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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon JuliaLang

"Older Releases" page seems pretty out of date

Open quinnj opened this issue 3 years ago • 6 comments

Page: https://julialang.org/downloads/oldreleases/

Latest "old" release listed is 1.5.4.

quinnj avatar Jul 15 '22 14:07 quinnj

Well, 1.6 is the current LTS, and 1.7 is the current stable release, so it wouldn't make sense to list 1.6 or 1.7 on that page.

DilumAluthge avatar Jul 15 '22 14:07 DilumAluthge

I had someone expecting to find the 1.7.1 or 1.7.2 releases there. But maybe we dont' really make those available publicly?

quinnj avatar Jul 15 '22 15:07 quinnj

Ah, good point. I guess we don't list old patch releases on that page just to save space?

The "correct" way to get the URL would be to parse the https://julialang-s3.julialang.org/bin/versions.json file. All of the old releases are listed in that file.

But it would be nice to find a way to list them somewhere on the website in a compact/concise way.

DilumAluthge avatar Jul 15 '22 16:07 DilumAluthge

A simple fix is to just mention that this page does not have all the patch releases, but details for those are available in versions.json.

ViralBShah avatar Jul 17 '22 23:07 ViralBShah

It should be possible to automatically generate some static HTML based on versions.json for inclusion on that page.

ararslan avatar Jul 18 '22 15:07 ararslan

Until then, linking to the json file at least provides people with the information.

ViralBShah avatar Jul 18 '22 16:07 ViralBShah