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Hi Loeffel, thanks for the suggestion. I agree it would be nice.
Right now the only version history "in one place" I have for my own plugins is inside one of the code files in each. The public version gets spread across individual forum posts. I totally agree that isn't necessarily helpful to users who are looking to upgrade and know what is new without reading through potentially many pages in the forum, particularly if they haven't updated for a while. I know meme has a spoiler containing history in his first post, I am not sure what the other plugin developers do if anything?
Whether this feature could happen is down to whether the other plugin developers are willing/interested in maintaining a change history file for their plugins. Unless someone has a different suggestion, it would perhaps involve adding an attachment of a particular name to their first post (e.g. changelog.txt).
So in particular... meme, user_none, kpw, jackie_w & javanmaar - as current plugin developers what are your thoughts if any? Kovid - you have any ideas too? If the other developers don't see this and respond here I will drop them a PM.
In terms of the plugin updater UI, I guess I could just add a second hyperlink down next to the plugin forum thread one for "Version History" or similar, and have that downloaded into a temp file for launching in your default .txt viewer, by scraping the forum thread like I do to download the zip file.
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