Do you maintain release notes/changelog for your saas?
Hi Everyone,
Do you guys maintain a changelog/release notes for all your releases, what kind of value do you think changelogs and release notes bring?
Recently been following linear's changelog https://linear.app/changelog and they have been doing it weekly. Any other examples that you have seen recently?
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I keep one here: https://polypane.app/docs/changelog/ and here: https://superposition.design/changelog/ which I fetch dynamically from the release notes from my Github releases (so it gets updated automatically and is very low-effort). I also show these in-app/
I don't add images (usually do that in release blogs) but maybe I should, it looks great for Linear!
I had planned to do similar.
Hey, that seems like a good automation idea, but have you ever tried products that actually give these functionalities where you can embed widgets and have a dedicated standalone landing page for your changelogs?
I looked into them, but with my current setup I have full control over how everything is shown (I just get markdown, and then render the markdown in a place I want, how I want), and fetching the resources isn't a lot of work.
Absolutely, makes sense :)
Nice example of a changelog. I usually write blog posts when a big change happens in my project, but I also have a simple changelog to communicate changes with users.
I maintain the release notes through the releases page on GitHub, but I also use Headway to maintain a public changelog for my users. The public changelog is external to my app, but their the Headway widget can be installed so that it appears like a notifications button in your app.
Public releases changelog: https://github.com/chartbrew/chartbrew/releases
Hedway changelog: https://headwayapp.co/chartbrew-updates
Ahh, I see makes sense.
That's one beautiful changelog page. My crew and I having a private changelog on Github, but I am thinking of putting it public since we gonna launch Automatio.co soon.
Thinking of using Notion for that, but not quite sure. It should be hosted in the same domain as the project.
Here is another good example: https://manychat.com/changelog
Oh awesome, best of luck for https://automatio.co/ the product idea looks 🔥
And the manychat's changelog looks awesome...
Thanks man!
Unsurprisingly, we use Noora's own changelog functionality to write and share our changelog. It is nice to tie back our release notes to stuff users have requested from us :)