What's happened to jq release 1.6?

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Describe the bug

When visiting https://github.com/stedolan/jq/releases, the jq project page states that jq release 1.5, dated 2015, is the latest release.

Why has jq version 1.6 been removed? Was it accidental?

To Reproduce

Visit https://github.com/stedolan/jq/releases and look for the 1.6 release.

Expected behavior

jq 1.6 should be listed as the latest release.

Environment (please complete the following information):

  • All environments

Additional context

This change breaks tooling, such as asdf (specifically, the asdf-jq plugin), which downloads the jq release from GitHub.

According to archive.org, release 1.6 was still there on 2022-03-26: https://web.archive.org/web/20220326070241/https://github.com/stedolan/jq/releases