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bug #57657: old year in startup message, news file

Submitter:  Hartmut <hardy>
Submitted:  Thu 23 Jan 2020 08:07:25 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  Documentation Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Documentation
Status:  Fixed Assigned to:  siko1056
Originator Name:  Open/Closed:  * Closed
Release:  * 5.1.90 Operating System:  * Any
Fixed Release:  None Planned Release:  None
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Fri 24 Jan 2020 07:14:26 AM UTC, comment #2: 

Even tough one week is left, I went ahead and make the most important changes now without another RC:

https://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/f4b6b170a761

Kai Torben Ohlhus <siko1056>
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Thu 23 Jan 2020 08:27:35 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Confirmed.  Practically no development had taken place on Octave 5.2.0 in 2020.  Thus I avoid the massive 2019 --> 2020 change for all source files.

But in the most important spots regarding the 5.2.0 release, you mentioned two of them, I'll have to add new years and content soon.

Kai Torben Ohlhus <siko1056>
Group Member
Thu 23 Jan 2020 08:07:25 AM UTC, original submission:  

When I install the official Windows installer of the current alpha version 5.1.90 and then start Octave, I see the following startup message:


GNU Octave, version 5.1.90
Copyright (C) 2019 John W. Eaton and others.
This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions.
There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  For details, type 'warranty'.

Octave was configured for "x86_64-w64-mingw32".

Additional information about Octave is available at https://www.octave.org.

Please contribute if you find this software useful.
For more information, visit https://www.octave.org/get-involved.html

Read https://www.octave.org/bugs.html to learn how to submit bug reports.
For information about changes from previous versions, type 'news'.


Shouldn't this read 2020 instead of 2019, since this release is only to come?

Additionally, when I then type "news" I get to see a news file that ONLY talks about the 5.1.0 release, not the one I am acutally using:


>> news
Summary of important user-visible changes for version 5 (2019-02-23):
--------------------------------------------------------------------

### General improvements
 ...


Shouldn't there, at the very top of the NEWS file, be at least a short note of the current Octave version? Maybe only with the information: only small bug fixes since version 5.1.0, maybe a bit more?

Hartmut <hardy>

 

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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2020-01-24 siko1056 StatusIn Progress Fixed
        Open/ClosedOpen Closed
    2020-01-23 mtmiller Release5.1.0 5.1.90
        Summaryold year in startup message, news file (Octave 5.1.90) old year in startup message, news file
    2020-01-23 siko1056 StatusNone In Progress
        Assigned toNone siko1056
        Releaseother 5.1.0

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