Open Bug 1277874 Opened 8 years ago Updated 5 months ago

Add a link from current release notes to list of all release notes

Categories

(www.mozilla.org :: Release notes, enhancement)

Product:
www.mozilla.org
Component:
Release notes
Version:
Production
Platform:
All
Other
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: nachtigall, Unassigned)

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Details

:: Developer Documentation Request Request Type: Correction Gecko Version: unspecified Technical Contact: :: Details I use the Firefox Developer Editon. I was interested what's new in the upcoming 49 release. I know that I can get to the release notes by going to [?] help > About Firefox > What's new link and landed at https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/48.0a2/releasenotes/ and very surely I could browse to the former or later release notes from their. So I thought... But no. On https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/48.0a2/releasenotes/ there is no way to get to the release notes of of upcoming or past releases. At first, I thought, that "Other releases" it is, but "other" seems to be meant as "Other platform". What I looked for was https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases eventually. Can you please add a "ALL RELEASES" link from the https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/XXX/releasenotes/ to https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases.
Assignee: nobody → mitchell
Component: Mozilla Platform → Miscellaneous
Product: Developer Documentation → mozilla.org
Version: unspecified → other
Assignee: mitchell → nobody
Severity: normal → enhancement
Component: Miscellaneous → Release notes
Priority: P5 → --
Product: mozilla.org → www.mozilla.org
Version: other → Production

I have a similar wish, but for users : I'd really like to see an easily accessible link to the page referencing all user Release Notes (RN) on the RN page !
So a link to this page : https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/releases. Right now, it's buried deep down the page, and called "All Firefox for Desktop Releases" (moreover without the "Notes" which is misleading !).

Possible solutions, adding the link to the "See what’s new in Firefox!" banner, like :

  • Release Notes tell you [...] => <a href="$URL">Release Notes</a> tell you [...],
  • or at the end of the sentence : You can find all/old Release Notes <a href="$URL">here</a>.

And while we're at it, https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases could also be linked somewhere more easily on the RN page !

Thanks

I just ran into the same issue, but for Firefox for Android, and I'm not sure if the page I want actually exists. (It seems fixed for desktop, though.)

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-release-notes-whats-new-and-known-issues
has links to:

Each of these forwards to the notes for the latest respective (stable?) release, and all of those pages link to https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/releases/ as "All Firefox for Desktop Releases", and indeed the links on that page point to desktop release notes.

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