[Feat]: urge upgrade of code-server based on discontinued version.

[bala]

What is your suggestion?

Currently, we have users using the old version of code-server and submitting bug reports. we should maintain a column on the release page mentioning which version of code server support is being discontinued. the discontinued versions can be decided based on vscode release version. the discontinued versions issues will be less prioritized and the user who submitted the bugs are encouraged to check the issue again in updated version of code-server

Why do you want this feature?

The above feature should throw a popup to users using the old version of code-server. it can be made in the below methods.

1. Minor version upgrade is available (4.5.0 to 4.5.1)- popup once a week
2. Minor version upgrade not done in several weeks - (4.4.0 to 4.5.1 where there has been an upgrade from 1.68.x to 1.69.x) - every time user logins & bottom status bar in orange color
3. Not upgraded from old versions (4.1.x ) - frequent upgrade notifications & bottom status bar in Red color
   

Are there any workarounds to get this functionality today?

No

Are you interested in submitting a PR for this?

No

[fritterhoff]

1. Minor version upgrade is available (4.5.0 to 4.5.1)- popup once a week

2. Minor version upgrade not done in several weeks - (4.4.0 to 4.5.1 where there has been an upgrade from 1.68.x to 1.69.x) - every time user logins & bottom status bar in orange color

3. Not upgraded from old versions (4.1.x ) - frequent upgrade notifications & bottom status bar in Red color

Out of curiosity. How do you want to change the behaviour of some previously released versions, that don't include any functionality to realise the UI changes? Sure. Backporting of a fix would be possible but the users not updating their installation would prop. not install a backport either. Maybe this can be done for future versions but not for the existing versions...

[bala]

@fritterhoff the suggested methods are for the upcoming releases, the mentioned versions are only examples. Hope that's the implicit meaning.

[code-asher]

It has been almost a couple years, and I feel like the number of issues have been pretty manageable so maybe we do not need to do anything here for now.

We do have a popup in code-server that appears when the version is out of date.

It could be nice though to change the bug template to ask the user to upgrade if they choose something other than the most recent version. I think maybe GitHub lets us do that?