Have updated changelog in alpha/beta versions

[brishtibheja]

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Currently, the changelog doesn't show you changes for the last stable version if you're on alpha/beta ver.

For example, if you're on 2.21 alpha/beta and you switch to 2.22 alpha beta, you don't get the changelog for 2.21 stable versions.

Is there any chance this can change? I like the overview of changes (the writing is fire btw) and it's useful if there's a good change I've missed somewhere.

[david-allison]

There is no changelog for 2.21 (other than my reddit post)

Changelogs are typically the last thing that we do before a release.

It would be nice to improve this, but I don't feel we have capacity

[brishtibheja]

I wasn't talking about 2.21 in particular. There's a changelog for 2.20 and even that doesn't appear in 2.21 alpha versions.

@david-allison I think you misunderstood what I was saying? The issue is the changelog for a certain x version not appearing in x+1 alpha versions even though the changelog is there in x versions of the app.

This has been a long time issue and I think has to do with how the releases are made.

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[mikehardy]

this does seem doable - that is, there is no reason why the current changelog from whatever the latest stable version is can't be included in the next alpha/beta series, ideally with a header on top that has the name of the current alpha (or beta) with a "vX.Y.Z Changelog coming soon, in the meantime, here's all the exciting changes from the last stable version:" (or something)

I would approach this by having the release script - just render the changelog from main on the ankiddroiddocs repo every time, only checking for the current version on public versions and putting that header in on non-public versions

Seems imminently doable, just a change to release.sh