Latest JFrog CLI version check no longer works

[stephanvantienen-keen]

Describe the bug

When running the JFrog CLI the check that runs initially to see if there is a newer version no longer works.

Current behavior

Running JFrog CLI with CI set to True gives the following output:
[🟠Warn] failed while trying to check latest JFrog CLI version: json: unknown field "url"

For version v2.87.0 this output was given every time. For version v2.89.0 it is only given once per 6 hours.

Due to this the check for a newer version never works as expected.

Reproduction steps

• Download the current (v.2.89.0) JFrog CLI - does not matter which platform, I tested it on Windows and Linux.
• Configure an Artifactory server
• Set environment variable CI to TRUE to have the JFrog CLI print output to stdout (or else inspect the log file that is created in the next step)
• Run an Artifactory download command (or any other command)
• Observe the output, it contains the warning message:
  [🟠Warn] failed while trying to check latest JFrog CLI version: json: unknown field "url"

Expected behavior

The new version check runs successfully.

JFrog CLI version

v2.89.0

Operating system type and version

windows/amd64 (Windows 11) and windows/amd64 (Ubuntu 24.04)

JFrog Artifactory version

N.A.

JFrog Xray version

N.A.

[stephanvantienen-keen]

Looking at the code the bug seems to have been introduced in commit 95128d4, in the following code:
// Use json.Decoder with DisallowUnknownFields for safer deserialization decoder := json.NewDecoder(bytes.NewReader(body)) decoder.DisallowUnknownFields() if err = decoder.Decode(&githubVersionInfo); err != nil { return
The githubVersionInfo is a gitHubResponse which is defined as:
type githubResponse struct { TagName string json:"tag_name,omitempty" }
If you use the URL that is used to get the version info (https://api.github.com/repos/jfrog/jfrog-cli/releases/latest) directly the output is:
`{
"url": "https://api.github.com/repos/jfrog/jfrog-cli/releases/278947997",
"assets_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/jfrog/jfrog-cli/releases/278947997/assets",
"upload_url": "https://uploads.github.com/repos/jfrog/jfrog-cli/releases/278947997/assets{?name,label}",
"html_url": "https://github.com/jfrog/jfrog-cli/releases/tag/v2.89.0",
"id": 278947997,
"author": {
"login": "vitaliil-jfrog",
"id": 93778055,
"node_id": "U_kgDOBZbwhw",
"avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/93778055?v=4",
"gravatar_id": "",
"url": "https://api.github.com/users/vitaliil-jfrog",
"html_url": "https://github.com/vitaliil-jfrog",
"followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/vitaliil-jfrog/followers",
"following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/vitaliil-jfrog/following{/other_user}",
"gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/vitaliil-jfrog/gists{/gist_id}",
"starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/vitaliil-jfrog/starred{/owner}{/repo}",
"subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/vitaliil-jfrog/subscriptions",
"organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/vitaliil-jfrog/orgs",
"repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/vitaliil-jfrog/repos",
"events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/vitaliil-jfrog/events{/privacy}",
"received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/vitaliil-jfrog/received_events",
"type": "User",
"user_view_type": "public",
"site_admin": false
},
"node_id": "RE_kwDOAnGP4M4QoGid",
"tag_name": "v2.89.0",
"target_commitish": "master",
"name": "2.89.0",
"draft": false,
"immutable": false,
"prerelease": false,
"created_at": "2026-01-21T11:36:44Z",
"updated_at": "2026-01-22T10:47:14Z",
"published_at": "2026-01-22T10:47:14Z",
"assets": [

],
"tarball_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/jfrog/jfrog-cli/tarball/v2.89.0",
"zipball_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/jfrog/jfrog-cli/zipball/v2.89.0",
"body": "\r\n\r\n## What's Changed\r\n### Exciting New Features 🎉\r\n* feature: Automatically set CI VCS properties on uploaded artifacts by @bhanurp in https://github.com/jfrog/jfrog-cli/pull/3309\r\n### Other Changes 📚\r\n* JGC-489 - Fix release by @RemiBou in https://github.com/jfrog/jfrog-cli/pull/3305\r\n* RTDEV-73424 - Set TestReleaseBundleCreationFromMultipleSourcesUsingSp… by @rimapol in https://github.com/jfrog/jfrog-cli/pull/3315\r\n\r\n\r\n**Full Changelog**: v2.88.0...v2.89.0",
"mentions_count": 3
}`
Using the DisallowUnknownFields has the Decode fail.