When requesting Release Notes from JIRA, the generated overview contains all issues for the specified version regardless their status or resolution. Since the releasenotes don't contain any further information like status or resolution, it is not clear what has been fixed in a release.

Normally one would, ofcourse, move all open issues to another version, but in our case we do a lot of builds of our "platform" which is then given to the various other teams that depend on it. So before we do a formal release, a lot of builds have been taken place and we would like to include a list of things that have been changed and have that one grow up to the point of the first actual release.

So, I would like to be able to generate releasenotes for unreleased versions (typically a branch version like 1.8) and have either a list of things that have been closed or resolved, OR a list of issues including their status and resolution.