CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

[3.5.7] - 2024-11-07

Fixed

• Raised files download timeout to 30 seconds

[3.5.6] - 2024-09-08

Fixed

• Known NGINX repo has been moved to GitHub

[3.5.5] - 2024-08-27

Fixed

• Fixed some GitHub API nuances and incorrect versions returned #168

[3.5.4] - 2024-07-27

Fixed

• Introduced timeout of 30 seconds for HTTP requests to avoid hanging on slow connections

[3.5.3] - 2024-07-12

Fixed

• Added a special case of normalizing service pack versions, e.g. 15 SP6 to 15.post6

[3.5.2] - 2024-03-17

Fixed

• Additional beta detection for GitHub projects

[3.5.1] - 2024-03-10

Fixed

• Fixed source tarball link for releases which have slash in tag names
• Improved detection of pre-releases

[3.5.0] - 2024-01-29

Fixed

• Improved and added zip support in extract command by @lxl66566
• The -gt CLI did not recognize first argument as repo in some cases

[3.4.6] - 2023-12-26

Fixed

• Looking at more tags in GitLab API to fix #135

[3.4.5] - 2023-12-16

Fixed

• Some authors tag with build numbers, e.g. 1.2.3-1, which incorrectly was in the version #134

[3.4.4] - 2023-12-16

Fixed

• No release could be found for GitLab projects in subgroups #132

Added

• For GitLab, structured output now includes /LICENSE file contents, when available

[3.4.3] - 2023-12-11

Fixed

• Added --formal switch to allow for formal releases only

[3.4.2] - 2023-12-10

Fixed

• --format source did not include valid links

Added

• source_url is now included in --format json output
• Web API! Hooray!

[3.4.1] - 2023-12-07

Fixed

• GitLab --format json failed when no assets were present

[3.4.0] - 2023-12-02

Added

• lastversion_only global is respected in .spec files
• lastversion_having_asset global is respected in .spec files

Fixed

• Reworked search across different project locations to be more consistent

[3.3.2] - 2023-09-25

Fixed

• Fix regression in semver preference

[3.3.1] - 2023-09-22

Fixed

• Fixed AppImage installation #107

[3.3.0] - 2023-09-19

Added

• Ability to fetch --source URLs for SourceForge projects

[3.1.2] - 2023-09-16

Fixed

• Fixed AppImage installation #107

[3.1.2] - 2023-09-16

Fixed

• Fixed AppImage installation #107

[3.1.1] - 2023-09-16

Changed

• Some code refactoring and better identifying of pre-releases

[3.1.1] - 2023-09-14

Changed

• GitHub: when a semver version is detected, it is now used as a constraint #109

[3.0.1] - 2023-07-15

Changed

• Relaxed CacheControl dependency versions constraints
• Fixed "1.2.3-alpha" unnumbered pre-release detection

[3.0.0] - 2023-06-22

Changed

• Python 2 is no longer supported

Fixed

• Wrong version parsing with number in name #102
• 90+ versions that look like dates triggered pre-release detection

[2.4.15] - 2023-05-08

Fixed

• Pinned some dependency versions to avoid breakage
• Removed unnecessary warnings

[2.4.14] - 2023-04-24

Fixed

• Fix URL encoded tag names #99

[2.4.13] - 2023-03-28

Fixed

• Downloading GitLab --assets is now possible
• Fixed --exclude option not working
• Fixes detecting of some pre-releases

[2.4.12] - 2023-03-11

Fixed

• Fixes an issue where release feed contains identical tag versions #92

[2.4.11] - 2023-02-16

Fixed

• Don't treat 0.0.90+ as pre-releases #90

[2.4.10] - 2023-01-24

Fixed

• Fatal failure regression from release 2.4.9 on some packaging library versions
• More intelligent search in GitLab tags

[2.4.9] - 2023-01-22

Added

• New --even switch to target software that uses odd/even versioning where even is stable

Fixed

• Micro-releases 90+ are treated as non-stable versions (old Linux software)

