Proposal for update info on System page

For Developers
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We all know the reasons why auto updating is impossible, but it is possible that one line of info is displayed for
"Current Stable Release " in Status>System

wget --quiet https://openwrt.org/ -O-| grep "Current Stable"|cut -d\> -f2|cut -d\< -f1

And of course, the command only executes when the page is accessed

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By default the router does not have https support

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It`s no need

wget --quiet http://openwrt.org/ -O-| grep "Current Stable"|cut -d\> -f2|cut -d\< -f1

give the same resuld

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This should be on a button, so visiting a page does not always trigger a connection immediately.

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Completely agree

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> We all know the reasons why auto updating is impossible
Oh really ? https://peertube.video/videos/watch/8417d691-80f5-4c73-b3c9-652d61918fa3
pull request: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/1310

> but it is possible that one line of info is displayed for
>"Current Stable Release " in Status>System

does not work out of the box:

root@LEDE:~# wget http://openwrt.org
Downloading 'http://openwrt.org'
Connecting to 139.59.209.225:80
Failed to redirect to / on openwrt.org
root@LEDE:~#

After installing libustream-mbedtls:

root@LEDE:~# wget http://openwrt.org
Downloading 'http://openwrt.org'
Connecting to 139.59.209.225:80
Redirected to / on openwrt.org
Writing to 'index.html'

Download completed (27061 bytes)
root@LEDE:~#

You can drop the cuts, they are not needed. Also you would have to silence the error messages by redirecting them to /dev/null.

wget -q http://openwrt.org -O- 2>/dev/null | grep -o "Current Stable[^<]*"

A better way would be (although it skips release candidates):

wget -q -O- http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases 2>/dev/null | awk '{RS=">|<"}/^[0-9\.]{7,}$/{v=$0}END{print v}'