Engage your users by sharing product updates directly to Twitter!

Drive product and feature awareness by sharing updates directly to Twitter!

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

Select issues from specific Linear Teams 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!_

Create Faster with 'C' Hotkey!

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

Customize your Public Ledger page with Live Preview!

We have some new widgets ready to be used in your web page. Check out our [getting started guide](https://app.makelog.com/settings/widgets).

All new Makelog widgets

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!

Increase visibility into product updates by sharing via Slack

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.

Getting Started page

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

Image uploading improvements

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

RSS feeds support images

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>`

Ledger now supports RSS

Release Status

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

Create more engaging Ledger updates with images, gifs, and videos!

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

Better autofill tool tip messages

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.

Copy to Clipboard: easily share your Ledger entries across any channel

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.

Ledger Embed: share your product updates feed on any page

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

Faster filtering and search for the Inbox 

Added support for filtering by custom fields in Makelog.

Now you can filter the Inbox by custom fields!

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.

Minor UX improvements for the Ledger

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.

Minor UX improvements for the Inbox

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

Introducing the Makelog Ledger

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.

Autosync your custom fields from Jira, Linear, GitHub, and more!

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!

Fixed issue where ignored Inbox items would appear again the next day

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

Now you can change the visibility of your Ledger entries!

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



Inbox Filtering: now you can filter to see a cleaner feed of PRs and issues

Users can choose which labels to subscribe to

 **What's Changed** 

*   You can now embed videos in your posts! You can either access the video option from the menu, or paste a valid video link in the editor.
     

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*   Users can now subscribe to your changelog via RSS!
     
    
     
    
     
    
*   You can now customize a url to filter on specific labels by adding them to the query string. For example, if you wanted to share or bookmark a link to my changelog that would only display posts labeled "Feature" or "Improvement", you can use a link of the form `https://makelog.releases.live?labels=Feature,Improvement`
     

 **Fixes and Improvements** 

*   Fixed a bug where refreshing the post editor would remove the post id from the url

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Video Embeds and RSS subscriptions

 **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.

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Post URL visibility updates

 

 **🛠️ 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

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Filtering and labels UX Improvements

Search the content of your posts, and filter by status, visibility, or author

Select from frequently used intervals, or since the date of your last published post

 

 **⭐ 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

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Team Management and Workspace Improvements

 

 **⭐ 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

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UI improvements and Google Analytics support!

 

 **⭐ 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.

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Export to HTML, templates, and Slack destination

 

 **⭐ 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!

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We shipped autopopulate!

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!

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Shipped: New and improved Makelog

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

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🆕 New Settings

You've always been able to add a custom subdomain to our releases.live domain, but now paid users can add a fully custom domain to their Makelog page!
  

 **What's New** 

 

*   Users can now add Custom domains - docs [here](https://app.gitbook.com/@makelog/s/makelog/your-organization/public-makelog)
     

 

 **Improvements** 

 

*   Added `Cycle` as a new Linear filter
     
*   Added new billing page and ability to upgrade via Stripe

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We now support custom domains!

So excited to share that we've now shipped two more Data Source integrations: Linear and GitHub.
 

Now, you can import your merged PRs in GitHub or issues from Linear for streamlined sharing of product updates!
  

 **What's New** 

 

*   Added support for GitHub integration (for more detail, see our Docs page [here](https://makelog.gitbook.io/makelog/github))
     
*   Added support for Linear integration ((for more detail, see our Docs page [here](https://makelog.gitbook.io/makelog/linear))
     
*   Improved existing placeholder template
     

 

 **Improvements** 

 

*   We also added the ability to see your Data Source sync status now when you connect a Data Source!
     

We hope our new Data Source integrations make it easier for our users to keep track of everything that ships!

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We shipped new integrations!

 

 **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

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Now you can add your own custom logo!

So excited to finally share that after 2 months since starting Makelog, we've shipped our MVP! We're actively adding new beta testers to the platform (ideally ones who are using Clubhouse or Jira).
 

 

 
  

 ****What's New**** 

 

*   🚀 Users can sync tickets from Clubhouse or Jira for easy reference when writing release notes!
     
*   🕶️ Your updates also get published to a nice URL --> yourcompany.releases.live.
     

 

 ****Improvements**** 

 We're sure you'll run into bugs :D and wanted to thank you in advance for surfacing them to our team! Email JJ at [jj@makelog.io](mailto:jj@makelog.io) directly with any and all feedback!
  

 ****Coming soon**** 

 

*   New integrations!
     
*   API access