[2.4.8] - 2022-12-05

Fixed

• Better detection of x86_64 arch for install command

[2.4.7] - 2022-11-10

Added

• Added quictls/openssl repo shortcut
• Updated Accept: API header reflecting current state of GitHub docs

Fixed

• Use stars instead of best-match for GitHub repo search as it seems more consistent
• Minor optimization to GitHub repositories search

[2.4.6] - 2022-10-26

Added

• More licenses for matching to RPM license field #74
• Added quictls/openssl for special version handling

[2.4.5] - 2022-05-22

Added

• Officially supporting Gitea repos #73

[2.4.4] - 2022-05-08

Added

• Allow extracting version from an arbitrary string (CLI)

[2.4.3] - 2022-04-29

Fixed

• Allow using --at with any non-URL repository specifier

[2.4.2] - 2022-04-10

Fixed

• Detection of self-hosted GitLab via gitlab. subdomain

[2.4.1] - 2022-04-10

Fixed

• Fixed regression from previous release where --tag CLI failed

[2.4.0] - 2022-04-09

Added

• Added better semantic versioning support via --sem option

[2.3.0] - 2022-04-05

Fixed

• Removed unnecessary API calls, performance improvement

[2.2.2] - 2022-03-18

Fixed

• rpmspec_license failed output when no license

[2.2.1] - 2022-02-27

Added

• --only now accepts regex via ~ prefix and negation via ! prefix
• new --exclude argument allows for negative filtering
• dict or json output: added rpmspec_license field

[2.2.0] - 2022-02-27

Added

• unzip command to extract project directly to the current directory

[2.1.0] - 2022-02-23

Added

• Several extra repo shortcuts: kodi for Kodi, sles for SUSE Enterprise
• Refactored code so that caching can be better used
• Extra detection of beta via preview and early-access delimiters
• --at wordpress for WordPress plugins

[2.0.1] - 2021-10-28

Fixed

• GitHub has empty releases.atom in tag-only repos #63, #65
• Fix for some repos where releases.atom contains old releases only

[2.0.0] - 2021-10-21

Changed

• The "install" action operates against releases with respective assets #60

Fixed

• The releases.atom w/o authorization, fixes behavior of GitHub returning empty feeds

[1.6.0] - 2021-09-04

Added

• For .spec file updates, look for URL: tag as well, to use as repo argument
• --at system will query last version from package managers
• Various performance optimizations

[1.5.1] - 2021-08-07

Added

• --having-asset accepts regular expression if tilde prepended
• For one-word repo argument, check word/word official GitHub repo first, then search

[1.5.0] - 2021-08-06

Added

• New --having-asset switch to consider only formal releases with given asset name

Fixed

• Unnecessary parsing of repo argument as version (performance)

[1.4.5] - 2021-07-16

Fixed

• Fixed RPM builds rpmlint changelog-time-in-future by having changelog in UTC

[1.4.4] - 2021-07-16

Added

• Print latest version from .spec file every time

[1.4.3] - 2021-07-16

Fixed

• Fixed installation on some systems

[1.4.2] - 2021-07-15

Added

• Experimental: updating .spec files for RPM auto-builds #26

[1.4.1] - 2021-07-08

Fixed

• --download option works for asset downloads, as long as there is one asset

[1.4.0] - 2021-06-27

Added

• Now it's easy to get OS versions. Just run lastversion ubuntu or something

[1.3.5] - 2021-06-09

Added

• Ability to parse/check Helm chart repository metadata #50

Fixed

• Ensure the --only switch works consistently across different project hosting

[1.3.4] - 2021-05-25

Added

• Arbitrary versions comparison in CLI: lastversion 1.2.3 -gt 1.2.4
• lastversion --version reports available updates for lastversion
• Clean up canceled download on Ctrl+C

[1.3.3] - 2021-02-03

Added

• More requests logging in --verbose mode
• Log failed feed parsing
• Raising BadProjectError from GraphQL find method if repo arg is invalid

