The code was previously looking at the /api/updates endpoint on the register.cockroachdb.com server. However, that endpoint returns Cloud Only releases, which cannot be downloaded from binaries.cockroachdb.com.
Now we use the releases list maintained by the docs team, which lets us filter out undesired releases.
fixes https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach-go/issues/174
The code was previously looking at the /api/updates endpoint on the register.cockroachdb.com server. However, that endpoint returns Cloud Only releases, which cannot be downloaded from binaries.cockroachdb.com.
Now we use the releases list maintained by the docs team, which lets us filter out undesired releases.