diff --git a/.htaccess b/.htaccess
index 13e081a8d4..c40979866f 100644
--- a/.htaccess
+++ b/.htaccess
@@ -35,9 +35,9 @@ Deny from 180.211.180.14
 # With build artifacts in S3, latest_snapshot.txt is a
 # PHP script that generates the right answer, so turn
 # on PHP processing for those files.
-<Files "latest_snapshot.txt">
+<FilesMatch "^latest_(snapshot|release).txt$">
      AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .txt
-</Files>
+</FilesMatch>
 
 ## Comment these rules in if you want to have nice URLs using
 ## $conf['rewrite'] = 1 - not needed for rewrite mode 2
@@ -81,12 +81,14 @@ RewriteRule nightly/(.*)/(latest_snapshot\.txt|.*\.tar\.gz|.*\.tar\.bz2) https:/
 
 # Redirect requests for release artifacts to download.open-mpi.org
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !latest_snapshot.txt$ [NC]
+RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !latest_release.txt$ [NC]
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/\.well-known/acme-challenge/[0-9a-zA-Z_-]+$
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/\.well-known/cpanel-dcv/[0-9a-zA-Z_-]+$
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/\.well-known/pki-validation/[A-F0-9]{32}\.txt(?:\ Comodo\ DCV)?$
 RewriteRule software/ompi/(.*)/downloads/(.*) https://download.open-mpi.org/release/open-mpi/$1/$2 [L,R=301]
 
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !latest_snapshot.txt$ [NC]
+RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !latest_release.txt$ [NC]
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/\.well-known/acme-challenge/[0-9a-zA-Z_-]+$
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/\.well-known/cpanel-dcv/[0-9a-zA-Z_-]+$
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/\.well-known/pki-validation/[A-F0-9]{32}\.txt(?:\ Comodo\ DCV)?$
diff --git a/software/hwloc/current/downloads/latest_release.txt b/software/hwloc/current/downloads/latest_release.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bad6735e8b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/software/hwloc/current/downloads/latest_release.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?php
+
+$topdir = "../../../..";
+include_once("../version.inc");
+include_once("$topdir/includes/downloads.inc");
+
+latest_snapshot_output("hwloc", $s3_prefix, [], $releases);
+?>
diff --git a/software/hwloc/v2.9/downloads/latest_release.txt b/software/hwloc/v2.9/downloads/latest_release.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bad6735e8b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/software/hwloc/v2.9/downloads/latest_release.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?php
+
+$topdir = "../../../..";
+include_once("../version.inc");
+include_once("$topdir/includes/downloads.inc");
+
+latest_snapshot_output("hwloc", $s3_prefix, [], $releases);
+?>