Only a tiny fraction of the commits end up being described in NEWS.md, as you might guess from the fact that there are over 20,000 commits to julia and only 300 bulleted items in NEWS.md (many of which are links). We do try to make sure the big-ticket items end up in NEWS.md.
Unfortunately, there are several challenges to implementing your suggestion. The commits are first made to master for release with 0.4; those may come with additions to NEWS.md in the 0.4 section, or the NEWS entry may come much later (e.g., as we prepare 0.4 for release). Commits get backported to 0.3 at varying times, and may not grab NEWS commits if those came separately. Given the organic nature of this process, it's understandable that no one goes to the effort to manually edit NEWS.md for point releases. Of course, if someone wants to step up and take that job on, that would be great. Best, --Tim On Saturday, January 10, 2015 05:24:38 PM [email protected] wrote: > Is there anything preventing julialang/julia/NEWS.md from splitting out > changes by build number (i.e. 0.3.4 and 0.3.5 have separate subsections)? I > assume most (all?) the changes are being logged anyway. > > On Saturday, 10 January 2015 10:29:12 UTC+11, Elliot Saba wrote: > > Amazing when we can copy numbers from one computer to another properly, > > isn't it? > > -E > > > > On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 3:27 PM, <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Now matches the tagged commit 'n all. > >> Thanks > >> Lex > >> > >> On Saturday, January 10, 2015 at 9:19:35 AM UTC+10, Elliot Saba wrote: > >>> We noticed that as well > >>> <https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/commit/a05f87b79ad62beb033817fdfdefa > >>> 270c9557aaf>. An `apt-get update && apt-get upgrade` should fix it. > >>> -E > >>> > >>> On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 3:15 PM, cdm <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> yeah ... > >>>> > >>>> that parenthetical has > >>>> been static since at > >>>> least version 0.3.3 > >>>> > >>>> curious ... > >>>> > >>>> On Friday, January 9, 2015 at 3:06:29 PM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote: > >>>>> Thank you all the people who bring these updates. > >>>>> > >>>>> One question, the versioninfo() for theJulia release on the Ubuntu PPA > >>>>> says: > >>>>> > >>>>> Version 0.3.5 > >>>>> Commit 21d5433* (2014-10-21 20:18 UTC) > >>>>> > >>>>> The commit and date/time hasn't changed. > >>>>> > >>>>> Cheers > >>>>> Lex > >>>>> > >>>>> On Saturday, January 10, 2015 at 5:11:13 AM UTC+10, Elliot Saba wrote: > >>>>>> Hello all! The latest bugfix release of the 0.3.x Julia line has > >>>>>> been released. Binaries are available from the usual place > >>>>>> <http://julialang.org/downloads/>, and as is typical with such > >>>>>> things, please report all issues to either the issue tracker > >>>>>> <https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues>, or email this list. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> As this is a bugfix release, there are not too many new big-item > >>>>>> features to announce, but if you are interested in the bugs fixed > >>>>>> since > >>>>>> 0.3.4, this commit log > >>>>>> <https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/compare/v0.3.4...v0.3.5> should > >>>>>> give you an idea of the effort put in by our team of backporters. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> This is a recommended upgrade for anyone using any of the previous > >>>>>> 0.3.x releases, and should act as a drop-in replacement for any of > >>>>>> the > >>>>>> 0.3.x line. We would like to get feedback if someone has a correctly > >>>>>> working program that doesn't work after this upgrade. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Happy Hacking, > >>>>>> -E
