We need a good mechanism for displaying the current BIRCH version, whether Development or stable, on both the BIRCH web site and the command-line login message.

1) For the browser, it should be placed directly into the home page by customdoc.py, rather than being included in WhatsNew.html.

2)For the login message, would it be possible to generate that on the fly for each login, rather than having it be a static message in $BIRCH/local? Or maybe eliminate it from $BIRCH local altogether.

3) In birch launcher, maybe we should have some menu item that opens the Release Notes, displaying the current version.