The sad part is, they're not even hard to generate any more.
I have a custom codex command that looks at the diff between my branch and main, a put together a neat changelog for public release notes.
They just don't want to put in any effort.
I, for one, go through all available updates and study the release notes and never use the "update all" button
(everything above is true except I actually do the exact opposite)
Wouldn’t it be great if companies use AI for their release notes. “Analyze all the PR request from the latest build. Write professional useful, high level details in the style of the best AppStore release notes.”
If only the company that owned LinkedIn was heavily invested in AI…
These are impossible to do for large enough products considering all the experiments, feature flags etc. I wonder if there should be a system API to add these dynamically 🤔
I have noticed a lot of apps have gotten very lazy with their release notes and just have the same message for every update. I wish Apple would do something about it.
LinkedIn Release Notes:
New: We added even more useless notifications.
Changed: We are now sending 10 messages that are actually just ads instead of 3.
Fixed: A bug prevented some useless notifications to be pushed to your phone. This is fixed now.
I mean, it's fair. LinkedIn's release notes have the same quality like the content published on the platform itself. It's all about consistency. Only the rocket emoji is missing 🚀
i think if apple and google has automatic translations more people would post actual changes but releases are usually rushed and done by low level devs who don’t really have the list or allocated time for it
The “bug fixes and other improvements” trend in release notes was first done by Instagram. They had so frequent releases that they didn’t have the time to write detailed release notes (as the story goes) so came up with that phrase.
No one complained so everyone else did it too
