Site: Rename menu "downloads" to "releases"

[flyrain]

We have discussed the renaming of the "downloads" page to "releases". Here is the PR.

How was this patch tested?

Test locally, the new menu "releases" works well. Cannot test versioned doc locally.

[flyrain]

Trying to keep it for backward compatibilities, as we've shared the link multiple places. I'm OK to change it to releases as well if people think consistency is more important.

[dimas-b]

@flyrain :

We have discussed the renaming of the "downloads" page to "releases".

Could you link the discussion?

[flyrain]

Could you link the discussion?

Cannot find it :-(. I think @jbonofre was part of the conversation.

[jbonofre]

Yes I confirm we got a discussion about that.

[dimas-b]

Cannot test versioned doc locally.

• clone polaris
• cd site/content/
• git clone --reference ../../polaris [email protected]:apache/polaris.git releases
• cd releases
• git co versioned-docs
• cd ../../..
• site/bin/run-hugo-in-docker.sh

[singhpk234]

+1 for this rename ! Here is a nice data showing how people coming to download page in our website polaris.apache.org eventually land to releases page

https://analytics.apache.org/index.php?module=CoreHome&action=index&date=yesterday&period=day&idSite=81#?period=week&date=2025-10-27&idSite=81&category=General_Actions&subcategory=Transitions_Transitions

[snazy]

Also cannot find a discussion on the mailing list for this.

[jbonofre]

Yeah, I don't find it either, but I'm sure we discussed about that (during the 0.9.0-incubating prep as far as I remember).

As we don't find the thread, maybe worth to point this PR on the mailing list to have a broader information.