The released.latest.txt provides wrong data for bionic

[Kyrylo Shatskyy]

Our automation is using http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/query/released.latest.txt for discovery released images for testing purpose, however it provides wrong data for 'bionic' at some reason.

Today is 03.09 and the data looks like:
karmic server release 20100826
maverick server release 20120410
hardy server release 20121003
natty server release 20121028
oneiric server release 20130509
raring server release 20140111
quantal server release 20140409
saucy server release 20140709
lucid server release 20150427
utopic server release 20150723
vivid server release 20160203
wily server release 20160715
precise server release 20170502
yakkety server release 20170719
zesty server release 20171208
artful server release 20180706
cosmic server release 20190628
trusty server release 20191107
disco server release 20200115
eoan server release 20200716.1
xenial server release 20200814
bionic server release 20200903
focal server release 20200903

It says that bionic has released an image on 20200903
However there is no image like that by the url http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/bionic/

Here is the latest available:

[DIR] release-20200807/ 08-Aug-2020 07:32 - Released Image
[DIR] release-20200831/ 01-Sep-2020 07:31 - Released Image
[DIR] release-20200901/ 02-Sep-2020 07:31 - Released Image
[DIR] release/ 02-Sep-2020 07:31 - Released Image

where release is a link to 20200901.

[Éric St-Jean (esj)]

thank you filing, looks like there's a small issue here indeed, we'll take a look

[John Chittum (jchittum)]

http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/query/released.latest.txt ( and http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/query/daily.latest.txt ) are only guaranteed to provide the latest serial for ec2 images. For download images, there are separate files available per suite. For bionic, the file is:

http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/query/bionic/server/released-dl.current.txt

You can find these files for every $SUITE by templating the URL

http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/query/$SUITE/server/released-dl.current.txt