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"View version X.YZ.0 details" link in WP Admin → Themes points to stale changelog (ends at 1.8.0) #2922

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Bug

In WP Admin → Themes, clicking the "View version 1.82.0 details" link (shown when an update is available, or on the theme details modal) opens a release-notes page whose changelog ends at 1.8.0 — over a hundred releases out of date.

Where it comes from

The plugin-update-checker library uses the details_url value from the version-control JSON:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DiscipleTools/disciple-tools-version-control/master/disciple-tools-theme-version-control.json

Current contents:

```json
{
"version": "1.82.0",
"details_url": "https://discipletools.github.io/disciple-tools-version-control/",
"download_url": "https://github.com/DiscipleTools/disciple-tools-theme/releases/download/1.82.0/disciple-tools-theme.zip"
}
```

The details_url points to a GitHub Pages site whose changelog hasn't been updated past 1.8.0.

Suggested fix

Update details_url in disciple-tools-theme-version-control.json (in the DiscipleTools/disciple-tools-version-control repo) to point to a maintained source of release notes — e.g.:

https://github.com/DiscipleTools/disciple-tools-theme/releases/latest

That way the "View version details" link always lands on the actual current release notes.

Reported by

Community member running 1.74, noticed while preparing to upgrade to 1.82.

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