Is there a way to get the latest GitLab version using API?

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Hello, I’m using GitLab in Docker container, everything is fine.
But I have some troubles with automatic updates, so I’m just curious, is there an API to get latest version of GitLab?
So far, I can query https://version.gitlab.com/check.svg?…, then parse XML, and then made update if updates is available. But, that’s not very convenient.
Would be great, if I can make some request like https://version.gitlab.com/api/v1/version and get latest stable version available.

Thanks in advance.

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Did you try version API?
http://localhost/help/api/version.md

3

Maybe I missed the point, but how that can help me?
I need to know if there are updates available, not the current version of the GitLab instance

4

Sorry. You can just curl the following uri in github gitlab repo to the get tags and parse the first name without suffix “.pre” or “-rc”.
https://api.github.com/repos/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/tags

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Thanks.
So, when the new release is pulled to Github I can be sure that I can pull this version from Docker Hub?

So far, I use https://version.gitlab.com/check.svg?gitlab_info=eyJ2ZXJzaW9uIjoiOS41LjAifQ==
Where gitlab_info is base64-encoded version of my GitLab instance, and then I can parse reply, which is something like this:
update available
And I can be sure, that newer version is available from Docker Hub.

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It’s the source repository for the docker images.
If you want to be absolutely sure, you can try querying the dockerhub repo to get the tag list.
curl -s https://hub.docker.com/v2/repositories/gitlab/gitlab-ce/tags/?page_size=5 | sed “s/,/\n/g” | grep name | cut -d ‘"’ -f 4

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Huh, thanks mate. I’ll try this.

Sadly, that there is no convenient way to do this, something like Update API.

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I didn’t see this when I opened this: Monitoring For Gitlab Software Package Updates and CVEs?

TLDR; you can get available updates with something like this:

VERSION=`echo '{"version": "16.8.1"}' | base64`
curl -e "https://myserver.some.domain" "https://version.gitlab.com/check.json?gitlab_info=${VERSION}"
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There is the metadata API which gives you the version for Gitlab:

It supercedes the version API which is mentioned here:

You can run both of those against your instance, and the Gitlab SaaS one and compare the results.