0.12 backport: improvement: using new release endpoint for self-update #5236
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What this PR does / why we need it:
This is a 0.12 backport of #5229. Tests and code are ported over. ARM support was excluded from the backport since its only available from 0.13.12.
Which issue(s) this PR fixes:
Fixes #4893
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