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Release Notes & Changelog

A working changelog site with a writing standard, five worked example releases, and a reusable release-note template.

What's Included

This template arrives as a running changelog: five worked example releases show exactly how to write a major release, a single-feature month, an honest maintenance month, a breaking-change announcement with a deadline, and a deprecation notice with a timeline. Around them sit the writing standard with before-and-after rewrites, versioning and cadence rules, a reusable note template, a pre-release checklist and a playbook for announcing beyond the changelog.

Every page you get

11 pages, 2,701 words, written and ready

Changelog

2026.08 - Example major release
2026.07 - Example feature release
2026.06 - Example maintenance release
Example: a breaking change
Example: a deprecation notice

Writing releases

How release notes work here
The writing standard
Versioning and cadence

Process

Release note template
Pre-release checklist
Announcing beyond the changelog

Five Worked Examples

Major, feature, maintenance, breaking-change and deprecation releases, each written to standard.

The Writing Standard

Three questions every entry answers, with before-and-after rewrites of foggy notes.

Versioning and Cadence

Calendar or semantic versioning rules, patch handling, and honest quiet months.

Reusable Note Template

Copy, fill, delete what you did not use, publish.

Pre-Release Checklist

A five-minute gate that keeps the standard alive on busy weeks.