OpenVPN / OpenVPN/openvpn

Notify users about available updates for their client?

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Description

Just wondering the above. GitHub's Watch Releases feature doesn't work because the project has no releases in the GitHub sense. The official OpenVPN download pages RSS feed links to comments only and not the actual releases. This renders staying fully patched extremely difficult. Any ideas?

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Research direction

No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by reviewing the issue's constraints around GitHub Watches and the official download-page RSS feed, then define a concrete notification approach. Done should mean users can reliably learn when a patched client version is available.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Domain
release
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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