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Release notes

Meaning in product management, with examples

nounCore term

In product management, release notes means: A short document that tells users or customers what is new, changed or fixed in a particular version of a product.

In Turkish: sürüm notları, yenilikler notu

How it is used

Written by PMs, product marketers or technical writers and published in the app, the help center or the app store. Good release notes explain the benefit to users, not internal ticket names. A related word is changelog.

Example sentences

  1. Please check the release notes before Monday so support knows what changed.

  2. The release notes just said “bug fixes”, and customers complained.

Common collocations

  • write release notes
  • publish release notes
  • in the release notes
  • release notes for version 2.0
  • releaseA new version of a product that is made available to users, or the act of making it available, often containing several features and fixes.
  • launchThe moment a new product or feature is made available to users, together with the marketing, sales and support activities planned around it.
  • shipTo release a product, feature or fix to users so that they can actually start using it.
  • featureA piece of functionality in a product that lets users do something, such as search, dark mode or saving a payment card.

This word in other fields

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