Feature Request: Improve changelog usability for older versions

[hozza]

User stories

• When I have an older version of a container running e.g. tag v0.9.1 (latest is v0.11.1 for example)
• I'd love to look at the "container image overview" page, and see more than 1 version worth of release notes. e.g. current tag is v0.11.1 so only the v0.11.0->v0.11.1 release notes are shown.
• Showing more versions of release notes would allow me to make a more informed decision about updating/breaking changes. e.g. v0.10.5 may have a breaking config change that I wouldn't see.

Feature description

Ideally Cupdate could pull down all release notes for all version between the current version and the latest version, rather than just the latest one.

If that's hard to do, even a link to the more human readable release notes page would be nice. Currently under the latest version of release notes, you see something like "Full Changelog: v0.11.0...v0.11.1" clicking this link takes you to the actual commits within that version range, but a better link would be to the actual releases page, we we can see the changelog written for users rather than the commits. e.g. https://github.com/henrygd/beszel/releases

[AlexGustafsson]

A lot of Cupdate is oriented around the current and last version, so for now, getting all release notes between the two versions will have to wait. I'll keep you posted if I add the support.

Here's a PR to help improve the current UI by adding a link to the links card and a link directly to the header of the release notes card: #279

You should be able to try it out shortly by using the pr-279 image tag.

[AlexGustafsson]

Also, worth noting, the entire contents of the card is from the project's release notes. Many do add a link to the full changelog. Cupdate won't strip it away.

For UI visibility / transparency I don't think the current UI can be extended all that much by adding something before or after the release notes within the card itself. It would be more difficult to tell what is Cupdate and what is from the project's author.

[mcdoubleyou]

I wanted to request the option to see release notes.
But it looks like this is already possible - but how?
In best case every from my version to the last.
Thx

[AlexGustafsson]

@mcdoubleyou release notes are available if:

• The image can be identified to belong to a GitHub repository. I.e. one of:
  1. The image is hosted on ghcr.io
  2. The image author has set the correct metadata (see OCI annotations)
• The new version/tag corresponds to a GitHub release (e.g. a semantic version, likely not "latest")