Technitium DNS: read the version from its GitHub releases

The version came from scraping technitium.com, which failed for some hosts ("Command substitution exited with status 1", 6 runs on 4 hosts in three days) and has no rate-limit fallback. The GitHub release carries the same version and goes through the engine's release lookup.
2026-11-03 17:15:22 +01:00 · 2026-11-03 10:30:00 +01:00
3 changed files with 2 additions and 7 deletions
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ function update_script() {
    $STD apt install -y aspnetcore-runtime-10.0
  fi

-  RELEASE=$(curl -fsSL https://technitium.com/dns/ | grep -oP 'Version \K[\d.]+')
+  RELEASE=$(get_latest_github_release "TechnitiumSoftware/DnsServer")
  if [[ ! -f ~/.technitium || ${RELEASE} != "$(cat ~/.technitium 2>/dev/null)" ]]; then
    fetch_and_deploy_from_url "https://download.technitium.com/dns/DnsServerPortable.tar.gz" /opt/technitium/dns
    echo "${RELEASE}" >~/.technitium
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ setup_deb822_repo \
 $STD apt install -y aspnetcore-runtime-10.0
 msg_ok "Installed Dependencies"

-RELEASE=$(curl -fsSL https://technitium.com/dns/ | grep -oP 'Version \K[\d.]+')
+RELEASE=$(get_latest_github_release "TechnitiumSoftware/DnsServer")
 fetch_and_deploy_from_url "https://download.technitium.com/dns/DnsServerPortable.tar.gz" /opt/technitium/dns
 echo "${RELEASE}" >~/.technitium

@@ -199,11 +199,6 @@ while true; do
  esac
 done

-if command -v pveversion >/dev/null 2>&1; then
-  echo -e "\n🛑  PVE Detected, Wrong Script!\n"
-  exit 232
-fi
-
 if [ "$(dpkg --print-architecture 2>/dev/null)" = "arm64" ]; then
  header_info
  msg_error "This upgrade script targets the amd64 Proxmox repositories and is not supported on ARM64."