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Write Release Notes

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Write release notes people actually read — organised by what changed for the user, leading with impact, and honest about breakage. Use when writing a changelog, release notes, or a "what's new" post.

---
name: write-release-notes
category: business
description: >-
  Write release notes people actually read — organised by what changed for the
  user, leading with impact, and honest about breakage. Use when writing a
  changelog, release notes, or a "what's new" post.
---

# Write Release Notes

Most release notes are a commit log with the hashes removed. Nobody reads them,
so nobody learns the feature exists, so the feature may as well not have
shipped.

The test for a release note is simple: **would a user change what they do
tomorrow after reading this?**

## Organise by audience impact, not by system

Not this:

```
- Updated auth service to v2.3
- Refactored the notification queue
- Bumped dependencies
```

This:

```
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