About this template

Release notes are an opportunity to keep your customers excited about your investment in the product. Well-written release notes can alert customers of new features with your product and remind them of the value of your product. Use this product release notes template and best practices as a guide to writing engaging release notes for your customers.

This template covers information about:

• Product release notes basics
• Release notes best practices
• Release notes template

This template is for:

• Product managers
• Marketing
• Managers and supervisors
• Anyone who needs to train people about this topic

How to use and customize this template

This product release notes template covers the most universal and crucial information on this topic. We added some empty sections and question fields that you can customize to make the organization’s template relevant. If you don’t need to and want to use the template like it is now, you are free to chuck these parts. In that case, the only thing you need to do is change details like your organization’s name and the training duration.

Feel like changing the template up entirely? You are welcome to. You can change anything about the template. It’s also possible to remove sections, add new ones, add additional questions, and add different content. Keep in mind that you need to define learning objectives for each new or changed section. Our advice? Learn how our templates work, then turn it into whatever works best for you.