Release Notes: Best Practices and Real-life Examples

You work hard to deliver new features and improvements to your products, but how do you communicate these changes to your users? How do you make sure users are aware of new functionality and updates?

In this video we’ll talk about the problems with neglected release notes and the related consequences. Then we’ll look at some release notes for the tools the K15t team uses everyday to help inspire your team to share the value of your product!

What are the best in-app release notes you've ever seen? Let us know in the comments. ⬇

00:00 - Intro
01:00 - What not to do with your release notes
02:49 - 1Password's release notes
04:36 - Slack's release notes
06:53 - Unreal Engine's release notes
09:33 - Adobe Creative Cloud's release notes
11:28 - OBS Studio's release notes
14:03 - Wrap up

#releasenotes #communication #customersatisfaction #customersuccess

[laoshu]

I love that you've started making more videos here, appreciate the information! 🙏

[machopungrotten]

Thanks for a nice video :) Just as a note, release notes on opensource software varies alot. For Apache Foundation projects they do have a process for it :) I did like the idea of small videos or screenshots, and might even end up using those in our products (technical ui less security software)

[laniedidathing]

Thank you! This was really insightful and very detailed 👏🏽👏🏽

[laniedidathing]

Thank you! This was really insightful and very detailed 👏🏽👏🏽