I just upgraded to limesurvey206plus-build151109. There are upgrade notifications at the top of the admin panel for all users (not just superusers), including the present one for the next unstable release. It's fine if I see these, but there's no reason everyone should. The link just does on the update page, I'm assuming because they don't have permission to access that page, but showing the link is not helpful.

Hi,

bugs.limesurvey.org/view.php?id=9879

Just close the notification clicking on the close button

OK, but ...

1) It would be nice if that close button was actually visible. I completely missed the tiny nearly-white "x". Now that you've pointed it out, it works fine. It's nearly invisible in the screenshot as well, by the way, so it's not just my template or something.

2) The old system had (and your current manual on the website still shows) a choice about the types of updates to look for, allowing me to ignore unstable ones. If you're going to display the message to everyone, as the bug report indicates you've decided, then there should at least be a way to ignore versions that I don't imagine get installed on a lot of live servers.

3) The message includes a link for everyone. Informing everyone is debatable, but offering a dead link to non-superadmins is obviously an actual error.

Turns out that #3 is a pretty trivial change in the view for _update_notification. I just added a superuser check to the whole section that shows the three types of updates, but it would be easy to show different text, with or without links, for different users, or show different types of updates to different users.

I guess I can even get behind the idea of showing security update notifications (with or without links, as appropriate) to everyone, but not unstable (and maybe regular) updates.

One of the greatest LimeSurvey's problems today, is that there is way too much out of date LimeSurvey installations in the world.

I understand, but prompting users without permission to update to open links that are just blank pages isn't going to help with that. And removing options for customization that used to be there isn't going to make the rest of us happier either. I'm not saying I won't update, or even that I don't want to see (some of - security especially, but stable as well) the updates, just that it should be a little more targeted.

Anyway, I've hidden the notices in my own install, so there's no further need for this thread to continue if you feel dead links for inappropriately permissioned users aren't a problem.

Louis, believe me, I agree totally. One of our biggest problems is that people come to the forum asking for help for installations that are 1.9x and even lower. We can't really help them, because who still has one of those installations running? None of the regular forum helpers, that is sure. And it doesn't make sense to try to fix things that are already fixed in newer versions. So loads of unnecessary work in the forum because of this.

But I agree with d902: It doesn't really make sense to show the update message to everyone. I could accept that major updates are shown, if we really must, even to everyone. But unstable releases really should not be shown. Actually not even to the administrators. Unstable releases should be rather "pull" than "push".