Mark Smith:
The only thing that is confusing about not advertising an update is that people may wonder why they are not able to update to the latest version (4.0.1) from within the browser. But we have dealt with that problem in the past with Tor Browser non-security critical updates.
There is a difference here: In the past there was no updater in Tor Browser and the users did not expect to have it working. This changed with 4.0 and users start asking why they can't update to 4.0.1 as there is now an updater available but which tells them that their browser is up-to-date which is clearly false (there is a new version that is even fixing non-emergency issues). This is indeed confusing. I think we should at least avoid that in the future and allow always updating from within the browser if we ship an update for the respective platform. This means it is totally fine to ship, say, a hotfix update just for Windows and let therefore only update Windows users to the new version and claim for all other platforms the browser is still up-to-date.
To avoid advertising an update, I think we will need to tweak the .htaccess file that boklm's script generates.
Do we? I thought just doing nothing is enough.
Georg