Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Add date to release notes
From: Graham Bloice <graham.bloice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 10:09:03 +0100
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> From: wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wireshark-dev-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Evan Huus
> Sent: 17 October 2012 17:57
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> Subject: [Wireshark-dev] Add date to release notes
>
> I recently wanted to find out when a specific point release was made
> available, and I didn't have it installed to check the build time, so I
went to
> the release notes online [1], but that doesn't actually give a date. I
ended up
> having to dig through the wireshark-announce archives to find out. It
would
> be nice if future release notes had a datestamp in them - I expect this
could
> be automated as part of the release process, but I have no idea how?
>
[Graham Bloice said]

One way to see release dates is to query the svn repo, e.g.

svn ls -v http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/wireshark/releases/