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  • ✍️ Writing Empathetic Release Notes
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  • 🛠️ Bulk-Link Features to a Release
  • 🌐 Public Changelog
  • 💡 Pro Tip: Use Releases for Upcoming Work Too

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Release Notes & Public Changelog

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Celebrate what you’ve shipped. Communicate what’s coming. Close the loop with the people who care.

Cycle makes it easy to turn your roadmap into shareable, shippable release notes—and to publish a beautiful public changelog in just a few clicks.


🚀 What Are Releases?

A Release in Cycle is a collection of completed features grouped by a specific launch or milestone. Releases are where you write your product marketing, document impact, and notify relevant users.

You can:

  • Draft and edit release notes directly in Cycle

  • Link existing Features to a Release

  • Write each note with full context (quotes, feedback, status)

  • Mark the release as Ready once all notes are documented

  • Publish when you’re done—and close the loop automatically 🎯


✍️ Writing Empathetic Release Notes

Cycle brings the voice of the customer straight into your product marketing flow.

  • Start from scratch or link existing Features

  • Use quotes and feedback to tell the “why” behind each launch

  • Embed media (Arcade, Loom, Tella, YouTube) to demo new experiences

  • Draft confidently—even before release dates are final

Need to prep a note for something that’s still TBD? Use the “No Release” default bucket and assign it later.


🗓️ Publish a Release

Once all features in a release are marked Completed and notes are finalized:

  1. Click Publish to make the release live.

  2. Cycle will automatically notify:

    • Assignees of the features involved

    • Customers (if Slack or email updates are enabled)

  3. The release appears instantly in your public changelog.


🛠️ Bulk-Link Features to a Release

Need to ship a batch of updates?

  • Go to your roadmap view

  • Multi-select the relevant Features

  • Use the bulk action menu to link them to a specific release

This makes it easy to turn sprint completions into changelog-ready updates in seconds.


🌐 Public Changelog

Your changelog isn’t just a list—it’s a product marketing asset.

Use Cycle’s built-in publishing tools to customize a public changelog page that matches your brand.

You can:

  • Choose from modern templates

  • Customize colors, fonts, tags, backgrounds

  • Add your logo, favicon, and domain

  • Decide whether to display Bugs & Improvements

  • Embed product demos and media directly into updates

Need a live link? Cycle hosts your changelog for you, or you can configure a custom domain via Workspace Settings → Releases.


💡 Pro Tip: Use Releases for Upcoming Work Too

Planning a roadmap for Q3? Use a future-dated release like “Q3 Roadmap” to:

  • Collect features that are on the horizon

  • Draft early product marketing

  • Share vision and progress internally or externally

This turns Cycle into a dynamic source of truth—across what’s been shipped and what’s planned.


Releases and changelogs help you tell the story behind your product. They make progress visible, customers happy, and your team proud of what they’ve built.

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