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# Github Releases

## Introduction

In today's world of software development it would be impossible to create anything without open source software and packages or implementations from third party implementations (including us!). Whichever language you are using, you will find third party packages used for achieving the developers goal. Why invent the wheel twice? Time, Money and more complex systems are forcing us to use other developers code and that is good.

This does not come without issues and concerns. Can we trust the code? How do we keep it updated? Does it has bugs? How about new features? These are all questions the development department needs to answer when using third party code. We want to help to make sure you are always **using the latest version**.

With **Github Releases** you can set alerts on new releases from the software you are using. E.g. you are using a python package and want to know when there is a new version that fixes a bug or security problem? You can subscribe to new updates and we will inform you via various channels. 

Let's say you want to monitor for new releases of **fastapi**.

## Step 1

Find the repository of **fastapi** on [github.com](http://github.com).

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Once you find the repository you want to receive alerts, copy the URL to the repository. In our case this is **<https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi>**.

## Step 2

Head over to the [dashboard](https://ambersignals.com/dashboard) to create a new service with "**Github Releases**".

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The **description** should be something that you can identify this. The **address** is the URL which we found in Step 1.&#x20;

Once selected the notification channel you can save it with confirming on "**Add**". Now we will keep you informed when a new release is created.

Stay informed and know about new features when they are available.


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