Notify in case of availability of new version in admin section / UI

[lenucksi]

As a person responsible for a Gogs deploment I would like to know whenever there is a new version without having to visit the Gogs.io site, GitHub or an RSS feed.
Thus I would like to be notified in the Gogs UI once a new version becomes available.

Such a notification could be placed in the Admin-Section or somewhere at the top once a user is logged in.

[bkcsoft]

How often should it check? GitHub has a rate-limit of 60 requests per hour for non-authenticated release-fetching 😄

@unknwon how about using that for automated updates? the release files should include everything we need for updates 😄

[lenucksi]

Maybe it would suffice to put some json file in the website branch or some other webhost that is updated upon a new release. That way one would not run into API limits...

[bkcsoft]

Easiest and most reliable is github API. And having a worker check once per hour isn't hard to do.

@unknwon what do you think?

[denisz1]

+1
But keep it simple, just have a link "check for updates", no need to continually poll. Link can point to latest release page.

[bkcsoft]

Apparently... Github has Atom-feeds for releases... https://github.com/gogits/gogs/releases.atom