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

[3.5.12] - 2025-12-07¤

Fixed¤

  • Fixed UnicodeEncodeError in --help on systems with LANG=C (EL7 RPM builds)
  • Fixed IndentationError in utils.py (architecture filtering)

[3.5.10] - 2025-12-07¤

Added¤

  • Bulk input option -i / --input-file to process multiple repos from a file #178
  • Semver constraints for -gt: exit code 4 when newer version outside constraint #43
  • Commit-based spec file updates with %global commit support #59
  • Spec file %global lastversion_sem for semver constraints #26
  • Spec file License: tag auto-update from upstream SPDX license #26
  • Cache management: lastversion cache clear command #126
  • Codeberg support (recognized as Gitea instance) #174
  • Truststore integration for custom SSL certificates #175
  • GitLab asset digest support in JSON output #193
  • .7z archive extraction support (optional py7zr dependency) #98
  • Expanded SPDX license mappings (80+ licenses) #74

Fixed¤

  • Architecture filtering for install command on aarch64 #117
  • Prefer native packages (RPM/deb) over AppImages when installing
  • GitLab instances with non-standard ports now work correctly #170
  • GitLab packages are now returned as assets #184
  • Python 3.6 compatibility (type hints, dependency markers)

[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