OpenSSL version tracking

[Matt Caswell]

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
> <https://github.com/DanGough/Nevergreen>
> 	
> GitHub - DanGough/Nevergreen: This module is an alternative to 
> Evergreen, and allows you to find the latest version and download URL 
> for various Windows apps. Evergreen uses API queries to obtain its data 
> whereas this module is more focussed on web scrapin 
> <https://github.com/DanGough/Nevergreen>
> This module is an alternative to Evergreen, and allows you to find the 
> latest version and download URL for various Windows apps. Evergreen uses 
> API queries to obtain its data whereas this module is...
> github.com
> 
> 
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