Want to keep track of subscribers and team signups via webhook? Well now you can. Today we added the possibility to get a POST webhook notification whenever someone subscribes or unsubscribes to your changelog. You will also be notified when someone joins your team, in addition to an email notification.

Email notifications for team signups can now optionally be disabled, but we suggest to keep them enabled.

Webhook notifications are automatically enabled once you add a valid endpoint to your workspace settings. To learn more about handling webhook requests, check out our help article.

"I need multiple workspaces" was something we heard a few times the past couple of weeks – mostly from our beta testers. Fair enough. This was something we had planned to build anyway, so we moved it up the todo list.

Additional workspaces are now available. Each account (except team member accounts) can create up to 3 workspaces by default. If more than 3 workspaces are needed, additional ones are available via a one-time payment of €5 (~ $5.30).

Workspace logo in backend

We also added the custom workspace logo to the backend view, if one was uploaded. This will replace our default "Releases" logo with the one from your own changelog. Dark mode and light mode versions are respected, if both were uploaded.

Today we added the possibility to sign up / sign in to Releases via Google and GitHub. Simply authenticate with your existing credentials and you are good to go. We may add additional providers in a future update.

Apart from some under-the-hood improvements, today's update brings two new formatting options: Inline code and marker.

We are currently preparing a new theme as well as a notification system when new subscribers signed up.

We are excited to announce the introduction of "Teams". With this release, admins can now form and manage teams of any size.

Each workspace can have one team. There are no limitations on how many people can join a team – invite as many as you have. Invites are done via a unique invite-link that can be re-generated or disabled at any time.

Anybody with access to a workspace invite-link can join this workspace. Admins will be notified via email when a new member joined. There currently is no permissions or roles system in place. Only admins can remove members from a team.

In a future update, we may introduce a simple permissions / roles system that allows admins to define publish and delete rights to entries for specific users. Right now, every member of a team can publish and delete entries, has access to tags, subscribers, as well as to the workspace settings.

Today we would like to introduce a new feature called "GitHub Sync". If you keep your release notes on GitHub, changes are you have an open source package, an app or website or essentially anything that can be hosted on GitHub and shared with others.

Not everyone is on GitHub though. If you have a website, you can make use of our widget to show your release notes directly where your users are. Just keep updating your releases notes on GitHub and sync them with Releases anytime you like.

In a future update, we will add the option to auto-sync release notes. "GitHub Sync" is currently only available for public repositories.

To get started, head over to the "GitHub Sync" settings and connect your repository.

Today we shipped our widget and also added a sitemap to all public changelogs.

Widget

Use our widget to show the latest changelog entries directly within a website. No need for users to leave your website or platform. Implementation should not take longer than 2 minutes and is really straightforward.

To see a demo and setup instructions, log in to your account and head over to the "Widget" settings.

Sitemap

We also added a sitemap.xml to all changelogs. You can, for example, submit this sitemap to the Google Search Console or use it anyway you need. Just append /sitemap.xml at the end of your workspace url, e.g. example.com/sitemap.xml

Today we added a new theme called "Minimalist". As the name suggests, it's really minimal. The theme is available in light and dark mode.

We also added a new option to upload a custom logo for dark mode.

To change a theme, head over to the "Appearance" settings. This is also where you can set an optional logo for dark mode.

Apart from a bunch of smaller improvements across the backend, we also implemented the possibility to export a workspace.

This will give you all entries, files, tags and subscribers. It is also possible to only export subscribers.

To export the entire workspace, head over to the workspace settings and scroll down to the "Export" section. Exporting a full workspace should not take longer than 30 seconds. Exports will be deleted after 7 days, but a new export can be generated at any time.

Today we are pleased to release access to our API.

You can access workspace related resources via the following endpoints:

GET /api/workspace
GET /api/entries
GET /api/entries/{id}
GET /api/tags
GET /api/subscribers
POST /api/subscribers

To read more about how to access and use the API, check out our help center.

Today we added a new theme called "Commit". This theme is a Tailwind UI template and fits perfectly for Releases. You're currently looking right at it.

We also added the possibility to subscribe via RSS. You can find the feed by adding /feed to the main url. RSS readers will then recognize when updates were published to your changelog.

Background jobs are running

For the past few days, we tested our automated background jobs to make sure everything runs fine behind the scenes. So we can be sure that emails are dispatched, scheduled posts become published when the "Publish on" date arrives and so on. Apart from one slight hick-up, everything seems to run just fine and is ready for production. 🤖

Public beta status + final touches

We invited 20 people to try Releases prior to the public beta and the feedback has been great so far. A few days ago we actually opened the public beta and a few more people have joined. We are confident that by the end of this week, we can "remove" the beta status and just be live.

There are still a few minor things missing and also some smaller UI improvements have to be made until then. But yeah, Friday should be the "official" launch. We're excited! 🎉

We're excited to launch our public beta today. 🎉

The past week we fixed bugs and everything was polished. We also added a search into the backend area. We improved the speed for custom domain validation and made a few tweaks to the dark mode.

All in all, things are turning out great so far. There are still a few features missing that we have planned for the initial launch later this month, but they are coming soon.