[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #57657] old year in startup message, news file (Octave 5.1.90)

[Hartmut]

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                 Summary: old year in startup message, news file (Octave
5.1.90)
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: hardy
            Submitted on: Thu 23 Jan 2020 08:07:25 AM UTC
                Category: Documentation
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Documentation
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: other
        Operating System: Any

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Details:

When I install the official Windows installer of the current alpha version
5.1.90 and then start Octave, I see the following startup message:


GNU Octave, version 5.1.90
Copyright (C) 2019 John W. Eaton and others.
This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions.
There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  For details, type 'warranty'.

Octave was configured for "x86_64-w64-mingw32".

Additional information about Octave is available at https://www.octave.org.

Please contribute if you find this software useful.
For more information, visit https://www.octave.org/get-involved.html

Read https://www.octave.org/bugs.html to learn how to submit bug reports.
For information about changes from previous versions, type 'news'.


Shouldn't this read 2020 instead of 2019, since this release is only to come?

Additionally, when I then type "news" I get to see a news file that ONLY talks
about the 5.1.0 release, not the one I am acutally using:


>> news
Summary of important user-visible changes for version 5 (2019-02-23):
--------------------------------------------------------------------

### General improvements
 ...


Shouldn't there, at the very top of the NEWS file, be at least a short note of
the current Octave version? Maybe only with the information: only small bug
fixes since version 5.1.0, maybe a bit more?




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