Version and commit info is now generated during autobuilds and can be viewed in the about dialog

Prepared removal of JSON translations from repo to move towards XLIFF-only

backend/app.js

@@ -142,6 +142,14 @@ var validDownloadingAgents = [
 
 const subscription_timeouts = {};
 
+let version_info = null;
+if (fs.existsSync('version.json')) {
+    version_info = fs.readJSONSync('version.json');
+    logger.verbose(`Version info: ${JSON.stringify(version_info, null, 2)}`);
+} else {
+    version_info = {'type': 'N/A', 'tag': 'N/A', 'commit': 'N/A', 'date': 'N/A'};
+}
+
 // don't overwrite config if it already happened.. NOT
 // let alreadyWritten = db.get('configWriteFlag').value();
 let writeConfigMode = process.env.write_ytdl_config;
@@ -932,6 +940,10 @@ app.post('/api/setConfig', optionalJwt, function(req, res) {
     }
 });
 
+app.get('/api/versionInfo', (req, res) => {
+    res.send({version_info: version_info});
+});
+
 app.post('/api/restartServer', optionalJwt, (req, res) => {
     // delayed by a little bit so that the client gets a response
     setTimeout(() => {restartServer()}, 100);