Makelog Changelog

Makelog now supports Aha! as a source integration! Users can now see product changes tracked in Aha! in their Makelog Change Feed. This feature offers a real-time view of Aha! Epics and Features that are AI-enhanced via Makelog, making changes more human-readable and ready to release.

Change Feed filters

You can now filter the Change Feed by labels and projects from originating source integrations like Jira, Shortcut, Asana, and more.

Now you can add tags and feature flags to your Releases! You can customize the colors for all of your custom tags. Feature flags, since they aren't displayed to your users, will show up as a neutral gray.

You can also now filter the internal Releases page, with filters for the Public Changelog coming soon!

Now you can share Releases to Slack channels so internal stakeholders can stay up to date on the latest product changes.

This is also great for sharing in shared Slack channels with your customers!

The latest version of Makelog helps PMs easily see what's done-done, quickly generate a summary of Changes, and easily publish to their Changelog with just a couple of clicks.

What's exciting

• Changes + The Change Feed: the easiest way to know where something's at - ever think to yourself, "This issue is marked as in-progress, but WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?!" We give you the concept of... a Change! A Change ties together the issue status, the environment it's been deployed to (think: staging, prod, etc.), the type, and whether it's customer-facing or not. Changes populate the Change Feed, the easiest way for a PM to see exactly where a given Change is at!

  

  

• Augmentative AI translates issues into something Business People understand AND helps you triage what's ready for release - Makelog applies augmentative AI to create titles for Changes using your Jira, Linear, and Shortcut issues to make them more human readable! We also use AI to infer the type (if it's not already on the issue!) and whether or not it's a customer-facing Change

• Makelog Releases: the faster, easier, and funner (yes, funner) way to write change communication - it's easier than ever to create release notes, changelog posts, or status updates now with our all new Releases functionality! Releases works beautifully with Changes: all you have to do is select the Changes from the Change Feed you want to release, hit "Release," and voila! Makelog automatically populates the list of Changes at the bottom of your post.

  

  

  • Want to curate it further? Go right ahead! Our new Release editor supports markdown and inline images so you can tell the story you want to tell, without spending an eternity writing up every single Change.

Let us know what you think!

Makelog V2 users can now update their organization, payment, and Changelog page details in the newly redesigned Settings pages!

A quick tour of Settings

Organization - update your company's logo and name, and invite new teammates.

Billing - see your invoice history and plan details

Changelog - personalize your hosted public page. Add a custom domain, change theme colors, add a new title, and manage your users' email subscriptions

API - generate an API token to update Changes in Makelog

Your audience can now subscribe via email to your changelog and set preferences for the frequency, type, and scope.

This means users can opt to hear from you daily, weekly, or monthly, and those who care about just the new features or just a certain product scope can get updates on those things. Check out the video to see what your users will see!

Note: this feature is available on our Team plan.

You can now see all of your updates in a single place and control them with the new visibility pills. The pills make it easy to switch between public, private, and draft updates on a single page, allowing for greater organization and control of your changelog entries.

We have improved the overall look and feel of the Internal Changelog with a redesigned Action Bar to bring a cleaner design with a lighter background and third-party branded colors for the Slack and Twitter buttons. It's now easier to find share buttons and important actions for both published items and drafts.

Managing release communication for beta features behind a feature flag has always been a challenge. How do you share updates about a feature in progress with early adopters, without confusing users who don't have access?

Now, mutual Makelog-LaunchDarkly users can add their feature flags to Makelog to selectively show in-app updates through the Makelog widget just to users who are entitled to those features!

Makelog users can now create custom groups of Slack channels, such as "Enterprise Customers," or "Early Adopters," to easily share product updates with certain groups of Slack channels!

Now you can map custom fields from Aha into Makelog to enrich your product updates with metadata you've already captured in Aha.

Now, you can easily reuse your favorite backgrounds.

Makelog users can now filter their internal product ledger by public and private entries. Note: this filter will not appear on the public Ledger.

You can now add your Segment write key in Settings > Analytics to have page events sent to your Segment account

Mutual Makelog and Segment users will now be able to add Segment's tracking snippet to their public page. This will help you understand how many views you're getting on your product updates!

Now you can choose whether to show the search, filters, or heading text on your public Ledger. Look for these options under Settings > Branding

We have redesigned and added new features to the attachment editor.

