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As per industry standards: v1.4.18 - "Bug fixes and performance improvements" v1.4.17 - "Bug fixes and performance improvements" v1.4.16 - "Bug fixes and per

• Fogest 10mo ago
  Yeah that pretty much describes every big companies release notes. I used to have manual updates in the Google Play store as I enjoyed seeing what was changing. But over time so many companies just started saying things like "Security fixes" and it became a waste of time even bothering to look at them. And sometimes they do actually add a feature... but they'll mention it within the app itself despite the app updates not mentioning it. Or even more funny is how often I'll see a news article talking about the new feature, but then it never even gets mentioned in the release notes anywhere.
• hulitu 10mo ago
  They forget always the "," between "bug" and "fixes".
  • eastbound 10mo ago
    I’m French but… there isn’t a comma, is there? “Fixes” is the main noun, “bug” qualifies the noun. “Fixes of bugs” or “bugfixes” like “weekday” or “storm trooper”. Whether there is a space or not depends on lexicalization, ie whether it feels like one concept. Bugfix is a single concept but “snow patrol” is two; and modern compounds tend to be two separate words, so “bugfix” is only joined in technical environments, maybe not for the broader audience.
    • nofunsir 10mo ago
      Joke lost in translation. He's implying those who engage in these types of nonsense release notes often add bugs instead of fixing them.
• 3rodents 10mo ago
  Perhaps the perfect time to ask: why are release notes like this on the App Store? Are they a required field and this is the default? Does a popular tool use this value?
  • joshgachnang 10mo ago
    They're required for every version release and no one reads them anyway.
    • nofunsir 10mo ago
      I read every single one. Any app that does this gets uninstalled and a nasty letter to software managers.
      • wowczarek 10mo ago
        Well you're no fun, Sir... While I'm morally tempted to do the same, many of the apps guilty of this are the major ones one uses, and as time goes by, I somehow find myself with less and less time on my hands, so I have to be selective with the things I want to do right and proper. Thus, by means of inaction, I indirectly contribute to the circle of enshittification, and there is no stopping it.
  • nofunsir 10mo ago
    Don't underestimate the effort a software developer will put forth to create mountains of complicated automation and scripts if it allows them to be lazy. And they see no issue with this. So why would they see an issue being accountable for yet another agile cycle. Rev number go up!
  • internet2000 10mo ago
    The real answer is this: https://www.reddit.com/r/iOSProgramming/comments/1efubql/im_tired_of_writing_whats_new_in_all_languages_in/ https://www.reddit.com/r/iOSProgramming/comments/1efubql/im_... Not only nobody reads them, but Apple forces you to translate them into languages even less than nobody read. It'd be an improvement if they only required English text.
• nofunsir 10mo ago
  This should be illegal if auto-updates are enabled or eventual updates are forced. Not joking. Nowhere else in society do we allow such self-serving laziness and unethical negligence (looking at you, purposely destroying backwards compatibility of APIs) at a professional level. Most other professions have steep legal consequences if they hide their actions or inactions.
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