Update notes seems to have not been updated since 1.11.2 but did formerly show previous updates until today. The update notes tab now displays "Javascript is required to use this site"
Resource launcher uses appears to be https://mcupdate.tumblr.com/
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There are no errors in the launcher log (in my case). But then there wouldn't be, because the page being displayed is a valid 200 successful web page. Just one that happens to detect JavaScript is disabled. But that is not an error as far as the browser is concerned.
I seems like the old v1 launcher is no longer maintained as the bug was marked as Legacy not long after I posted the report.
I switched to using MultiMC which I feel is a lot more useful and intuitive than the v2 launchers for Linux.
Same error still.
Launcher version 1.6.89-j
Linux Mint 18.3
Open JDK 1.8.0_212
Minecraft 1.14.2
The text JavaScript is required" is an active browser link which opens fine with my default browser and tells me I am running JavaScript. So the launcher appears to be using a different browser than my system default.