• Added new custom gradient options

• Added new scale slider

• Added one more corners option

With this small UX cue, users are now able to see how many updates have been drafted on Makelog's navigation menu.

Previously, we pulled in the update author in the Slack update. Now you can give credit to the developers who shipped the feature by selecting Linear assignees as contributors!

Slack destinations can now be configured to auto send internal and public updates upon publish. Select this option by editing your Slack configuration settings under "Destinations" in the side panel view!

Makelog Ledger pages are now paginated for better network and browser performance

You can now filter on a variety of custom fields to more easily filter on the updates you care about!

• On the Sources page, we now surface the organization or project name where applicable. This is useful for teams that have, for example, more than one GitHub organization syncing to Makelog to be able to identify which source they're editing at a glance

• We added some color to the type tags on your Public Ledger page. scope tags are still in a neutral gray for now!

• Now multiple image attachments on a Ledger entry will display via a carousel. Previously, you could add one featured image and subsequent images would display as smaller thumbnails.

• Now when selecting a Publish date, our date picker defaults to today's date, saving you a few extra clicks/scrolls to make a selection.

Many of our customers tend to tee up and draft their product updates before they're ready to publish things. Since Makelog encourages one post per meaningful, user-facing change, this can often mean several updates to publish at once!

Now users can bulk publish their drafts from the Drafts page by clicking "Publish," selecting the drafts they want, and hitting "Publish."

Now you can share code examples with your users in dark mode!

Makelog now allows filtering inbox items by Github release

We have added the ability to change the border radius of your uploaded images!

Makelog users are now able to select which Asana Tasks they want synced to Makelog with Selective Sync.

If your team uses Semantic PRs, you're in luck! Semantic Type and Semantic Scope are now available in the inbox filters.

If you have an existing connection, you'll need to resync from the Sources page

We have added the ability to change the scale of your uploaded images!

Before, you couldn't undo an accidental archive of an inbox entry, now you can by hitting "Undo" in the success toast.

When linking to a specific ledger entry, Makelog now generates an open graph image using the featured image of that entry!

There is now an option to hide custom Ledger fields from appearing in the filters. This is useful for fields like Link to Documentation, where it wouldn't make sense to filter on the values.

The inbox now allows you to filter Github Pull Requests by "merged" and "closed" status

Now when uploading or editing media to add to your updates, you have the ability to select a beautiful gradient background or edit to create your own!

We will be adding more customization options in the future!

You can now include your Loom videos in your Makelog Ledger by adding the URL in the media field. See our own Loom video demonstrating how!

When sharing links to public ledgers on social media, there will now be a custom preview image to help it stand out!

You can now change the published date in case you need to backdate an entry or schedule an entry to be published in the future

Engage your users by sharing product updates directly to Twitter!

Makelog users are now able to select which Linear issues they want synced to Makelog with Selective Sync.

Users can now open the ledger entry creation modal using C on their keyboard!

This also means you can edit from anywhere within Makelog! Just hit that C key!

Using our new live-preview customization feature, organizations are able to have more control over their customers' experience.

Makelog now allows you to share your product updates via Slack, or by copying a link to the update and sharing it wherever you want!

There is a new Getting Started page with a checklist to make it easier to learn the core concepts of Makelog. Find Getting Started in the side nav.

You can now upload logos and favicons for the hosted site, rather than specifying a url

RSS feeds now support images! Here's the Makelog team at our Seattle retreat

You can now subscribe to RSS by adding /rss to the end of your public ledger URL. This url can also be used to subscribe a Slack channel using /feed subscribe <your url>

Now users can attach images, gifs, and video to their Ledger entries!

Now, when you hover over the tooltip for the Autofill button, Makelog will tell you when no custom fields are mapped.

Easily share new product updates with a simply Copy + Paste into email, Slack messages, or anywhere else! Now you can Copy to Clipboard any list of Ledger entries in view.

Now you can embed your company's Ledger on any page, such as in your documentation. You can also selectively show the Ledger entries filtered by Type and Scope using query string parameters.

We added support for server-side filtering and search as part of a broader effort to make the Inbox faster to use!

Added support for filtering by custom fields in Makelog.

Now when you add a new entry, Makelog will show you a success toast as feedback that you have, indeed, successfully added a new entry.

Now your Inbox entries link out to their original tickets/PRs so you can easily open them for extra context as needed.

