Inaccurate dates in release archive

[SergeyBiryukov]

On ​https://wordpress.org/download/releases/, there's a table column for release dates.

The dates are mostly accurate, however 2.2.3 and older releases (in branch sections), as well as 2.3-RC1 and older (in "Beta & RC releases" section), all have "September 24, 2007" instead of the actual date.

For historical accuracy, they should have the correct dates as well. I can track them down if there is consensus on this.

[SergeyBiryukov]

Additionally, there were ​four releases in the 0.7x branch:

• ​0.70 (May 27, 2003)
• ​0.71 (June 9, 2003)
• ​0.711 (June 25, 2003)
• ​0.72 (October 11, 2003)

Only 0.71 is available in the release archive. Would be great to add 0.70, 0.711, and 0.72 as well.

[Otto42]

Those dates come from the timestamps on the ZIP files in the /nfs/releases directory. Evidently those were moved at some point, presumably September 2007, and the dates on the ZIPs were lost.

[tellyworth]

If someone can track down the dates (they're probably available within the zips, if nowhere else) then systems should be able to alter the file times so it's correct.

[dd32]

Assuming the dates of the parent folder in the ZIP/Tars are correct (usually wordpress/ but sometimes wordpress-.../), this seems to get the right list of dates:

$ ls -la *.zip | grep 'Sep 24' | cut -c45- | xargs -I% sh -c 'echo "% \t\t `unzip -v % | grep '/$' | head -1 | cut -c 32-48`"'
$ ls -la *.tar.gz | grep 'Oct  3  2007' | cut -c45- | xargs -I% sh -c 'echo "% \t\t `tar -tvf % | grep '/$' | head -1 | cut -c32-48`"'
$ echo I know the above commands are pretty ugly

wordpress-0.71-gold.zip 		 2003-06-09 18:32
wordpress-0.72-RC1.zip 			 2003-10-03 23:17
wordpress-0.72-beta-1.zip 		 2003-08-24 18:19
wordpress-1.0-RC1.zip 		 	 2004-01-02 04:37
wordpress-1.0-platinum.zip 		 2004-01-03 03:23
wordpress-1.0.1-RC1.zip 		 2004-01-15 22:22
wordpress-1.0.1-miles.zip 		 2004-01-25 11:33
wordpress-1.0.2-blakey.zip 		 2004-03-11 19:16
wordpress-1.0.2.zip 		 	 2004-01-25 05:31
wordpress-1.2-RC1.zip 			 2004-05-14 09:15
wordpress-1.2-RC2.zip 			 2004-05-20 11:56
wordpress-1.2-beta.zip 			 2004-04-29 07:29
wordpress-1.2-delta.zip 		 2004-05-10 10:29
wordpress-1.2-mingus.zip 		 2004-05-22 10:27
wordpress-1.2.1.zip 			 2004-04-28 02:26
wordpress-1.2.2.zip 			 2004-12-16 00:01
wordpress-1.5-strayhorn.zip 		 2005-02-17 10:14
wordpress-1.5.1.1.zip 			 2005-05-19 17:45
wordpress-1.5.1.2.zip	 		 2005-05-27 06:34
wordpress-1.5.1.3.zip 			 2005-07-03 05:51
wordpress-1.5.1.zip 			 2005-05-09 19:10
wordpress-1.5.2.zip 			 2005-08-15 04:02
wordpress-2.0.1-RC1.zip 		 2006-01-27 19:03
wordpress-2.0.1.zip 		 	 2006-01-31 20:10
wordpress-2.0.10-RC1.zip 		 2007-03-14 23:31
wordpress-2.0.10-RC2.zip 		 2007-03-16 22:17
wordpress-2.0.10-RC3.zip 		 2007-03-31 18:13
wordpress-2.0.10.zip 			 2007-04-03 00:34
wordpress-2.0.11-RC1.zip 		 2007-05-21 18:23
wordpress-2.0.11-RC2.zip 		 2007-06-04 02:34
wordpress-2.0.11-RC3.zip 		 2007-06-10 19:44
wordpress-2.0.11.zip 			 2007-08-05 05:44
wordpress-2.0.4.zip 			 2006-07-29 01:45
wordpress-2.0.5-RC1.zip 		 2006-10-17 20:33
wordpress-2.0.5-beta-1.zip 		 2006-10-04 01:05
wordpress-2.0.5.zip 			 2006-10-27 23:02
wordpress-2.0.6-RC1.zip 		 2006-12-15 18:53
wordpress-2.0.6-RC2.zip 		 2006-12-28 17:45
wordpress-2.0.6-beta1.zip 		 2006-12-05 06:38
wordpress-2.0.6.zip 			 2007-01-05 13:14
wordpress-2.0.7-RC1.zip 		 2007-01-11 03:53
wordpress-2.0.7-RC2.zip 		 2007-01-14 04:08
wordpress-2.0.7.zip 			 2007-01-15 21:41
wordpress-2.0.8-RC1.zip 		 2007-02-01 21:32
wordpress-2.0.8.zip 			 2007-02-05 22:43
wordpress-2.0.9-RC1.zip 		 2007-02-17 20:21
wordpress-2.0.9-beta.zip 		 2007-02-14 01:02
wordpress-2.0.9.zip 			 2007-02-20 19:59
wordpress-2.0.zip 			 2005-12-26 20:15
wordpress-2.1-RC1.zip 			 2007-01-18 05:40
wordpress-2.1-RC2.zip 			 2007-01-20 06:54
wordpress-2.1-beta1.zip 		 2007-01-04 03:05
wordpress-2.1-beta2.zip 		 2007-01-09 22:57
wordpress-2.1-beta3.zip 		 2007-01-16 07:38
wordpress-2.1-beta4.zip 		 2007-01-16 18:17
wordpress-2.1.1-RC1.zip 		 2007-02-17 20:21
wordpress-2.1.1-beta.zip 		 2007-02-14 01:02
wordpress-2.1.1.zip 			 2007-02-20 19:59
wordpress-2.1.2.zip 			 2007-03-02 17:44
wordpress-2.1.3-RC1.zip 		 2007-03-14 23:31
wordpress-2.1.3-RC2.zip 		 2007-03-16 22:17
wordpress-2.1.3-RC3.zip 		 2007-03-31 18:13
wordpress-2.1.3.zip 			 2007-04-03 00:34
wordpress-2.1.zip 			 2007-01-22 21:58
wordpress-2.2-RC1.zip 			 2007-05-09 01:45
wordpress-2.2-RC2.zip 			 2007-05-12 23:08
wordpress-2.2.1-RC1.zip 		 2007-06-10 19:44
wordpress-2.2.1-RC2.zip 		 2007-06-16 02:41
wordpress-2.2.1.zip 			 2007-06-20 15:22
wordpress-2.2.2.zip 			 2007-08-05 05:44
wordpress-2.2.3.zip 			 2007-09-07 19:47
wordpress-2.2.zip 			 2007-05-16 00:38
wordpress-2.3-RC1.zip 			 2007-09-19 04:29
wordpress-2.3-beta1.zip 		 2007-08-28 04:30
wordpress-2.3-beta2.zip 		 2007-09-04 05:59
wordpress-2.3-beta3.zip 		 2007-09-11 03:17

