Changelog is not sorted by date

[myclevorname]

Checklist

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• I will describe the problem with as much detail as possible.

App

Thunderbird for Android

App version

8.1

Where did you get the app from?

F-Droid

Android version

12

Device model

Samsung Galaxy S10e

Steps to reproduce

1. Go to Settings
2. Press About, then Version
3. Scroll down

Expected behavior

Versions should be in order

Actual behavior

Version 8.2b2 and 8.2b3 are in the wrong order

Bonus issue too small to be its own issue: The word "aka" in the Github repo description is misspelled as "fka"

Logs

No response

[sirtao]

Motorola Moto Edge 50 Ultra
Android 14

Same issue on K-9 8.1 from Play Store
Similar issue on Thunderbord 8.1 from F-Droid

screenshots to follow

K-9 (longer changelog for context)

Thunderbird

[cketti]

@kewisch @coreycb The changelog is sorted by version code. The easiest solution I can see is to not include the changelog entries from beta in release.

[kewisch]

Agree, I think the fact that betas were included was a result of merges and not a clear idea of what to do with the changelog. Maybe we should generate the full changelog xml file from the (various) yaml files in the android_beta or android_release subdirectories each time, or we need to adjust/create a merge day script that will clean up the files accordingly.

[wmontwe]

We could use different files for the different build types. At the moment the file is located at app-thunderbird/src/main/res/raw but we could add it to:

• Daily: app-thunderbird/src/daily/res/raw
• Beta: app-thunderbird/src/beta/res/raw
• Release: app-thunderbird/src/release/res/raw

So every variant will only include it's own changelog.

[kewisch]

Given recent discussions I think we should go ahead with per-channel release notes as @wmontwe suggested. Additions will be done in thunderbird-notes anyway, where they are also per-channel.