Fixed

• Work around GitHub servers' inconsistency with feed redirects #44
• Using all tags in GraphQL find method, instead of annotated only #44

[1.3.2] - 2021-01-12

Fixed

• GraphQL method for finding release tags was not reliable on repos with tags having no tagger field
• Strip all extraneous alphanumerics from beginning of tags to improve detection

[1.3.1] - 2021-01-17

Added

• output_format='dict for the lastversion.latest() function
• Honour GITHUB_TOKEN env var in addition to GITHUB_API_TOKEN

[1.3.0] - 2021-01-16

Added

• --at switch (and function argument) to explicitly specify project provider
• PyPI support

[1.2.6] - 2021-01-13

Fixed

• Ensure compatibility with older python packaging module found in CentOS 7

[1.2.5] - 2021-01-12

Fixed

• Version checks and output for odd non-semantic tags, e.g. 1.1.1i (OpenSSL)

[1.2.4] - 2020-12-19

Fixed

• Fixed waiting API quota reinstatement
• Cache info about non-existent GitHub repositories

[1.2.3] - 2020-10-02

Fixed

• Fixed lastversion URL introduced by regression from 1.2.1

[1.2.2] - 2020-09-29

Fixed

• --format json and --format assets work for Non-GitHub projects

[1.2.1] - 2020-09-29

Added

• lastversion repo:branch syntax, e.g. lastversion php:7.2 or lastversion nginx:mainline

Fixed

• require feedparser version that works with Python 2

[1.2.0] - 2020-09-06

Added

• New switch --only allows filtering projects in repos with multiple actual projects
• Ability to sniff version from a software website which publishes releases in RSS/ATOM feeds #23
• Ability to sniff version by discovering GitHub repository links on a software website #23

Fixed

• No longer messing with root logger, playing safe as a library (opt-in behavior when used as module)

[1.1.8] - 2020-08-13

Added

• Fixed up --major constraint to work more correctly
• Use GraphQL API (GitHub) when deep searching tags is required (faster --major)
• Paginate across tags when a release matching constraints is not present in the feed (GitHub) #12
• Simple Python interface for update checks: lastversion.has_update(repo, current_version)
• Various fixes

[1.1.7] - 2020-08-07

Added

• Aggregate older tags, up to one year, for better latest release detection (feed only)

[1.1.6] - 2020-07-18

Added

• General improvements for releases detection
• SourceForge projects support

[1.1.5] - 2020-05-04

Added

• Better detection of post-releases, e.g. Magento 2.3.4-p2 is the latest stable release for the --major 2.3.4
• Added new --format tag switch to get just the latest release's tag name. Proven to be useful in some cases

[1.1.4] - 2020-04-23

Fixed

• Fixed detecting non-GitHub repos and known URLs
• Improved RPM install by checking with RPM db and avoiding unnecessary downloads absent updates

[1.1.3] - 2020-04-15

Fixed

• Show error when no repo found (no results from search)
• Added spec_tag_no_prefix to JSON output
• Returning Null for license when it doesn't exist at release tag

[1.1.2] - 2020-04-04

Fixed

• Require requests>=2.6.1 to compensate for cachecontrol bug

[1.1.1] - 2020-03-31

Fixed

• Do not output progressbar when downloading and no TTY available, e.g. for log output

[1.1.0] - 2020-03-24

Added

• Install action
• Progressbar for download action, when download size is known

[1.0.1] - 2020-03-23

Fixed

• Compatibility with older PyYAML

[1.0.0] - 2020-03-23

Changed

• BREAKING release for Python consumers:
  The latest Python function now returns Version object instead of string, by default

Added

• test command to see how a given tag would be parsed as version: lastversion test 'release-3_0_2'
• Limited GitLab support
• Limited Mercurial web repos support
• Limited BitBucket support
• Use feeds where available, thus much, much faster while still precise
• Ability to pass .yml with repo: value inside. Other elements are merged into --format json output. More on the wiki on how useful it is