lastversion-action

This GitHub Action uses the lastversion command-line utility to fetch the latest stable version of any GitHub project or other software.

Tremendously useful for continious integration and building your software against latest stable dependencies and avoid hardcoding of software versions in your workflows.

Inputs

repository

Optional. The GitHub repository or the name of the software for which you want to fetch the latest stable version. Example: nginx or https://github.com/mautic/mautic. Defaults to GitHub repository of the current workflow.

action

Optional. The action to perform:

• get to get the latest version string (default action).
• unzip to extract the latest release archive to the current directory.
• download to download the latest release archive to the current directory.

branch

Optional. The branch to fetch the latest version from. Default is no branch filtering. Example: mainline. Useful only for rare cases where a single repository hosts multiple software projects or version lines. Can be also used to specify a major version, e.g. 2 or 2.0 to fetch the latest version of 2.x branch.

output_format

Optional. The output format for get action. Allowed values are: version, json, and assets. Default is version.

extra_args

Optional. Any extra arguments to pass to the lastversion utility.

working_directory

Change the working directory for the action. Default is the current directory.

Outputs

last_version

The latest stable version of the specified software or GitHub project. Or any other output, depending on the output_format input.

Usage

You can do a lot of useful things, but the primary use cases are:

• Download and extract the latest stable version of some software in your GitHub workflow
• Simply get the latest version string of some software for use in your GitHub workflow

Downloading the latest stable version of software

To use this action in your GitHub workflow, add the following step:

    steps:
      # ...
      - name: Download stable NGINX
        uses: dvershinin/lastversion-action@main
        with:
          repository: 'nginx'
          action: 'unzip'
          branch: 'stable'
      - name: Confirm NGINX source files are in the current directory
        run: ls -al
      # ...

At this point in your GitHub workflow, you have the latest stable version of NGINX downloaded and extracted in the current directory.

Getting the latest version string of some software

    steps:
      # ...
      - name: Fetch latest version
        id: lastversion
        uses: dvershinin/lastversion-action@main
        with:
          repository: 'nginx'
          branch: 'mainline'
      - name: Print latest version
        run: echo "Latest version is ${{ steps.lastversion.outputs.last_version }}"
      # ...

In this example, the Fetch latest version step will fetch the latest version of NGINX from the mainline branch, and the Print latest version step will print the fetched version. You can adjust the inputs to fetch the latest version of other software or GitHub projects.

Example with GitHub repository

    steps:
      # ...
      - name: Fetch latest version of Mautic
        id: lastversion
        uses: dvershinin/lastversion-action@main
        with:
          repository: 'https://github.com/mautic/mautic'  
      - name: Print latest version
        run: echo "Latest version of Mautic is ${{ steps.lastversion.outputs.last_version }}"
      # ...

In this example, the Fetch latest version of Mautic step will fetch the latest stable version of the Mautic project, and the Print latest version step will print the fetched version.