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kefir500 picture kefir500 · Jan 29, 2014 · Viewed 17.7k times · Source

I'd like to have "Download Latest Version" button on my website which would represent the link to the latest release (stored at GitHub Releases). I tried to create release tag named "latest", but it became complicated when I tried to load new release (confusion with tag creation date, tag interchanging, etc.). Updating download links on my website manually is also a time-consuming and scrupulous task. I see the only way - redirect all download buttons to some html, which in turn will redirect to the actual latest release.

Note that my website is hosted at GitHub Pages (static hosting), so I simply can't use server-side scripting to generate links. Any ideas?

Answer

dod picture dod · Mar 19, 2014

Github now provides a "Latest release" button on the release page of a project, after you have created your first release.

In the example you gave, this button links to https://github.com/reactiveui/ReactiveUI/releases/latest

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