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How to make a comprehensive jira release notes for your systems and processes?

Jira offers the service to create release notes for a particular project version. The Jira release notes have all issues in the particular project that are patented with a precise “Fix For” version. You can generate the release notes in different formats ranging from HTML to plain text so they can be a part of different documents.

Here are two major example format templates mentioned- Text and HTML via Velocity Templates. You can further create and add format templates to the system.

Generating Release Notes

Choose Projects from the Navigation Bar

Pick your project from the given list or choose View all projects to choose yours.

Choose Versions in the sidebar of the project (when using Jira software, click on Releases in the project sidebar.

Choose the Version who release notes you want to make by tapping on it.

Choose Release Notes.

Select the “Configure Release Notes” link to organize the release notes 

Once the Configure Release Notes page appears, pick the needed project version for which you want to generate the release notes in the “Please select version”.

Choose the desired release note format- there are options of HTML as well as text format templates in the “Please select style”.

Select “Create” to generate the release notes with the required template in the needed format. The release notes will come on the screen and can be copied and pasted to any application.

If you are using Jira Core Cloud, then choose Jira release notes instead. 

How to add a new format template?

There is a need to make velocity template just the same as examples mentioned in –releasenotes-text.vm and releasenotes-tml.vm. Refer to the Jira API documentation and user guide.

You can modify the title in the template along with the code in the given text area. There is no need to modify the other sections of the template.

Include the new format template the present list in the jira-config properties file. Add corresponding entries to the present values of the following properties for every new template format.

Jira.releasenotes.templatenames Jira.releasenotes.templates

Notes:

Keep the corresponding entries of both the properties in the same order.

If these properties are not available in your confluence release notes file, then:

Add a property name for every property.

Follow it by an “=”

Follow it by the property’s corresponding content <default-value/> part copied from your Jira’s installation’s jpm.xml file.

Start including the conforming entries to the new format template.

The new format template is accessible to be chosen as a release note format template.

There are some of the simplest ways to generate release notes in different formats. Right from custom release notes creation to distribution, the automated release notes Jira can be processed.

 Create confluence release notes, PDF release notes, email release notes and modify the layouts to match your requirement. With the help of JQL, you can choose the Jira issues included along with what details you want to reveal for each.