API endpoint that displays the running version of the software

Existing issue

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Product variant

Self-hosted

Area

API & integrations

Problem

I have some monitoring software that wants to be able to query the applications I run to check what version they're running and compare it to the "latest" published version. Right now there is no API endpoint that I can call (or that has published information about) that tells me what version of Reactive Resume is currently running.

Desired outcome

I'm flexible to the actual specifics about how this endpoint is created. The endpoint can be JSON, it can return other information (name of software, etc). This endpoint can authenticated or allow anonymous requests.

There is already a /api/health endpoint. If you want to stick a "version": "x.y.z" in there, that's fine with me. Or you could create a new endpoint (maybe GET /api/about that returns { "service": "reactive-resume", "version": "x.y.z" }).

Side note, /api/health isn't documented in the API reference page.

Alternatives considered

None

Proposed scope

This is just about adding the current version (which is already visible in the UI) to a new/existing API call so that it can be programmatically accessed.

Additional context

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