On 12/02/2024 10:54, Adrian Scott via openssl-users wrote:
Hello,
Is anyone aware if a .JSON or XML file exists (and is regularly
maintained) which contains all current versions, release dates and
direct download urls for all OpenSSL releases?
The github releases page here:
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/releases
Is available in "atom" format:
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/releases.atom
It doesn't seem to contain links to the actual downloadable assets
though - although you could infer their names from the tag name.
Matt
It would be a useful file that could be queried with automation in order
to download or alert on the existence of new releases.
For software deployment teams that use PowerShell on Windows, there are
PowerShell modules such as Evergreen
(https://stealthpuppy.com/evergreen/
<https://stealthpuppy.com/evergreen/>), that can keep track of current
release versions if the data is served in certain data formats .JSON or
.XML are probably the easiest to read. For applications where the only
recourse is to use web page
scraping, Nevergreen (https://github.com/DanGough/Nevergreen
<https://github.com/DanGough/Nevergreen>) could be used - but this
method is prone to failure if the layout of the url (webpage) ever changes.
The only method I'm aware of to find current OpenSSL releases is to
webscrape the OpenSSL downloads page (https://www.openssl.org/source/
<https://www.openssl.org/source/>) reading the release information from
the table
Thanks in advance,
Adrian
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