Release notes and changelogs

Start with the release notes writing guide, or browse real changelog examples to choose a format. There are separate workflows for App Store updates, Framer publishing and drafting from git history. Compare tools when you need help with hosting or automation.

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How to write release notes people read (and how a changelog differs)

Turn shipped changes into clear customer updates, with examples of what to explain, what to leave out and when a changelog helps.

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Practical guides and examples

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Three changelog pages side by side: Stripe's API changelog with its filters, Raycast's macOS changelog showing version 2.4 from September 14, 2026, and Sketch's What's New page

Examples

Changelog and release notes examples: 11 update pages, captured and dated

Eleven public changelog and release notes pages, from Linear, Stripe and GitHub to Mac apps like Raycast, CleanShot X and Sketch, and the one thing each does that is worth copying.

Two What's New boxes from the App Store website, one above the other. Top: Ellie version 4.0.13, Sep 4, with the whole note visible in three lines. Bottom: Structured version 4.6.0, 6d ago, showing only its first sentence and the words What's new, followed by an ellipsis and a more link circled in red.

Guide

App Store release notes: the limits, examples and a template for What’s New

What’s New holds 4,000 characters, but at phone width the App Store’s web page can show just one sentence before “more”. Write that sentence first.

Framer's free Changelog template page in a browser window with a light title bar on a blurred meadow photo, showing the Changelog title, Show Preview and Remix for Free buttons, and a preview with a v1.2.8 pill and an entry titled Improved Collections

Guide

How to create a changelog in Framer CMS

A Framer changelog is one CMS collection, one entry page bound to its fields and one list sorted newest first. Here are the fields, settings and plan limits.

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Resource

A free Claude Code skill for writing changelog entries

A SKILL.md you can copy that turns git commits into changelog entries people can read, what five existing changelog skills do, and a worked example.

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Choose a tool for the job you need it to do.

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AnnounceKit's changelog with a text card dated August 13, 2026 and a July 2, 2026 post that opens with a large diagram of AI agents connected to AnnounceKit

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The best changelog tools, compared on screenshots, GIFs and video

Eight changelog tools and what they cost, what their free plans leave out, and how each one handles screenshots, GIFs and video, from each vendor’s own pages.

Three browser windows on a pale sage background: ReleasePad’s GitHub integration page in the middle, headlined The AI changelog generator that reads your commits, Codex’s Non-interactive mode docs on the left and Release Drafter’s v7.7.0 release notes on GitHub on the right

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AI changelog generators compared: what each one reads, drafts and costs

What each AI changelog generator reads, where its draft lands and which plan it needs, from each tool’s own pages, plus a way to test two on a release you trust.