The Manual Release Notes Problem

Every release cycle, you face the same tedious task: reviewing commits, summarizing changes, formatting release notes, and publishing them. This process can take hours—time better spent building features.

The solution: generate release notes from GitHub commits automatically. Let automation handle the documentation while you focus on development.

Approaches to Automatic Generation

Option 1: GitHub's Native Feature

GitHub offers built-in automatic release notes that pull from PR titles and labels.

Setup:

1. Go to Releases → Create new release
2. Click "Generate release notes"
3. GitHub pulls PR titles since last release

Limitation: Only works if you use PRs consistently and requires manual triggering.

Option 2: Conventional Commits + Tools

Use structured commit messages with tools like semantic-release:

feat: add user authentication
fix: resolve memory leak in dashboard
docs: update API documentation

Tools parse these prefixes to generate changelogs automatically.

Limitation: Requires team-wide commit discipline. Output is still technical.

Option 3: AI-Powered Generation (ReleaseFlow)

ReleaseFlow takes a different approach: it analyzes your actual code changes—not just commit messages—and uses AI to generate user-friendly release notes.

How it works:

1. Fetches commits from your GitHub repository
2. Analyzes code diffs to understand what changed
3. AI generates descriptions focused on user impact
4. Delivers to Slack, Discord, Email automatically

Why Code Analysis Matters

Commit messages are often cryptic or incomplete:

fix: null check
wip
address PR feedback
bump version

By reading the actual code changes, AI can generate meaningful descriptions:

"Fixed a crash that occurred when loading dashboards with no data. Your experience should now be more reliable."

Getting Started with ReleaseFlow

1. Connect GitHub - Install the ReleaseFlow GitHub App
2. Select repository - Choose which repos to track
3. Configure schedule - Daily, weekly, or monthly
4. Choose channels - Slack, Discord, Email, or all

Your first AI-generated release notes will be ready in minutes.

Start Automating

Stop spending hours on release notes. Try ReleaseFlow free and let AI handle your changelog.