# Releases on Github disappeared?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/releases-on-github-disappeared/206917
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 24, 2021, 9:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/releases-on-github-disappeared/206917 "2021-10-24T21:58:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@mig5](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mig5)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2021, 9:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/releases-on-github-disappeared/206917/1 "2021-10-24T21:58:46Z")
Hi,
I have been relying on the atom feed at [Release notes from discourse](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/releases.atom) for a long time to alert me to the latest release, which has fed into some other tooling like Icinga and Slack notifications when the Discourse version is out of date.
(I know that Discourse can send e-mails about this, but e-mail is not a viable alerting mechanism for us).
It seems as of the weekend that all the releases disappeared from [Releases · discourse/discourse · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/releases) - was that deliberate?
This also means that other methods than feeds, such as [REST API endpoints for repositories - GitHub Docs](https://docs.github.com/en/rest/reference/repos#get-the-latest-release) don’t work either, so [https://api.github.com/repos/discourse/discourse/releases/latest](https://api.github.com/repos/discourse/discourse/releases/latest) now throws a 404.
Maybe there’s a good reason for this but I’m hopeful that releases can be restored on Github for what is a useful method to check the latest release. Alternatively, is this info available somewhere else? We can’t rely on [Tags · discourse/discourse · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/tags) because ‘latest-release’ doesn’t really point to a version number there.
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2021, 11:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/releases-on-github-disappeared/206917/2 "2021-10-24T23:31:31Z")
We have an official release RSS feed at [https://meta.discourse.org/tag/release-notes.rss](https://meta.discourse.org/tag/release-notes.rss).
That may be better suited for your needs!
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### Author:  [@mig5](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mig5)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2021, 12:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/releases-on-github-disappeared/206917/3 "2021-10-25T00:49:11Z")
Thanks - that’s a useful feed, but it’s also not really as good, because it’s somewhat ‘unstructured’ content. I would have to parse the title element, and that relies on human consistency - as soon as someone is inconsistent with the version number (perhaps putting a ‘v’ or ‘version X.X.X’ or putting it not at the start of the title) it could break.
This is why the strict, structured data from Github was really useful. Is there any reason it was removed?
Anyway, I’ll maybe try and rely on /tags at Github and just try and detect a higher version or something. Thanks nonetheless