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Hi there,

As I am using openhab I would like to be aware of new versions that are released. I just noticed that the download button on the site now, mentions 1.8.1 but can’t find an announcement for that (other than the release notes on github). Is there a newsletter, forum or anything that I can subscribe to to be made aware of these releases?

I have searched around a bit but could not find anything, but I apologies if I have missed something obvious…

Cheers,

Dries

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There was a note here in the forum, but I also somehow received an email from new-releases@bintray.com, so I must have signed up there to be informed.

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I second this. I come here often but didn’t see any note either. It would be nice if there was a sticky or banner or something. Or even a note on how to sign up for notifications in the getting started wiki.

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I’m actually not finding the note either. I saw Kai’s announcement about OH 2 Beta 2 but there was no mention of 1.8.1 there. Did it get mislabeled? There is no mention of 1.8.1 in Announcements which is where I would have expected to see it.

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You might be right – this is the last word on it I’ve noticed. I’ve not tried apt-get update again since my first premature attempt.

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I got a mess of updates from apt-get yesterday and all my addons are 1.8.1 now so I think it is live. That was actually the first I noticed that 1.8.1 was released.

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The posting was accidently released too early :slightly_smiling:

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Both releases were planned for Feb 1, but somehow @teichsta is still struggling to finish the 1.8.1 release. Probably best if he could comment here in the current status.

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Of course it is good to know about 1.8.1 (which is the official download
from the site at the moment), but my original question was about OH in
general :slight_smile:

How can I be triggered for updates in general?

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Well, follow on Twitter, subscribe to the Announcement category or manually check the homepage.

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Huuh! I am not struggling anymore.

SORRY, SORRY, SORRY!

All uploads were finished on Tuesday (except the apt-repo which has been finished in Wednesday morning). But i didn’t announced it yet, sorry!

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just wondering if anyone has thought of maybe doing a binding… we have openhab for notifying us of things. switches could be turned on. any kind of actions could be done. or something simple like a message on the site map that says an update is available.

Just my 2 pennies :stuck_out_tongue:

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… absolutely nice idea. Kind of a ecosystem binding! Would love to see this implemented. Especially with the more generalised notification mechanism (not yet in place).

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Something like that could allow for alot of system info. Bindings available, versions, system info. A full system page could be generated off a binding like that

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@crankycoder - i was about to suggest the same…a binding to notify on OH announcements.

Perhaps it could report back to Kai/dev team various metrics so he has a database of whats in use out there.

  • hardware platform
    -OS
  • bindings in use
  • fatal errors.
    -etc.

Obviously this upload of data would be opt-in, and anonymoused , but i personally would be happy to give that info to assist with development.

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I ran into that problem too. It might be wort mentioning that you can subscribe to an RSS feed for announcements:
https://community.openhab.org/c/announcements.rss