You can also now filter the Inbox for entries from just one source at a time! Previously, if you had multiple sources (i.e. GitHub and Jira) connected, we would always show you entries from both.

The Ledger breaks the concept of release notes by allowing you to associate your product and engineering work and communicate it at the feature level

Users who have mapped custom fields from Jira and other sources can now autofill these fields when creating a new entry. This makes it easier to reuse the context you've already captured in your upstream tools.

Previously, ignoring an item in the Inbox would make the item disappear right away, but then reappear the following day. Now this works as expected!

Hit the toggle to change the visibility from public to private.

We're happy to announce that the Inbox Page is now filterable by a set of source metadata fields.

What's Changed

• After successfully publishing a post, the link will be available in the success toast. For public posts, this will be the public link. For internal posts, this will be the private link.

• The link to the public changelog post is made visible when viewing a post from the home page.

🛠️ Improvements

• Data source filters are now persisted locally until the user removes them

• The labels selection now has an autocomplete component, where the default values are pulled from other posts

⭐ What's New

Team Management

• We've added a tab to the settings page where you can view and invite users to your Makelog team

Workspace Improvements

• We've added the ability to search and filter your posts

• We've added post previews when hovering the titles of posts

• We've also added some defaults to the date picker, to make it easier to browse your data sources

🛠️ Fixes and Improvements

• The filters and sort on the Workspace page are now persisted

• The filters in the data source panel are now persisted

⭐ What's New

Google Analytics for your public changelog

• We've added support for adding Google Analytics page tracking to your public changelog!

🛠️ Fixes and Improvements

• Added a back button to navigate back to your public changelog page from a specific post

• Made public changelog responsive so it's more polished when viewing on mobile

• Fixed issue where your company logo would flicker upon initial public changelog page load

⭐ What's New

Export to Markdown or HTML

• You can now export Makelog posts to Markdown or HTML by copying the code on the Editor screen.

Templates

• You can also start with a Template, whether that's Makelog's default template or one of yours from your last weekly update.

Slack destination

• We also now support Slack as a destination! You can publish your posts to a public or private Slack channel.

⭐ What's New

• Now you can automatically pull in all of your tickets and PRs by pressing "Auto Populate." Here's a sneak peak at how it works:

🛠️ Fixes and improvements

• Improved spacing/formatting issues in some users' posts (we recently switched from EditorJS to Rich Markdown Editor)

🗺️ What's Coming

• We're starting work on the Slack integration, giving you the ability to share your Makelog posts to internal Slack channels or in shared Slack channels with your customers!

These last few weeks, we've been laser-focused on shipping our app redesign. The new app redesign includes a revamp of the public facing Makelog page, a simplified app experience, and a much more streamlined Editor for your product update writing pleasure :-)

🆕 What's New

• New public page look and feel! Our new layout for public pages was inspired by modern changelogs, but still incorporates helpful elements from our old layout, such as search, filter, and sort capabilities.

• New editor built on Rich Markdown Editor: we've transitioned to a new editor that's more flexible than our last editor!

• Now, we support Markdown and several new formatting options for code snippets, images, quotes, and various tool tips, like these:

Now you can add these types of info blocks!

Here's a tip

🛠️ Fixes and improvements

• Simplified the editor screen so post metadata, such as labels, visibility (internal or public), and publish date is now shown above the notepad instead of on separate tabs

• Added the ability to Autosave posts

• Fixed a bug where Autosave required a unique post Title in order to save

Let us know what you think of the new look!

This week, we've been tackling a few usability enhancements based on user feedback!

✨ What's New

Kyle added new Settings pages to the app, so now you can:

• Set a custom favicon and logo on your Public Makelog page

• Upgrade your plan

🛠 Improvements

• Added the ability to set permalinks at the post level on your public Makelog

• All posts on the Public page are now expanded by default

🐛 Fixes

• Remove redirect to Workspace tab after saving a post.

• Fixed undefined error in Page title when a user has not filled out the Display Name

What's New

• We've added search, sorting, and filtering capabilities to the public Makelog page - this will make it much easier for users to find relevant updates!

• You can also now customize your public Makelog page with your own custom logo and link to your company's website

• Added the ability for GSuite users to sign up for and log into Makelog with Google OAuth!

Improvements

• Improved page load speed on the editor