Changelog for new versions

[Sethur]

Hi,

not sure if I already asked this but is there a changelog somewhere for new releases of OMERO? The milestone page seems dysfunctional and especially regarding the current vulnerabilities, it would be nice to check what exactly changed in version 5.0.5.

Cheers,

Tristan

[sbesson]

Hi Tristan,

general information about the changes between OMERO versions is detailed in the OMERO version history page of the documentation. The source changelog file used to generate this documentation page is now also bundled with OMERO.server.

For more developer focused information, the Trac and GitHub milestones linked in the released announcement are usually giving extra details on the features/code changes. In the specific case of 5.0.5, it was released to address security vulnerabilities so most of the information is available under this page.

Best,
Sebastien

[Sethur]

Hi Sebastien,

thanks for the info. Have you considered including a more detailed (not necessarily developer based, but more than in the version history) changelog.txt OMERO.server releases? This is an established paxis and would administrators when updating versions.

Cheers,

Tristan

[jmoore]

Hi Tristan,

a quick follow-up: can you point us to which milestone page you think is dysfunctional?

~Josh

P.S. would you like to see something more in https://github.com/openmicroscopy/openmicroscopy/blob/v.5.0.5/history.txt, which gets generated into https://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/omero5/users/history.html and is in the server zip?

[Sethur]

Hi Josh,

I was getting a 404 error when I last tried to view the milestones, apparently that was only me or only temporary, since it works now.

The history.txt is a good start but has very little information. A lot of items are in the form of "Improvement on X", but there is no mention on what actually happened. What I would suggest is, e.g. instead of:

- search improvents

a comment like:

- Advanced search now allows for filtering with X...

etc. Not all points have to be very detailed, especially not the very technical stuff like ICE compatibility updates, but if there are new features or bug fixes on OMERO workflow items, it would be very handy to have a good, detailed list of them with every new version.

Cheers,

Tristan

[jmoore]

Hi Tristan,

I was getting a 404 error when I last tried to view the milestones, apparently that was only me or only temporary, since it works now.

Ah, ok. That was quite likely the downtime for upgrading bash, then.

The history.txt is a good start but has very little information. ... if there are new features or bug fixes on OMERO workflow items, it would be very handy to have a good, detailed list of them with every new version.

Thanks for the clarification.

Cheers,
~Josh.