Added latest released version to the inventory.json.

Author: Paebbels

.github/workflows/NightlyRelease.yml

@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ jobs:
             if [[ -n "${downloadedArtifacts[$artifact]}" ]]; then
               printf "  %s\n" "downloading '${artifact}' ... ${ANSI_LIGHT_YELLOW}[SKIPPED]${ANSI_NOCOLOR}"
             else
-              echo    "  downloading '${artifact}' ... "
+              printf "  downloading '${artifact}' ...\n"
               printf "    %s" "gh run download $GITHUB_RUN_ID --dir \"${artifact}\" --name \"${artifact}\" "
               gh run download $GITHUB_RUN_ID --dir "${artifact}" --name "${artifact}"
               if [[ $? -eq 0 ]]; then

.github/workflows/PublishReleaseNotes.yml

@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ jobs:
               printf "  %s\n" "MergedAt: ${PR_MERGED_AT} ($(date -d"${PR_MERGED_AT}" '+%d.%m.%Y - %H:%M:%S'))"
             fi
 
-            echo "${PR_BODY}" > __PULLREQUEST__.md
+            printf "%s\n" "${PR_BODY}" > __PULLREQUEST__.md
           fi
 
           # Check if a release description file should be used and exists.
@@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ jobs:
           NOTES="${NOTES//%%datetime%%/$(date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z')}"
 
           # Write final release notes to file
-          echo "${NOTES}" > __NOTES__.md
+          printf "%s\n" "${NOTES}" > __NOTES__.md
 
           # Display partial contents for debugging
           if [[ -s __DESCRIPTION__.md ]]; then
@@ -498,6 +498,25 @@ jobs:
           if [[ "${{ inputs.inventory-json }}" != "" ]]; then
             VERSION="1.0"
 
+            # Use GitHub API to ask for latest version
+            printf "Get latest released version via GitHub API ...\n"
+            printf "  gh release list --json tagName,isLatest --jq '.[] | select(.isLatest == true) | .tagName' "
+            latestVersion=$(gh release list --json tagName,isLatest --jq '.[] | select(.isLatest == true) | .tagName')
+            if [[ $? -eq 0 ]]; then
+              if [[ -n "${latestVersion}" ]]; then
+                printf "${ANSI_LIGHT_RED}[UNKNOWN]${ANSI_NOCOLOR}\n"
+                latestVersion="unknown"
+              else
+                printf "${ANSI_LIGHT_GREEN}[OK]${ANSI_NOCOLOR}\n"
+              fi
+            else
+              printf "${ANSI_LIGHT_RED}[ERROR]${ANSI_NOCOLOR}\n"
+              printf "    ${ANSI_LIGHT_RED}Couldn't get latest released version '%s'.${ANSI_NOCOLOR}\n" "${latestVersion}"
+              printf "::error title=%s::%s\n" "GitHub Release API" "Couldn't get latest released version '${latestVersion}'."
+
+              latestVersion="error"
+            fi
+
             # Split categories by ',' into a Bash array.
             # See https://stackoverflow.com/a/45201229/3719459
             if [[ "${{ inputs.inventory-categories }}" != "" ]]; then
@@ -517,11 +536,15 @@ jobs:
                 --arg hash "${{ github.sha }}" \
                 --arg repo "${{ github.server_url }}/${{ github.repository }}" \
                 --arg release "${{ github.server_url }}/${{ github.repository }}/releases/download/${{ inputs.tag }}" \
+                --argjson jsonLatest "$(jq -c -n \
+                  --arg version "${latestVersion}" \
+                  '{"version": $version}' \
+                )" \
                 --argjson categories "$(jq -c -n \
                   '$ARGS.positional' \
                   --args "${inventoryCategories[@]}" \
                 )" \
-                '{"tag": $tag, "version": $version, "git-hash": $hash, "repository-url": $repo, "release-url": $release, "categories": $categories}' \
+                '{"tag": $tag, "version": $version, "git-hash": $hash, "repository-url": $repo, "release-url": $release, "categories": $categories, "latest": $jsonLatest}' \
               )" \
               '{"version": 1.0, "timestamp": $date, "meta": $jsonMeta, "files": {}}'
             )
@@ -577,7 +600,7 @@ jobs:
             if [[ -n "${downloadedArtifacts[$artifact]}" ]]; then
               printf "  downloading artifact '%s' ... ${ANSI_LIGHT_YELLOW}[SKIPPED]${ANSI_NOCOLOR}\n" "${artifact}"
             else
-              echo    "  downloading '${artifact}' ... "
+              printf "  downloading '${artifact}' ...\n"
               printf "    gh run download $GITHUB_RUN_ID --dir \"%s\" --name \"%s\" " "${artifact}" "${artifact}"
               gh run download $GITHUB_RUN_ID --dir "${artifact}" --name "${artifact}"
               if [[ $? -eq 0 ]]; then