Post #4019142

2026-07-22 14:18 UTC

Question to the Homelab Community: how do you stay up to date if there are new releases of open source projects you use? Is there any special tool for it? I mainly use docker for deployment so it would be cool to know when it is time to update. @homelab@fedigroups.social

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@chewie@mammut.gogreenit.net 2026-07-22 20:54

@bjoern@social.sengotta.net @homelab@fedigroups.social I follow as many of the projects that are on Mastodon as possible, as they usually mention when new versions are out, and I have a Mastodon "List" for them to keep them separate. I also use #LibreNMS, and the Linux agent can check apt and show you how many updates there are. The #NetXMS agent also lists when updates are available. Of course, this all depends on you installing the software through the package manager :/ Not sure if that helps?

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@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.social 2026-07-22 14:32

@bjoern@social.sengotta.net @homelab@fedigroups.social I second that Dockhand seems to be a good solution to keep Containers automatically updated. I used Watchtower for years but that's no longer under active development (Their is a fork though I haven't had a closer look at yet). Watchdog had more sophisticated features when it came to pre- and post-update calls I believe. But it does a reasonable job and has a nice Web Interfaces to control multiple agents on remote hosts.

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@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.us 2026-07-23 11:11

@bjoern@social.sengotta.net @homelab@fedigroups.social Self hosted Renovate on GitHub Actions on self-hosted runners

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