Keep your customers and team informed with Solo's AI-generated release notes. Solo analyzes your product updates and writes clear, user-friendly summaries, saving you time and ensuring your changelog is always up to date.
AI release notes introduction
Understand your product updates
Solo automatically creates release notes by reviewing your recent product updates. It reads the changes made by your team and translates them into plain English summaries. This provides a clear overview of what is new, changed, or fixed, so you can share updates with your users without spending hours writing them manually.
Automated summaries: Turn technical updates into user-friendly descriptions.
Team collaboration: Review, comment, and tag team members on specific updates.
Actionable insights: Automatically find help articles that need to be updated based on your new product changes.
Release notes page
Navigate your release notes
The Release Notes page gives you a complete view of your generated updates. From here, you can view past releases, manage upcoming ones, and manually generate new notes.
List of releases: View all release notes organized by their date range and schedule name.
Search and filter: Find specific past updates or filter by your custom schedule names.
Status tracking: See which release notes are pending approval or have already been published.
How Solo writes release notes
How the AI generates your notes
Solo connects directly to where your team builds your product. When it is time to generate a release note, Solo looks at the recent updates and writes a summary based on your customized guidelines.
Reads the updates: Solo reviews the work your team has completed over a specific time period.
Applies your voice: The AI uses your company's specific guidelines, templates, and product summary to write the notes in your preferred tone.
Groups related items: Solo categorizes individual updates into logical groups using your custom labels.
Links to tasks: Solo connects updates to their related task tickets, giving you full context on why a change was made.
Edit release notes
Refine and perfect your notes
While Solo provides a great starting point, you have full control to edit and organize the release notes before anyone else sees them.
Edit descriptions: Rewrite summaries and explain why a change matters to your users.
Add media: Upload images or videos to visually demonstrate new features.
Reorder and group: Drag and drop items into your preferred order and assign labels to group similar changes together.
Snooze items: Delay a specific update so it appears in your next scheduled release note instead.
Manual additions: Add entirely new items to the release note that might not have been captured automatically.
Schedule release notes
Automate your release schedule
Set up schedules to have Solo generate and publish release notes automatically at a cadence that works for your team.
Choose your frequency: Generate notes daily, weekly, every few weeks, or monthly.
Set publish delays: Choose to publish instantly or add a delay to give your team time to review.
Require approvals: Mandate that specific team members must approve the release notes before they are published.
Notify your team: Automatically send the finalized release notes to a designated Slack channel or email list.
Publish release notes
Share your release notes with your team and customers using automated schedules or manual publishing options.
Publish to Slack: Send your release notes to a specific Slack channel to keep your team informed.
Publish externally: Push your release notes to your connected documentation site or help center.
Copy and export: Copy the release notes formatted for Slack or standard text. You can also export the items to a CSV file.
Force publish: Immediately push a release note live to your configured channels at any time.
Release note approvals
Set up an approval workflow to review scheduled release notes before they are published.
Assign reviewers: Select team members to review and approve the release notes.
Receive notifications: Reviewers receive a notification when a release note is ready for review.
Require approval: Prevent scheduled release notes from publishing until all required reviewers approve the document.
Override approvals: Administrators can bypass the approval process and force publish the release notes if needed.