[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #31367: Conditional content on about.php for minor updates

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#31367: Conditional content on about.php for minor updates
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 Reporter:  krogsgard           |      Owner:
     Type:  enhancement         |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal              |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Upgrade/Install     |    Version:  4.1
 Severity:  normal              |   Keywords:
  Focuses:  ui, administration  |
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 When you update WordPress after a minor update, it redirects to the
 `about.php` page, which is geared toward the major version only.

 I believe this can be confusing when updating to a minor version.

 I don't know the best way to move forward, but it seems to me that a
 logical flow for conditional content would be to check if the current
 version is a minor version, and if the site is being updated from within
 the same major version (4.1 to 4.1.1 or 4.1.1 to 4.1.2, etc), and then
 show conditional content with notes about the minor version within the
 about page -- likely above or in addition to the regular about page for
 that major version.

 I think this would be good for informing people about the minor version.
 To my knowledge, we don't do anything like this, but we do point people
 straight to the about page no matter if they were already on that major
 version or not.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/31367>
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