"New release available" notification

[sadortun]

New Feature / Enhancement Checklist

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Current Limitation

Feature / Enhancement Description

When a new dashboard is released, it would be awesome if it could be shown somewhere to remind users they can update.

Maybe in the console ? Or in the UI somewhere?

Example Use Case

Alternatives / Workarounds

3rd Party References

[parse-github-assistant]

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[patelmilanun]

Do we want notification of only stable release? Or the beta and alpha one also? I will implement it in the console with some beautiful text done with css. Like

[mtrezza]

I think the idea was to display the notification within the dashboard itself? Not sure if that makes sense. @sadortun ?

[sadortun]

It would be better in the dashboard itself, but if it's visible in the console that's great too!

[mtrezza]

What is the purpose of the notification / who is its audience? I think that will help us to determine how to implement this.

[sadortun]

The audience would be developers like me who just realized I didn't update the Dashboard in something like 2 years 🤡

Lot of new features/fixes I was missing 💪

[mtrezza]

Then maybe we could add it to the "App Settings" section. In future versions we may implement a way to hide that section for certain dashboard users, so a dev user could enable that, but an end-user would not be bothered by it. I think however that even for a dev user it should not be permanently visible when using the dashboard, and it should only notify about stable releases, no pre-releases.

[patelmilanun]

@mtrezza do we have a way to get current version of parse dashboard in code?

[mtrezza]

See how Parse Server exposes its current version in Parse.Server.version.