Link to Announcements post from GitHub releases 'release notes'

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Use case or problem

Currently when a new release is made on https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-releases/releases I need to manually come across to https://forum.obsidian.md/c/announcements/13 and find the corresponding post.

Proposed solution

If the appropriate https://forum.obsidian.md/c/announcements/13 post was linked directly from the GitHub releases ‘release notes’, that would reduce the steps required to find these and improve UX. Even if it was just a static link to https://forum.obsidian.md/c/announcements/13, that would be a decent improvement over the current situation.

eg. “Release notes can be found at https://forum.obsidian.md/c/announcements/13”

Current workaround (optional)

Manually finding the related release notes.

Related feature requests (optional)

N/A

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You can click on release notes in settings->About.

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Yup, I know how to do it from within the app. But as a developer I live within GitHub, and so get notified about new releases/etc there as part of my daily workflow. Having access to the link from the release notes/changelog from the releases page is sort of best practice in that regard.

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yeah, but we use github as backend. Not as consumer facing distribution.

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Yet by nature of it being a public facing backend, there are going to be technically minded users who will benefit from the change. And for the effort of adding just a single static link to the ‘announcements’ category in the generated release notes when a new version is release, it would address this category of users, while requiring almost zero dev/etc on the Obsidian team.

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I’ll try to remember to add a link next time we do releases! :smiley:

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Thank you! It’s been really helpful :slight_smile:

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