Release Note Prompt Generator
Suggests a question to check your release note actually answers — what a user needs to do, what changed for them, whether anything's breaking — before publishing it.
What this generator does
Draws a prompt to check a release note against, rather than writing one. Release notes fail in predictable ways — they describe the change instead of its effect, omit what users must do, or bury a breaking change under features — and a checklist catches those better than a template does.
What you'll get
This generator draws from a hand-checked list of 12 entries. Here is a spread of 6 of them, so you can see the style before you generate:
- Summarise the single most impactful change in one plain-language sentence.
- Note any action a user needs to take before or after upgrading.
- Explain the change in terms of the problem it solves, not the code that solves it.
- State whether this release includes a breaking change, clearly and early.
- Give the version number and the date at the top, where support will look for them.
- Group related small fixes under one heading instead of listing each separately.
A fixed sample of the list, not a live draw — your own results are picked at random from all 12, without repeating until the list runs out. Original authoring for Generate Random — general software release-note framing prompts.. Last reviewed 2026-07-18.
How to use this tool
- Press generate for a prompt.
- Check your draft against it, or generate again.
Common use cases
- Improving release-note quality
- Changelog-writing checklist
- Product-update communication
Limitations and good to know
- 12 fixed prompts covering general release-note failures — they check the note's structure and completeness, not whether the technical content of your specific note is accurate.
- Answering every prompt does not by itself make a release note good; the prompts catch omissions, not unclear writing.
- Nothing here drafts or rewrites your note — it only asks the question you then have to answer yourself.
Practical tips
- Answer each prompt as the user rather than as the author. The question is not what changed but what a reader now has to do differently, which is often nothing and should then be said.
Entries are chosen with your browser's cryptographic random number generator, so every entry on the list is equally likely. How Generate Random works.
Frequently asked questions
- How is this different from the bug report or PR title prompts?
- Each checklist targets a different document at a different point in the process — this one checks a release note aimed at users, the bug report prompts check a report aimed at whoever fixes it, and the PR title generator is a naming-convention reference rather than a checklist at all. Use the one matching what you're actually about to publish.