WTH aren't the frontend release notes encorporated in the public Core release notes

Month of "What the heck?!"
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Currently, there’s clear release notes of what has changed. I often scan over them before updating because I find it interesting.

However, as you can see below, the frontend is listed as just another dependency library.

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But the frontend is a main component of the HomeAssistant product/platform, so I should be able to right away read it’s changelog as well. The “Update frontend to 20241127.8” should be removed, and instead (possibly always at the bottom) there should be the changes from the previous included frontend to the one that is now included. In this case, it should contain

  • Fix landingpage, supervisor release permission (@wendevlin - #23223)
  • Use list item for integration quality scale (@piitaya - #23236)
  • Add missing translations to voice wizard (@bramkragten - #23278)
  • Improve piper audio generation (@balloob - #23281)
  • …
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Maybe because the frontend, like supervisor or HAOS doesnt have the same release cycle than core.
See the dates; those doesnt match with the monthly main release of core.

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It indeed has a different release cycle. But where e.g. HAOS does have it’s own update mechanism (and it’s changelog is linked to in the update modal), the frontend is update together with the Core.

So if you’re interested in the frontend changelog, you’d have to click on the changelog link on the Core update modal, then navigate to the previous version so see what version was included there, then go to the frontend repo and check for the diff between the previously included and newly included version.

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Just a guess - may be because Frontend is a component which may be separately updated for some type of installation?