How to get the latest Codeigniter release?

Easy peasy snippet:

Place this on your controller

// Get current version
        $currentVersion = \CodeIgniter\CodeIgniter::CI_VERSION;

        // Get latest version from GitHub API
        $latestVersion = null;
        $context = stream_context_create(['http' => ['user_agent' => 'CI-Version-Checker']]);
        $json = @file_get_contents('https://api.github.com/repos/codeigniter4/CodeIgniter4/releases/latest', false, $context);
        if ($json) {
            $data = json_decode($json, true);
            if (isset($data['tag_name'])) {
                $latestVersion = ltrim($data['tag_name'], 'v');
            }
        }

Place this on your view

<div class="container">
    <div class="row">
        <div class="col-md-12 text-center">
            CI version in use: <strong><?= esc($ciVersion) ?></strong>
            <?php if ($latestVersion): ?>
                | Latest CI release: <strong><?= esc($latestVersion) ?></strong>
            <?php endif; ?>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

Are you concerned that a request to GH on each user request is not the best? You are smart. Modify this to run a command with cron every day/ week/ whatever to check this on the background and update a file or db entry with the updated value.

Amazing. Beautiful. Meaningful. Rejoice.