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Questions tagged [release-notes]

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How should release notes be written?

Is there any sort of guidelines or best practices on how release notes should be written? I guess I am trying to find the proper balance between making the point without being too specific. Also, do developer usually provide a much more release…
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Release notes, what for?

What are release notes for and who reads them? Should/could they be automated by just spitting out bug fixes for the current release, or do they warrant careful human editing? So, anybody with a link to best practices(reasoning behind) in regards…
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Generate release notes from Subversion

Is there a way to generate release notes from Subversion comments? Basically I'd be happy if I could just capture the information that you see if you view the log. But if I copy and paste from the log into a text editor, I get a lot of other…
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How to create release notes in bitbucket?

We are using Bitbucket as a remote server for version control system. Project is developed in Java using Eclipse IDE (Luna version). We are using integrated Git feature for managing source code versions with Bitbucket server. So, Is there any way we…
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Flutter: Display Change Log / Release Notes / "What's new" after upgrade to new app version

I'm currently searching for a while how I can implement the following feature with Flutter for Android and IOS apps: When the application is opened the first time after a version update I'd like to show a dialog with the information what's new in…
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Semantic Release - Add more sections to auto-generated release notes

I've just finished setting up semantic-release for my node project and made the first release with it: It seems that only commits with type fix or feat are added to the release notes... I want to be able to show improvement type as well. Is there a…
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How to get release notes programmatically from jira plugin

I am writing a simple listener for Jira 4.4.1 to manage release artifacts creation upon version release. Since it is a listener - I automatically have versionID. How can I acquire release notes programmatically from within plugin? Edit: I want to…
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in azure devops, How can we tell which stories are in a release candidate?

We use continuous build and deploys up through a test environment, and each changeset is tied to a work item (story). After the build is deployed to an environment, I think we can see every associated story for that build. Question is what has…
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How to configure release-drafter based on the commits not the merged pull requests

I'm going to integrate release-drafter to one of our repositories. The integration is pretty straight forward. But my problem is that once we Squash and Merge a PR to our based branch (develop), we checkout a new branch called release/tagVersion…
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Is there any way to order/group work item type in Azure DevOps release notes

I'm setting up a release notes step in my build pipeline, and I want to group/order work items by type. In build task for generating release notes step, I add task "Generate Release Notes for Pipeline Builds or Releases" from the market place The…
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Uncaught Error: unknown type: dragend in d3.js v5.4.0

I am using the d3.js v5.4.0. Here is the error I am getting: Uncaught Error: unknown type: dragend. It is because I am trying to do the following: d3.drag() .subject(function(d){ return {x: d.x, y: d.y}; …
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How to generate Release Notes for Milestones?

So I was wondering how you guys handle generating of release notes for let's say a milestone in GitLab. What I want is to have for every Issue an option to write some text that is considered a "Release Note". Then I want an option to automatically…
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Semantic release - include in CHANGELOG the commit subject, body and footer

I am trying to configure semantic release to include the subject, body and footer of the commit messages in CHANGELOG.md file, not just the subject of commit message, but no success. In my changelog I still have only the short subject of commit…
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Where are FSharp.Core release notes?

Where can I find release notes for FSharp.Core packages (https://www.nuget.org/packages/FSharp.Core/) ? I visited project's site on GH, but apart from a discussion on where these should be put I haven't found much more. I'm mostly interested in…
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Add release note to testflight builds from xcode

I want to add release notes to testflight build from Xcode. Below is a tutorial to tell how to do that. but this approach is not working for me. Does anyone have an idea or another way to do…
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