# New Version Notifications
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-version-notifications/96030
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [August 30, 2018, 7:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-version-notifications/96030 "2018-08-30T19:29:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@mmayo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mmayo)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2018, 7:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-version-notifications/96030/1 "2018-08-30T19:29:03Z")
I’d love it if, when a new version of Discourse is released, our Team slack channel was notified. I don’t participate in the day-to-day administration of our Discourse instance, so I sometimes go days, or even weeks without viewing the version info in the Admin panel. My team is responsible for technical maintenance of our Discourse instance.
This could potentially be done via the DiscourseUpdates module + some SiteSetting to input a slack channel, or maybe just a webhook?
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2018, 7:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-version-notifications/96030/2 "2018-08-30T19:33:51Z")
What about RSS?
> **[Discourse Meta - Topics tagged release-notes](https://meta.discourse.org/tags/release-notes.rss)**
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> **[Add RSS feeds to Slack](https://slack.com/help/articles/218688467-Add-RSS-feeds-to-Slack)**
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> Have a favorite blog or news site? You can use Slack to subscribe to both RSS and Atom feeds and get updates in the Slack channel of your choice. Note: If you get an error when trying to add a fee...
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### Author:  [@mmayo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mmayo)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2018, 7:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-version-notifications/96030/3 "2018-08-30T19:41:44Z")
@Falco that’s not a bad option. My only gripe is that my discourse instance seems to know that I am on version 2.04-stable, and that I need to 2.05 stable, and doesn’t tell me about versions of Discourse I’m not tracking.
Using the feed you linked, I’d get a lot of release information we wouldn’t need, and it’d get potentially ignored due to alert fatigue. In the short term this helps, but I don’t think it quite solves the same problem. The difference is in being told, ‘you should upgrade’, which the Discourse UI does for me, or ‘there’s a new version of something out, and maybe you need to upgrade. Take a look.’
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2018, 7:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-version-notifications/96030/4 "2018-08-30T19:46:26Z")
If you roll on the stable branch, maybe this feed [https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commits/stable.atom](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commits/stable.atom) ?
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### Author:  [@mmayo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mmayo)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2018, 7:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-version-notifications/96030/5 "2018-08-30T19:49:59Z")
That’s even cleaner. I think this will work for us. :slight_smile: Thanks!
I _still_ think that it’d be a nice feature, and worth consideration for future versions. It’s not necessarily obvious to non-technical (or even technical users, users - I forgot about RSS as an option/didn’t consider that Slack has a built in reader) that there are other options for this sort of notification.