On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 08:39:27PM +0200, Michal Stanke wrote: > I wanted to ask if there is any API or machine friendly format with the > list of Ubuntu releases, which would be updated when a new version is out > too.
Fetch JSON from https://api.launchpad.net/devel/ubuntu/series Then look at "Status". Documentation: https://launchpad.net/+apidoc/devel.html#distribution https://launchpad.net/+apidoc/devel.html#distro_series An alternative is to use the "distro-info" package, but that (actually "distro-info-data" that it depends on) isn't usually updated straight away. Come to think of it, I'm not sure exactly when the series status is changed on Launchpad, either. Another alternative is to watch the simplestreams data for cloud image downloads: http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/streams/v1/com.ubuntu.cloud:released:download.json Note that in this API a bunch the product identifiers are arbitrary and you shouldn't rely on them. Instead filter for "well-known" keys, such as "arch", "release", "release_title" or "version". The presence of an entry with keys that match tells you that such a thing is available, but more entry types may become available in the future during the lifetime of a release, such as new types or encodings of images, images with different sorts of kernels, and so on. HTH, Robie
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