sha256 of archive downloads

[bwbohl]

The download of the current version of oXygen XML Editor offers both MD5 and sha256 checksums. On the other hand, the archive downloads only provide MD5, or am I missing something?
It would be great to have sha256 there, too, e.g. when provisioning Apple computers with homebrew, which deprecated MD5 checksums and only relies on sha256 (even blocks installation of MD5-based checksums since 2015!).

Any chance to get those checksums from your website?

Many thanks,
Benjamin

[adrian]

Hello,

I've logged an improvement request for our website developers to also add a link for the SHA256 checksum to the software archive downloads.
Meanwhile, you can use a quick hack to find the SHA256 checksum by slightly adjusting the MD5 checksum URL.
If you click the MD5 checksum URL you'll get something like this:

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https://archives.oxygenxml.com/Oxygen/Editor/InstData24.1/Windows64/VM/oxygen-64bit.exe_md5sum.html

change the filename suffix in the address bar to _sha256sum.html to find the SHA256 checksum.

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https://archives.oxygenxml.com/Oxygen/Editor/InstData24.1/Windows64/VM/oxygen-64bit.exe_sha256sum.html

Note that this only works for v22.0 and later. Older versions do not have a SHA256 checksum file.

Regards,
Adrian

[bwbohl]

Many thanks Adrian!

[bwbohl]

Follow-up question:
Is there a way to retrieve https://www.oxygenxml.com/rssBuildID.xml by major version?
/benjamin

[adrian]

Hi,

No, the RSS is only available for the latest version.
If you want info for a specific major version, although it's not RSS, you could use the mechanism that Oxygen's "Check for new version" uses.
There's a https://www.oxygenxml.com/allVersions.xml file that maps each major version to a build info file of the latest minor version.
e.g.
<version number="23" build-file="https://www.oxygenxml.com/buildId_23_1.xml"/>
This buildId file lists all builds and their bugfixes for that version. You still need a CSS to make it look "pretty", which unfortunately we do not have, but it shouldn't be very difficult to create one.

Regards,
Adrian

[bwbohl]

Great, many thanks!

/Benjamin

[bwbohl]

Apparently the buildpage for 24.1 (https://www.oxygenxml.com/buildId_24_1.xml) doesn't list the latest build 2022110312.

What I'm trying to achieve for a given major release, to get a combination of the latest minor version and build id. Is there any place you can imagine that would fit my needs with a single URL request and regex?

/Benjamin

[adrian]

Hi,

Apparently the buildpage for 24.1 (https://www.oxygenxml.com/buildId_24_1.xml) doesn't list the latest build 2022110312.

This is actually the place to go for what you want, but it happened to have a mistake for v24.1. Not sure when that broke for v24.1. Most checks are for the latest version builds. But I think that v24.1 build was released after the v25.0 release.
I have reported the issue to our website developers and they have already resolved it.

The alternative would be the HTML pages:
https://www.oxygenxml.com/build_history_24_1.html
But the only aggregation for these is the software archive downloads page:
https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_editor/so ... ditor.html

Regards,
Adrian