Release Notes
Get a human-readable summary of what the team completed recently and share it with stakeholders.
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Get a human-readable summary of what the team completed recently and share it with stakeholders.
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Release Notes is an AI-powered feature that compiles all your completed work and generates a concise summary. This is particularly useful for sharing updates with stakeholders via Slack.
Haystack leverages issue metadata like titles, descriptions, and parent tasks to generate release notes.
Haystack generates release notes for Scrum teams per sprint and for Kanban teams per week.
Release notes categorize your work into three buckets: Features, Bugs, and Other.
Each Release Notes bullet point contains a link to view underlying issues.
To automatically share release notes to a Slack channel, click "Send automatic updates" and select the desired channel.
Release notes will be sent automatically at the end of each sprint (for Scrum teams) and at the beginning of the following week (for Kanban teams). Example Slack alert:
To add Release Notes to other tools, copy the content to your clipboard by clicking "Copy text" near the Release Notes title.
You can share the page URL with other Haystack users to access the exact Release Notes. Non-Haystack users can be invited to the platform at no extra charge.
To create a summary for larger timeframes, select "Custom release notes" from the top right menu.
You can select dates up to 6 months in the past. All selected days start at 00:00 and end at 23:59 GMT.
Auto (Features/Bugs/Other)
By epic
Once you select your configurations, click "Generate". Generating release notes may take some time depending on your data size. You can leave the page and return later; your release notes will be available in the dashboard once generated.
No, release notes are cached after they have been generated. If you’d like to re-generate release notes, message us at
