Release Notes
summary
Argues that release notes should be machine-generated from Conventional Commits and demonstrates a CI job that runs a git-log parser and changelog-generator to publish GitHub releases plus a human-edited “migration steps” section. Shows the exact script, regexes, and publish steps used, reports a weekly release cadence that reduced support tickets by 40% across three products and sped upgrades, and describes one failure where semantic-release mis-tagged a beta that was fixed with a preflight hook.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Introduction
- 5:06Main software updates
- 10:24Recent issues and fixes
- 16:15User impact and cases
- 20:15Closing and conclusions
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