Chore: Update footer changelog link to github (#57871) (#57895)

(cherry picked from commit fd5c147574)

Co-authored-by: Josh Hunt <joshhunt@users.noreply.github.com>

.pa11yci-pr.conf.js

@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ var config = {
       url: '${HOST}/login',
       wait: 500,
       rootElement: '.main-view',
-      threshold: 12,
+      threshold: 13,
     },
     {
       url: '${HOST}/login',
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ var config = {
         "click element button[aria-label='Login button']",
         "wait for element [aria-label='Skip change password button'] to be visible",
       ],
-      threshold: 13,
+      threshold: 14,
       rootElement: '.main-view',
     },
     {
@@ -101,49 +101,49 @@ var config = {
       rootElement: '.main-view',
       // the unified alerting promotion alert's content contrast is too low
       // see https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/41829
-      threshold: 5,
+      threshold: 6,
     },
     {
       url: '${HOST}/datasources',
       wait: 500,
       rootElement: '.main-view',
-      threshold: 0,
+      threshold: 1,
     },
     {
       url: '${HOST}/org/users',
       wait: 500,
       rootElement: '.main-view',
-      threshold: 0,
+      threshold: 1,
     },
     {
       url: '${HOST}/org/teams',
       wait: 500,
       rootElement: '.main-view',
-      threshold: 0,
+      threshold: 1,
     },
     {
       url: '${HOST}/plugins',
       wait: 500,
       rootElement: '.main-view',
-      threshold: 0,
+      threshold: 1,
     },
     {
       url: '${HOST}/org',
       wait: 500,
       rootElement: '.main-view',
-      threshold: 0,
+      threshold: 1,
     },
     {
       url: '${HOST}/org/apikeys',
       wait: 500,
       rootElement: '.main-view',
-      threshold: 3,
+      threshold: 4,
     },
     {
       url: '${HOST}/dashboards',
       wait: 500,
       rootElement: '.main-view',
-      threshold: 0,
+      threshold: 1,
     },
   ],
 };

public/app/core/components/Footer/Footer.tsx

@@ -39,11 +39,10 @@ export let getFooterLinks = (): FooterLink[] => {
 };
 
 export function getVersionMeta(version: string) {
-  const containsHyphen = version.includes('-');
   const isBeta = version.includes('-beta');
 
   return {
-    hasReleaseNotes: !containsHyphen || isBeta,
+    hasReleaseNotes: true,
     isBeta,
   };
 }
@@ -64,17 +63,13 @@ export let getVersionLinks = (): FooterLink[] => {
     return links;
   }
 
-  const { hasReleaseNotes, isBeta } = getVersionMeta(buildInfo.version);
-  const versionSlug = buildInfo.version.replace(/\./g, '-'); // replace all periods with hyphens
-  const docsVersion = isBeta ? 'next' : 'latest';
+  const { hasReleaseNotes } = getVersionMeta(buildInfo.version);
 
   links.push({
     target: '_blank',
     id: 'version',
     text: `v${buildInfo.version} (${buildInfo.commit})`,
-    url: hasReleaseNotes
-      ? `https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/${docsVersion}/release-notes/release-notes-${versionSlug}/`
-      : undefined,
+    url: hasReleaseNotes ? `https://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md` : undefined,
   });
 
   if (buildInfo.hasUpdate) {