GitHub Action
Get Latest Language Versions
This action was inspired by latest-python-versions
This action will fetch up-to-date data on the latest version(s) available on Github Actions for a given set of languages. It does this by first identifying the latest release (if the version source is in GitHub), and then extracting the information from the versions file of that latest release.
The reason behind this, if that most people will pin their action to the latest release instead of main or master, but developers can push new code into master which causes the action to fail.
If you wish to continue using the head of main or master, then we have added a new option 'use-head' which will do this instead.
| Language | GitHub Action | Version Source |
|---|---|---|
| Go | setup-go | go-versions |
| Node / NodeJS | setup-node | node-versions |
| Perl | setup-perl | perl-versions |
| PHP | setup-php | php-versions |
| Python | setup-python | python-versions |
| Ruby | setup-ruby | ruby-versions |
| Terraform | setup-terraform | terraform-versions |
If you're already running tests on multiple versions of a language, this action will allow you to replace your static matrix definitions with dynamic ones. It will also allow you to define a specific version if you are running a single version of a language.
To use the action, simply throw this into one of your workflows
- uses: ActionsToolbox/get-language-versions@master
id: get-versions
with:
language: "python"
min-version: 3.7 # not required - defaults to "EOL"
max-version: 3.10 # not required - defaults to latest
max-versions: 0 # not required - defaults to latest
include-prereleases: true # not required - defaults to false
highest-only: true # not required - defaults to false
remove-patch-version: true # not required - defaults to falseThe action produces an output that can be accessed using:
${{ steps.get-versions.outputs.latest-versions }}| Parameters | Required | Default | Options |
|---|---|---|---|
| language | Yes | Go, Node, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby or Terraform. | |
| min-version | No | "EOL" | semver, "EOL" or "ALL" |
| max-version | No | "latest" | semver or "latest" |
| max-versions | No | 0 | 0-N (N is number of versions to return. |
| include-prereleases | No | false | true or false |
| highest-only | No | false | true or false |
| remove-patch-version | No | false | true or false |
| use-head | No | false | true or false |
See examples below for recommended usage.
This example will return a list of versions of Python from 3.8 up to and including the latest pre-release version. This is then converted into a matrix using fromJson.
name: Test
on: pull_request
jobs:
linting:
...
# Define the job to run before your matrix job
get-versions:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
outputs:
version-matrix: ${{ steps.get-language-versions.outputs.latest-versions }}
steps:
- uses: ActionsToolbox/get-language-versions-action@master
id: get-language-versions
with:
language: "python"
min-version: 3.8
include-prereleases: true
# Then use the output from the previous job in the matrix definition
test:
needs: [linting, get-versions]
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
strategy:
matrix:
version: ${{ fromJson(needs.get-versions.outputs.version-matrix) }}
steps:
- uses: actions/setup-python@v4
with:
python-version: ${{ matrix.version }}This example will return the highest non pre-release version of Python as a string which is then used in setup python for a single job.
name: Test
on: pull_request
jobs:
linting:
...
# Define the job to run before your matrix job
get-versions:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
outputs:
version: ${{ steps.get-language-versions.outputs.latest-versions }}
steps:
- uses: ActionsToolbox/get-language-versions-action@master
id: get-language-versions
with:
language: "python"
highest-only: true
# Then use the output from the previous job in the matrix definition
test:
needs: [linting, get-versions]
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/setup-python@v4
with:
python-version: ${{ needs.get-versions.outputs.version }}