Releases page UX / "find a release" filter unusable

[ulope]

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The releases page has very poor UX.
To find a specific release (but without knowing the exact version number) one has to successively page through the existing releases and manually look for the release.

The "Find a release" functionality is no help since it seems to perform substring matches on the input.

For example the search term "8.1.0" will find all releases that contain the strings "8", "1" and "0" even in their description. Since many projects list version numbers of dependencies and also issue numbers in their release notes this will rarely produce the desired result.

There needs to be a better interface to navigate releases. Ideally there would be some kind of timeline where existing releases are shown and can be navigated to.

At the very least the search needs to be able to do exact string matches.

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