Transformer Kinesis docs link to GitHub releases (stuck at 6.1.4) but versions 6.2–6.4 only ship to Docker Hub — no public release notes

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Affected page

docs/api-reference/loaders-storage-targets/snowplow-rdb-loader/transforming-enriched-data/stream-transformer/transformer-kinesis/index.md

Live: https://docs.snowplow.io/docs/api-reference/loaders-storage-targets/snowplow-rdb-loader/transforming-enriched-data/stream-transformer/transformer-kinesis/

Problem

The page states:

The asset is published as a jar file attached to the Github release notes for each version.

However, the snowplow/snowplow-rdb-loader GitHub repository is no longer kept up to date:

• Last published GitHub release: 6.1.4 (2025-01-22)
• Last commit on master: "Prepare for 6.1.5 release" (2025-04-04) — 6.1.5 only appears in the CHANGELOG, never released on GitHub
• The repo has effectively been frozen since the relicense to the Snowplow Limited Use License

Meanwhile, newer versions continue to ship to Docker Hub under snowplow/transformer-kinesis:

• 6.2.x, 6.3.0, 6.4.0, 6.4.1, 6.4.2 (2025-05-14), plus 6.4.3-dev* builds

This is internally inconsistent within the docs themselves: src/componentVersions.js sets rdbLoader: '6.4.2', and this very page renders snowplow/transformer-kinesis:6.4.2 in its examples — a version that does not exist on the GitHub releases page it links to.

Impact

For every version from 6.2.0 onward there are:

• No GitHub release notes
• No published CHANGELOG entries
• No jar assets attached to a GitHub release

Users following the documentation have no public source of release notes / upgrade information for the versions they are actually expected to run.

Suggested fix

Please either:

1. Point readers to wherever release notes for 6.2+ now live (docs upgrade guides, Discourse, or a maintained changelog), and/or
2. Update the wording so it no longer implies the GitHub releases page is the canonical, up-to-date source of release notes and assets, and clarify where current versions and their release notes can be found.

This likely affects the other stream transformer pages (Kafka, Pubsub) and the RDB Loader pages too, since they share the same "published as a jar attached to the Github release notes" phrasing.