DOC: Adding version to the whatsnew section in the home page
State: closed

@TomAugspurger @jorisvandenbossche 

Not so important, but looking at the home, feels quite weird to have the "What's New" section first thing in the toctree, without specifying what's new of in which version.

May be it's just me, feel free to dismiss this, but wanted to open as it's a trivial change, and IMO makes it much clearer.

You can see how this looks here: https://datapythonista.github.io/pandas-doc-preview/

Sorry for the last minute stuff.

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name: Docs

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# [Codecov](https://codecov.io/gh/pandas-dev/pandas/pull/24929?src=pr&el=h1) Report
> :exclamation: No coverage uploaded for pull request base (`master@0bc2d3e`). [Click here to learn what that means](https://docs.codecov.io/docs/error-reference#section-missing-base-commit).
> The diff coverage is `n/a`.

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| #single | `42.89% <ø> (?)` | |


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# [Codecov](https://codecov.io/gh/pandas-dev/pandas/pull/24929?src=pr&el=h1) Report
> Merging [#24929](https://codecov.io/gh/pandas-dev/pandas/pull/24929?src=pr&el=desc) into [master](https://codecov.io/gh/pandas-dev/pandas/commit/0bc2d3e0bf81019ece6003113e8e2ef0e24382b4?src=pr&el=desc) will **decrease** coverage by `<.01%`.
> The diff coverage is `n/a`.

[![Impacted file tree graph](https://codecov.io/gh/pandas-dev/pandas/pull/24929/graphs/tree.svg?width=650&token=eZ4WkYLtcO&height=150&src=pr)](https://codecov.io/gh/pandas-dev/pandas/pull/24929?src=pr&el=tree)

```diff
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##           master   #24929      +/-   ##
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- Coverage   92.38%   92.38%   -0.01%     
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  Files         166      166              
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  Hits        48397    48397              
- Misses       3991     3992       +1
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| Flag | Coverage Δ | |
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| #multiple | `90.8% <ø> (ø)` | :arrow_up: |
| #single | `42.9% <ø> (ø)` | :arrow_up: |

| [Impacted Files](https://codecov.io/gh/pandas-dev/pandas/pull/24929?src=pr&el=tree) | Coverage Δ | |
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| [pandas/core/api.py](https://codecov.io/gh/pandas-dev/pandas/pull/24929/diff?src=pr&el=tree#diff-cGFuZGFzL2NvcmUvYXBpLnB5) | `100% <0%> (ø)` | :arrow_up: |

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I think I'd prefer `What’s New in 0.24.0` to `What’s New in 0.24.0 (January XX, 2019)`. Thoughts on that?
Long term, it is indeed easy to forget to update that. Is there a sphinx substitution that could be used?