Watch for new tags on GitHub repos

GitHub has an Atom feed for tags so you can subscribe to them with your RSS reader. The format is:

https://github.com/:user/:repo/tags.atom

This is useful for projects that don't use Releases. For example Elixir packages tend to use tags and then release on Hex (which as far as I can tell doesn't have any way to be notified of new releases).

If  the project you're following uses Releases then you can use GitHub's built in 'Watch' feature:

If you like Atom / RSS feeds there are more available on GitHub:

/* Repo releases */

https://github.com/:owner/:repo/releases.atom

/* Repo commits */

https://github.com/:owner/:repo/commits.atom

/* User activity */

https://github.com/:user.atom