592011 - Missing Thunderbird 3.1.3 release notes linked from update dialog box

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 584679

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Brion Vibber]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0b4) Gecko/20100818 Firefox/4.0b4
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Thunderbird offered me an update to 3.1.3 today; the update dialog included a "details" link, which normally takes you to the release notes so you know what you're about to install.

This link currently is a 404 error:
http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/3.1.3/releasenotes/


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to 'Apply downloaded update' in Thunderbird
2. Click 'Details' link
3. Browser opens http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/3.1.3/releasenotes/
Actual Results:  
http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/3.1.3/releasenotes/ gives a 404 error.

Expected Results:  
http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/3.1.3/releasenotes/ should contain release notes.

Comment 1

[Brion Vibber]

Note that the welcome screen *after* updating has a different release notes URL, which does work:

http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/3.1.xrc/releasenotes/

Particularly when being offered early beta updates, a working notes link *before* updating would be very much appreciated. :)

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

from IRC

"if the release notes link worked, then i'd know it was a beta release
Aleksej: do you know if the release notes URL in the update dialog is included with the update info from the server, or if it's generated by the currently-installed Thunderbird from the given future version number?
brion_: don't know…
I usually don't use application updates.
I mean, I usually don't give them write permissions."

Comment 3

[[:Aleksej]]

(In reply to comment #2)

To be clear, in that quote, Brion’s messages are:

> "if the release notes link worked, then i'd know it was a beta release
> Aleksej: do you know if the release notes URL in the update dialog is included
> with the update info from the server, or if it's generated by the
> currently-installed Thunderbird from the given future version number?

Comment 4

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

This is a duplicate of bug 584679 which I missed getting resolved for 3.1.3, I'll get it on the radar for the next version though.