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Feature: add "outdated" notification on download and submit

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
go
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start by tracing the CLI entry points for downloading and submitting exercises, then identify how each receives the exercise or test-suite version. Check how a flag could control the notification. Done means both operations can report when a newer test-suite version exists and suggest updating without blocking the student.

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Description

If a student downloads an exercise or submits an exercise that has a newer version of test suite, add the message that their version is outdated and they could update to the latest version. Preferably via a flag in the CLI.

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