chenhg5/cc-connect · error

no release found

Error message

no release found

What it means

fetchLatestStableRelease discovers the latest stable version purely from the Location header of a 302 redirect (redirects are disabled). This error means the redirect response carried no Location header, so the latest tag could not be determined.

Source

Thrown at cmd/cc-connect/update.go:278

	}

	// Fallback: follow redirect from /releases/latest to extract tag
	latestURL := "https://github.com/" + githubRepo + "/releases/latest"
	noRedirect := &http.Client{
		Timeout: 15 * time.Second,
		CheckRedirect: func(req *http.Request, via []*http.Request) error {
			return http.ErrUseLastResponse
		},
	}
	resp2, err := noRedirect.Get(latestURL)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("request failed: %w", err)
	}
	defer resp2.Body.Close()

	loc := resp2.Header.Get("Location")
	if loc == "" {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("no release found")
	}
	parts := strings.Split(loc, "/tag/")
	if len(parts) != 2 {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("unexpected redirect: %s", loc)
	}
	return &githubRelease{TagName: parts[1], HTMLURL: loc}, nil
}

func binaryAssetName(tag string) string {
	goos := runtime.GOOS
	goarch := runtime.GOARCH
	name := fmt.Sprintf("cc-connect-%s-%s-%s", tag, goos, goarch)
	if goos == "windows" {
		name += ".exe"
	}
	return name
}

View on GitHub (pinned to 4000b2338a)

Solutions

1. Confirm the repo has at least one published release (a 404 from /releases/latest means zero releases)
2. Bypass any intercepting proxy that may strip Location headers (test with curl -v and look for the 302 + Location line)
3. Fall back to the /releases list endpoint (fetchLatestPreRelease path) which returns tags in the JSON body instead of headers
4. Check repo visibility/token — a private repo without credentials yields no redirect

Example fix

// before
loc := resp2.Header.Get("Location")
if loc == "" {
    return nil, fmt.Errorf("no release found")
}
// after
loc := resp2.Header.Get("Location")
if loc == "" {
    return nil, fmt.Errorf("no release found (HTTP %d, no Location header)", resp2.StatusCode)
}

// check the latest-release URL returns a 302 with Location before parsing:
client := &http.Client{CheckRedirect: func(*http.Request, []*http.Request) error { return http.ErrUseLastResponse }}
resp, err := client.Get("https://github.com/<owner>/<repo>/releases/latest")
if err == nil && resp.StatusCode == 404 {
    return errors.New("repo has no latest release (404)")
}

// Go: fall back to the releases list endpoint when the redirect probe fails
rel, err := fetchLatestStableRelease()
if err != nil {
    if strings.Contains(err.Error(), "no release found") {
        rel, err = fetchLatestPreRelease() // JSON body carries the tag
    }
    if err != nil { return err }
}

When it happens

Trigger: resp2.Header.Get("Location") is "": the server answered without a redirect (e.g. 200 page or 404 instead of 302), typically because /releases/latest has nothing to redirect to.

Common situations: Repository has no published releases (GitHub returns 404 without Location); a transparent proxy strips or rewrites the 302; repo is private and returns 404 without credentials; GitHub endpoint behavior differs from expected.

Related errors

• unexpected redirect: %s
• request failed: %w
• GitHub API returned HTTP %d
• no releases found
• parse releases: %w

AI-assisted analysis of chenhg5/cc-connect@4000b2338a (2026-09-06). Data as JSON: /api/errors/fe672a3731dc502a. Report an issue: GitHub.