newver

newver is a Perl program for scanning software webpages for new software versions and reports them.

Building

newver can be ran on both Unix-like and Windows systems.

newver depends on the following:

• perl (>= 5.16)
• HTML::TreeBuilder
• LWP
• LWP::Protocol::https
• Parallel::ForkManager
• URI

Once the aforemntioned dependencies are installed, the following commands can be ran to build and install newver:

make
make test
make install

Consult the documentation for ExtUtils::MakeMaker for information on configuring the build process.

Usage

For more complete documentation on the usage of newver, please consult the newver manual.

man newver
perldoc ./bin/newver

newver reads configuration from an INI file given to it as a command-line argument. The INI file contains a list of programs and various parameters to use when fetching web pages and scanning for new versions. Below is an example scan file:

# Example scan file
# Lines starting with '#' are read as comments and ignored
[noss]
    Version = 2.00
    Page = https://www.cpan.org/authors/id/S/SA/SAMYOUNG/
    # Look for <a> hrefs that match the following
    Match = WWW-Noss-@VERSION@.tar.gz

[perl]
    # Look for current version in Makefile.PL matching the regex
    VersionScan = Makefile.PL -- MIN_PERL_VERSION => '@VERSION@'
    Page = https://github.com/repology/libversion/tags
    Match = @VERSION@.tar.gz

[libversion]
    Version = 3.0.3
    Page = https://github.com/repology/libversion/tags
    Match = @VERSION@.tar.gz

Author

newver was written by Samuel Young samyoung12788@gmail.com.

This project's source can be found in its Codeberg page. Comments and pull requests are welcome.

Copyright

Copyright (C) 2025, Samuel Young.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Artistic License 2.0.