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I would like to see software producers provide an API to download the latest release and a list of previous releases. You'd be surprised how difficult it is to automate the installation of (primarily desktop) software (Slack, IntelliJ, etc.)

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I think a Metalink* file would work for this as long as the software can figure out the versioning scheme in use.

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalink

Linux package managers are a beautiful thing.

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