Release notes are a written summary accompanying a software or product update. They tell users and customers what has been added, improved, fixed or removed, and anything they must do, such as migrating settings or updating an integration.
Why it matters
Notes help customers discover value in new features, understand changes in behaviour and trust that problems are being fixed. They also reduce support questions and give developers and support staff a reference for when something changed. Breaking changes, deprecations and security fixes deserve special prominence. They pair with semantic versioning, where the version number signals the type of change.
Example
Version 2.4.0 - 6 October 2026
New
- Alert contacts can now be grouped by team.
Improved
- Dashboard loads about twice as fast on large accounts.
Fixed
- Reports no longer show the wrong time zone for Asian regions.
Deprecated
- The v1 API will be removed in 2027.Common mistakes
- Pasting raw commit messages that users cannot understand.
- Hiding breaking changes among minor items.
- Skipping the notes for small releases.
- Describing the code instead of the benefit.
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