The app doesn't announce each new version unless you have add-ons that are incompatible with the new version (in which case you get a dialog telling you so), la

The app doesn't announce each new version unless you have add-ons that are incompatible with the new version (in which case you get a dialog telling you so), last I checked. It does tell you that it's applying an update when you do the update startup, so far. That's likely to go away as well.