Sebastian Mendel CybotTM

One-liner to retrieve latest highest release (of a specific major version) from GitHub

Just retrieving the latest release may not what you want - An LTS v1.1.20 maybe released after another LTS v2.0.10

Example to get highest version, not just latest - because an LTS bugfix 1.2.3 could be released after a new major 3.x version

curl https://api.github.com/repos/docker/compose/releases -s | jq -r .[].tag_name | grep '^v*[0-9]\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*$' | sort -rV | head -n1

	<?php

	$composerJson = json_decode(file_get_contents(__DIR__ . 'composer.json'), true);
	$mappings = $composerJson['config']['extra']['sources-mapping'];

	foreach ($mappings as $package => $repository) {
	$packageInfo = shell_exec("composer info --format=json $package");
	if ($packageJson = json_decode($packageInfo, true)) {
	$path = $packageJson['path'];
	$version = str_replace('dev-', '', reset($packageJson['versions']));