Minecraft – Find out the latest version of Minecraft

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Is there a programmatic source for checking what the latest version of Minecraft is?

For example a RSS feed or other URL from an official source that states the latest release version? Ideally without scraping HTML.

Best Answer

mcupdate.tumblr.com, with which you can subscribe to with RSS, seems to reliably report the latest version as the newest post with the title Minecraft [x.x(.x)].

EDIT

I'm slightly drunk, and feeling bashy, so here's a command that will return the latest version of Minecraft:

 curl -s http://mcupdate.tumblr.com/rss | egrep -o -e 'le>Minecraft [0-9]\.[0-9]\.[0-9]|le>Minecraft [0-9]\.[0-9]' | head -1 | egrep -o -e '[0-9]\.[0-9]\.[0-9]|[0-9]\.[0-9]'
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