R
@@ -158,6 +158,8 @@ as.data.frame.boxr_object_list <- function(x, ...) {
       content_modified_at = box_datetime(x$content_modified_at) %|0|% as.POSIXct(NA),
       sha1                = x$sha1 %|0|% NA_character_,
       version             = as.numeric(x$etag) + 1,
+      version_no          = as.numeric(x$etag) + 1,
+      version_id          = x$file_version$id %|0|% NA_character_,
       stringsAsFactors    = FALSE
     )
   }
diff --git a/man/box_ls.Rd b/man/box_ls.Rd
index 9b2ed116..57630d28 100644
--- a/man/box_ls.Rd
+++ b/man/box_ls.Rd
@@ -14,9 +14,9 @@ box_ls(dir_id = box_getwd(), limit = 100, max = Inf, fields = NULL)
 \item{max}{\code{integer}, maximum number of entries to retrieve in total.}
 
 \item{fields}{\code{character}, fields to return; the default
-value, \code{NULL}, will return all possible columns: \code{modified_at},
+value, \code{NULL}, will return all possible fields from API: \code{modified_at},
 \code{content_modified_at}, \code{name}, \code{id}, \code{type}, \code{sha1} ,\code{size},
-\code{owned_by}, \code{path_collection}, \code{description}.}
+\code{owned_by}, \code{path_collection}, \code{description}, \code{file_version}.}
 }
 \value{
 Object with S3 class \code{\link[=boxr_S3_classes]{boxr_object_list}}.
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test_12_ls.R b/tests/testthat/test_12_ls.R
index 507115a6..c8172b3e 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test_12_ls.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test_12_ls.R
@@ -62,9 +62,19 @@ test_that("file listing works", {
   files_box_page <-
     box_ls(id_ls, limit = 5) %>%
     get_filenames()
-  
+
   # test
   expect_identical(files_box, files_local)
   expect_identical(files_box_page, files_local)
+  
+  # make sure we are getting all the names back from box_ls()
+  expect_named(
+    box_ls(id_ls) %>% as.data.frame(),
+    c(
+      "name", "type", "id", "size", "description", "owner", "path", 
+      "modified_at", "content_modified_at", "sha1", 
+      "version", "version_no", "version_id"
+    ) 
+  )
  
 })