It's kinda witty actually.
They just load the image:
https://version.gitlab.com/check.png?gitlab_info=eyJ2ZXJzaW9uIjoiNy4xMi4wLWVlIn0=
Onto the help page. As your browser is doing this work (and presumably not
firewalled off the internet) it still works for you.
The garbly goop is a base 64 encoded json blob with your current version.
In the example the value is: {"version":"7.12.0-ee"}
-Geoff
On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 11:11 AM, <ryan.mur...@uni.edu> wrote:
> Our Gitlab server is heavily firewalled off from the internet.
>
> Does anyone know how the update notification in the admin area works? Is
> it using javascript?
>
> I noticed today that it says a new version is out.
>
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