How to be automatically informed on new Pureboot firmware updates?

Hardware
1

Hi,

I wonder which channel, feeds, etc. will keep me updated on new firmware releases automatically?

At the moment I simply check with “wget https://source.puri.sm/coreboot/utility/raw/master/coreboot_util.sh -O coreboot_util.sh” every few months.

Kind regards,

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Well, you know. I’m all for ad hoc scripting.

$ cat fw_check.sh
#!/bin/bash

TAG_STORAGE_LOCATION="$HOME/.config/coreboot-notifier"
TAG_FILE="$TAG_STORAGE_LOCATION/last_tag"
TAGS_URL="https://source.puri.sm/api/v4/projects/287/repository/tags"

# Make sure these exist even on first run
mkdir -p "$TAG_STORAGE_LOCATION"
touch "$TAG_FILE"

# Check last coreboot tag
last_tag=$(curl -s "$TAGS_URL" | jq -r '.[0].name')

# Check last known tag
last_known_tag=$(cat "$TAG_FILE")

if [ "$last_known_tag" != "$last_tag" ]
then
    # Probably we need a bit louder notification here...
    echo "New coreboot release detected - $last_tag! Go get it now!"

    echo "$last_tag" > "$TAG_FILE"
else
    echo "No new releases found."
fi

Result:

$ ./fw_check.sh
New coreboot release detected - 4.12-Purism-6! Go get it now!
$ ./fw_check.sh
No new releases found.

You could add it to cron (e.g. schedule it for daily execution) and replace echo with some kind of a sensible notification.

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3

Hi

Thank you very much.
The script works very well. With cron + mailutils I do receive the notifications.

Cool.

Best regards,

b