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Release docs visibility, completeness #11886

Open l0b0 opened 1 week ago

l0b0 commented 1 week ago

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As a Nix and Renovate user, I am frustrated when Nix Docker image update merge requests show up with no useful information about what changed. There's no indication whether the update is important (such as a security fix), or how to find more information. A quick search of the repo main page shows no relevant hits for words like "release" and "change".

I was able to find some release information like this:

  1. Search for "nix versions" - the only relevant hit on the first screen seems to be a third party one from 2020.
  2. Search for "nix releases" - shows a link to the 2.22 release as the first hit. It looks like the "latest" link is not being prioritised by search engines.
  3. Manually replace "2.22" in the URL with "latest" on a whim, which redirects to the latest index where I can find the link to the latest release.
  4. Notice that there doesn't seem to be any release notes for patch releases, such as 2.25.2.

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