Releasemonitor is a Site Administrator Module that assists with keeping contributed modules up to date and summarizing their upgrade availability. The Release Monitor reads the current version information of enabled contributed modules from the module.info file if they are available, from CVS/Tag and the CVS $Id$ string. Using cron, it gets the current version information to determine if there are minor or major upgrades available. The Monitor displays this information on a single page and creates watchdog events when an upgrade is available. To make downloading easier, it gives links to the Drupal project page, and the CVS repositories (if appropriate).

The future of releasemonitor is uncertain. Since releasemonitor was first developed, the project release system has been improved, and the update_status and cvs_deploy modules have been released. You should look at both those modules before deciding to use this one.

The monitor currently gets version information from cvs.drupal.org, but future versions whould get this information from the drupal.org project.module. The monitor pulls module information once per day, although this is a configurable option.

To quickly determine your contrib module upgrade availability for the next major release, install this module on your current site and check the warnings at the top of the page. If most/all of your contrib modules are available, then it's time to upgrade your site using the handy download links!

Installation

Copy the module to your module directory and then enable on the admin modules page. View the release status at admin/releases.

Todo

• get information from drupal.org project.module instead of cvs.drupal.org; see http://drupal.org/node/48580
• add email option to notify system administrator when new versions are available
• add support for themes

This module is partially supported by CivicActions.