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Settings Updater: Add link to release notes for upcoming release

  • /e/ version: 1.15s
  • Device model(s): Fairphone 4

Summary

In the settings -> Updater -> dropdown menu for "Available updates", add a link to the release notes for the available update.

Description

What is the current behavior?

For the upcoming release, there are links to the update package and option to start update. None of these tell the user what the next release contains.

During the update, the upcoming release has options "Export update" and "Copy URL" but not "Release notes".

Release notes ARE available for the version that is already installed.

See screenshots.

What is the improved behavior?

Add a link to release notes for the next available version.

What does it bring?

It will allow users to more easily see what the next release improves before installing it.

For many users (such as myself), release notes are valuable before the install. After it has been installed, I care less, because it doesn't impact the decision to upgrade or not.

Mock-ups

See the screenshot. Keep it exactly as is, just add a "Show release notes" option to the dropdown for the next available update.

Examples

Now, user needs to go to release notes for the currently installed version, navigate up one level in the browser, and find the correct version in the list that matches the name in the updater for "Available update".

If add release notes to available update, user is taken directly to the relevant release notes and can decide easier whether to update or not.

Validation

  1. In Settings, Updater, wait for an available update to become available.

2 Once it's available, click the dropdown menu and see "Show release notes" option.

  1. "Show release notes" option takes user to the correct release page for the version that is about to be installed.