Release Notes Customization

[Pavan]

Hello - Planning to use the Release Notes option available with in Jira to generate a Release Notes but when i generate in Confluence at the bottom below options coming as blank

Summary

New Features

Improvements to existing features

Bug Fixes

Question: Is there a way above fields can be added in Jira any where, so that it will be written at the time of creating a Fix Version/Release? 

[Jens Schumacher - Released_so · Accepted solution]

Hi @Pavan

As @Tomislav Tobijas pointed out, the out-of-the-box release notes functionality of Jira is rather limited. If you want more control over the templates, and have AI write the release notes for you, take a look at Released in the Atlassian Marketplace. 

Hope this helps,
Jens

[Lukas Nicolai_Seibert · Accepted solution]

Hey @Pavan welcome to the Community 👋

If using a third-party app is an option for you, I'd recommend trying AutoPage for this purpose.

With AutoPage, you can:

• Automatically generate Confluence pages directly from Jira tickets

• Populate these release notes with predefined fields (including summaries)

Let me know if you'd like more details about setting this up!

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1218503 

hope this helps! 

[Tomislav Tobijas · Accepted solution]

Hi @Pavan ,

Can you maybe share a screenshot of what you mean by "...options coming as blank..."?

Also, release notes, as far as I know, are not customizable > meaning you cannot customize the template itself, but you can edit the page before publishing.
There are a couple of feature requests on that topic - this one might be the most relevant: JRACLOUD-87128: Allow users to customize version summary page, add fields 

Cheers,
Tobi

[Pavan]

thank you for your time.

I mean, instead of updating Summary, New Features, Bug fixes details in confluence and publish, is there a way we can have this written at the time of creating Release/Fix Version? 

[Troy Anderson]

@Pavan:  No, those 'sections' have to be manually populated.  Really pathetic 'feature'.  And it was recently added too.  

[Rhys Diab _Rogue Wombat Software_]

Hi @Pavan , as some of the other commenters have mentioned the built-in release notes functionality has it's limitation.

I created an app (Release Notes AI) which gives you more flexibility.

You can customise how the notes are generated if you want the generated notes to categorise sections like Summary, New Features etc.

Full disclosure I'm associated with the app.

Hope that helps!

Kind Regards,

Rhys