Product updates

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New pricing and allocations for basic, premium and business offerings.

Use your own domain to host your public LaunchNotes page. Instead of using the default project-name.launchnotes.io domain, you can request a custom host, which will allow you to use any domain, like updates.mycompany.com.

Here’s a list of all the small changes that went out in May. If it’s listed below that means it’s live.

We have removed the description field from the ReleaseType.

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Release links will allow you to add external documents and resources to your releases. Use these to keep track of everything related to the work that is getting done.

Our new Article editor will allow you to draft and save a rich text document that can be published when you are ready to share. The article has native support for embedded images and videos.

As always, we would love to get your feedback!

The subscribe button on public pages now keeps track of whether your public subscribers are logged in or not. If they are logged in, the button’s text changes from ‘Subscribe to updates’ to ‘Manage your subscription’ and takes them directly to their management page.

The toggle for release visibility will be replaced with an add/remove pattern. The controls will also move from the gutter into the main body of content on the release page.

Our new public page design system will make your public pages more approachable and impactful. Releases will be easier to find and groups of releases will be easier to scan.

The release summary will no longer be included in team and public note notifications. We felt that this was distracting from the note content.

If you have access to multiple projects and organizations, you now have a much cleaner organization / project switcher. This can be found under your user dropdown by clicking Switch organizations.

Passing a name instead of an ID in a category object when creating a release will now find or create a category of that name and associate it with the new release.

mutation CreateRelease($projectId: ID!) {
  createRelease(input: {
    release: {
      projectId: $projectId,
      name: "My fancy new release",
      summary: "A great release summary",
      categories: [{ name: "new category" }, { id: "cat_S1BYrPgYYNVtF" }]
    }
  }) {
    release {
      id
    }
  }
}

Project views now have a new check box that can be used to hide certain views from your public project page. This is great for teams that would like to only show certain views to their customers, like “Complete,” but would like deeper organization on their internal page.

Optimize your content for search and sharing. With our new sharing and SEO controls, you can take control of how your public LaunchNotes page looks in search and when sharing across platforms like Twitter, LinkedIn and Slack.

Release filtering will allow you to view releases by categories and project views. A new element on your internal release page will be available as well as new field arguments in our Releases API.

Our new email and slack notifications will provide more context about the associated release and notes, while being more accessible.

Assign a Release a status of In planning, In Development, or Completed. This will help teams communicate at the right fidelity throughout the life of a release.

Expected changes: We will be removing three fields from the Release type in our API.

Affected type: Release

Affected fields: announcement_body and announcement_title

When: April 6th, 2020

Summary: In the coming weeks, we will be introducing the new Release Article model, replacing our existing description and announcement functionality. This change not only affects our API users, but anyone using our Zapier integration to create releases dynamically. API Documentation: https://help.launchnotes.io/article/112-api-getting-started

If you have any questions or concerns, don’t hesitate to let us know at support@launchnotes.io