wordpress-mu-1.0.tar.gz 		 2006-10-10 12:14
wordpress-mu-1.1.1.tar.gz 		 2007-02-27 18:00
wordpress-mu-1.2.1.tar.gz 		 2007-03-29 10:36
wordpress-mu-1.2.2.tar.gz 		 2007-06-11 20:38
wordpress-mu-1.2.3.tar.gz 		 2007-06-25 11:01
wordpress-mu-1.2.4.tar.gz 		 2007-08-09 14:30
wordpress-mu-1.2.5.tar.gz 		 2007-09-10 18:58
wordpress-mu-1.2.5a.tar.gz 		 2007-09-10 21:52
wordpress-mu-1.2.tar.gz 		 2007-03-28 19:58

If anyone can confirm those dates, I'll see if Systems can update it.
These are stored with a SVN repo, so the dates might actually be tied to the commit timestamp instead, in which case we may just need to hard-code some of these dates.

[ocean90]

#5532 was marked as a duplicate.

[dd32]

#6559 was marked as a duplicate.

[jb510]

TY @dd32. Obviously, I looked for duplicates... just didn't look this far back :)

[samedwards]

I'd love to see these dates fixed up for the upcoming 20th anniversary of the first release.

In addition, there are files for 0.70 and 0.72 available at ​https://sourceforge.net/projects/cafelog/files/OldFiles/, which seems to be as canonical of a source that could exist, outside official wordpress.org release archives.

[Otto42]

#7718 was marked as a duplicate.

[eidolonnight]

Replying to dd32:

Assuming the dates of the parent folder in the ZIP/Tars are correct (usually wordpress/ but sometimes wordpress-.../), this seems to get the right list of dates:
If anyone can confirm those dates, I'll see if Systems can update it.
These are stored with a SVN repo, so the dates might actually be tied to the commit timestamp instead, in which case we may just need to hard-code some of these dates.

In all verifiable cases, these dates match those found in ​https://wordpress.org/news/. Exceptions are:

• Releases like 1.5.1.3, which was modified after the post date assumably for security reasons.
• A few announcement posts came just a day later.
• Not all Beta and RC releases were announced on WordPress News.

Considering the suspicion that would be raised downloading a release and seeing files with a different modification date, @ryelle and I agree that we should use the Zip dates listed here as canonical.

@dd32 you can move ahead with the Systems request. @ryelle also offered to hardcode the dates if necessary.