Verify Checksums API Fails for WP 3.9 with en_CA locale

[shooper]

Attempting to verify checksum values of WordPress core version 3.9 running the English Canada (en_CA) locale returns false.

​http://api.wordpress.org/core/checksums/1.0/?version=3.9&locale=en_CA

This was working properly until recently (maybe the last week or two?) - used in a deployment script that verifies checksums as part of landing test.

[dd32]

It looks like the en_CA team has ​removed their older releases so there's no checksums to return for en_CA 3.9.

[netweb]

Replying to dd32:

It looks like the en_CA team has ​removed their older releases so there's no checksums to return for en_CA 3.9.

That would be it, @thee17 would be able to confirm they were manually removed

These all work as expected:
​https://api.wordpress.org/core/checksums/1.0/?version=4.0&locale=en_CA
​https://api.wordpress.org/core/checksums/1.0/?version=4.1&locale=en_CA
​https://api.wordpress.org/core/checksums/1.0/?version=4.2&locale=en_CA
​https://api.wordpress.org/core/checksums/1.0/?version=4.3&locale=en_CA

Likewise these return false:
​https://api.wordpress.org/core/checksums/1.0/?version=3.6&locale=en_CA
​https://api.wordpress.org/core/checksums/1.0/?version=3.7&locale=en_CA
​https://api.wordpress.org/core/checksums/1.0/?version=3.8&locale=en_CA

[netweb]

Grrr.... Didn't mean to add close, possibly later, but not yet ;)

[dd32]

I however, am going to mark it closed :)

The releases were removed, that means there's no checksums available for those releases anymore.
The checksum API is for usage by WordPress, which expects that there may be no checksums available, any other clients should do the same.

For now, although you're free to use the API as you please, it's only available for currently available releases.

[shooper]

@dd32 @netweb Thanks for looking into this for me. Just another reason this client needs to upgrade their WP install ;)

Cheers.