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Please do these!

Any updates? Already 300+ voters

Yes, please!

This is a big one for me. I had a custom template that included the Issue Description which I used for my customer release notes document.

I would love to have the ability to select multiple fields to show on a Release Notes template

Hi guys, 

Any update on this one? I can see that it has 261 votes

This should help us automate release note without help from other tools/plugins 

Has a few people mentioned before me, Automated Release Notes is a good option. They also offer a free version on Atlassian Marketplace. 

I would prefer to have it native in Jira but meanwhile it really does the job, takes about 15 minutes to set up, after that you're set.

Is there any update?

It will be really good feature!

Yes please add custome template from JQL queries based on at least manuals fields picking? It's killing me not to be able to do that.

If it interests this group, please take a look at our recently released free version of Automated release notes app - https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1223567/automated-release-notes-for-jira-free?hosting=cloud&tab=overview

It offers a better way to generate release notes than what Jira natively offers. There is a limitation of 5 automations per month but if you are happy to use manual copy/paste there is no restriction at all.

This is a step backwards in terms of moving to a cloud solution. Please consider putting this functionality in the hosted version.

This should be enhanced. It is important that we have ability to Customized release notes.

Is there a plan to get this completed? I would love to use Release notes, but currently we cant as there is no flexibility to add other information. 

Hi, I would like to add the Sprint field on the Release page along with other default fields. Any idea when this feature will be available?

Can't wait for this

+1 Would REALLY love to be able to use a custom template so that we don't need a separate manual process for this.

Please fix this, it's a thing that just need to be automated in a modern CD system

A must for us. Would save the DEV management and PMO team a lot of time, since information is being extracted and placed into docx documents.

Hope to see this feature soon.

This would be useful.

It will be just amazing !

This is needed

Yes Yes very need

must have

It is a MUST!

This is needed! Jira Cloud is so rudimentary.

We used this feature in Jira Server to inform about prerequisites which needs to be done before release or after release.

Now we have Jira Cloud and we are unable to do this.

Yes, please, this would help me a lot!  I would hope to provide my own template with placeholders to have Jira data filled in accordingly.

Chris, you may want to give Automated release notes a try.

We would like to have a specific field for release notes which can be part of the work flow when ticket/issue is completed as often the title of the ticket can not adequately describe the problem and/or the changes that resulted from implementing the feature or bug fix.

Nikki, 

I was creating the Release notes that JIRA already allows you to generate and then copy them and manually modify them on a wiki page according to my requirements.

Thankfully I no longer have to do this because I have moved away from that company. 

Muhammed - can you share your manual work around with us in the meantime

thanks

I think everyone needs to understand that JIRA cloud is fairly young compared to the on-premise solution and will only improve in time. You can't expect everything to be available. Even though I very much need this feature now, I am happy to manually perform what I need until a solution becomes available.

Jonathon, did you give Automated Release Notes a try?

I'll just reiterate all the other comments. it would be great to easily choose which fields to group the release notes by and configure which fields we want to make visible.

In my situation, having the ability to group release notes by Components first is the critical one as we run a large application with many modules. Users want to see the release notes specific to the modules that they use.

It so simple do it at standalone JIRA, please, implement minimum — markdown version.

Going to JIRA Cloud from JIRA server has been a big disappointment.  Over and over there is a loss of functionality.  This loss of functionality (e.g. custom reports, importing a project) is captured in issues which go unresolved for years by Atlassian.

Yes I need this functionality.

If you're interested in doing something outside of Jira using the rest api to build release notes, you can take a look at a node.js open-source project I did for sending out release notes. Check out my JiraRnGen project on github https://github.com/applitect/JiraRnGen

Ryan, the compilation of release notes should still be useful for your team if you need to

• filter out certain issues based on different criteria (e.g. release notes should only include New Features & not any bugs)
• fetch only certain attributes for these issues, including custom fields

About ability to generate HTML from that data, at the moment you can just copy paste the email that our add-on generates. We do intend to enhance HTML generation & a few more features that are on this thread.
For now, we are looking for initial feedback on the features so we can prioritise releases.

@Anand Inamdar Is the Amoeboids Automated Release Notes plugin useful for a team that wants to generate release notes in HTML format but isn't interested in the "email to users" functionality? My team includes release notes in a Changes document which is distributed in our downloadable software package, but we don't have a need to email users.

Dear all, we have recently released a cloud add-on to automate release notes compilation. Please take a look & let us know what further customisations should be needed?
https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/amoeboids.releasenotes/cloud/overview 

+1 Would like some method to customize release notes in the cloud version. Even a workaround would be fine.

Bumping this as we'd like to be able to customize our release notes, as specified here: https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA041/Creating+a+Custom+Release+Notes+Template+Containing+Release+Comments

This is currently a pain point for us as well. Having the ability to customize the template would streamline the process for our Tech Pubs group.

Is there any more news on this? It's a really useful feature for us as it massively speeds up the time it takes for us to formally release our software. Would be much appreciated if this feature could be added to the cloud so we can migrate to it.

being able to choose one or two levels of grouping e.g. by issue type / severity / component / etc would be amazing

I agree that this would be very useful. We have a solution that uses custom fields and a confluence page to display things like a release-appropriate description of an issue, whether that issue is internal or public, and sorts them by type. But this approach still involves a lot of manual labor. Having this already built into JIRA would be a huge time saver.

Rodney makes a great point- I second this.

The current way release notes work isn't much use to us. Ideally we want to be able to configure what gets shown in the release notes, choosing fields and ideally being able to select comments to add as well (tick a box on the comment to have it included in release notes). Plus being able to push/publish/SFTP or similar to our web site would be very useful.

We use JIRA for internal issue tracking and having the ability to export a customized list, categorized by issue type would be great. Personally, I love the HTML output- just need to customize the content.

This would be really useful.

We use JIRA Cloud for our open source application and we need to have the name of the Assignee in the Release Notes to give the developer the credits he deserves.
Currently we need to add them manually. We just moved to JIRA because we wanted to have more control on our releases, too bad we still need to edit the release notes manually.

I absolutly agree. Delivering release notes with just the titles in it is useless for customers. Thus, we really need to be able to get more information in there.

The default html/text templates are rather useless. Not being able to generate custom release notes is huge loss of functionality coming from the server version to on-demand. As an interim solution, simply offering some more detailed templates that display more relevant fields such as the release notes field would be a huge improvement.

This would be extremely valuable for us as well. The title field for an issue is usually different to what we would like to display as the title of the feature when displaying it as part of the release notes.

If the custom template could work with custom fields that would be perfect!!