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We’ve talked in the past about Calendar Versioning aka calver and how many teams use it as the basis of their release versioning schema…

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We’ve just launched support for prerelease versioning in our GitHub app. Add a label with any of the following names to your release pull…

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Using tags when posting your release notes to Twitter lets you share your notes in specific content streams that other users monitor and…

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Publishing prereleases serve as a dress rehearsal for the formal release. Deploying prereleases helps your entire organization as well as…

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Release notes add value to the smallest teams, helping to kick off important interactions with end-users. Their value scales as the team…

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Working to support and grow the community your team focuses on, is one of many growth channels and a way to gather feedback quickly from…

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While developing our Twitter Release Note Integration, we reviewed hundreds of changelog tweets and talked with multiple teams about why…

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We recently released automatic posting of changelogs to Twitter to help customers engage with their communities and get feedback on product…

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Twitter has become one of the leading platforms for teams to share their release notes on. In the last 15 days, over 700 organizations…

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Using your changelog to updating your followers to product changes via twitter helps to: Increase engagement with new features Alert users…

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Product development spans multiple tools that each hold key information, critical to understanding the context of a release and the impact…

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Keeping internal teams up to date with what has changed and which features or fixes are coming down the pipeline is one of the most…

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We’re on GitHub Marketplace! If you’re looking to manage your subscription through the GitHub marketplace, you can now find us through it :D…

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Cyber threats are at an all-time high, and malicious actors continue to find innovative ways to impact organizations worldwide from…

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Django is the web framework for perfectionists with deadlines which is why we’ve been using it for over ten years to build applications that…

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With multiple teams transitioning to 100% remote due to COVID-19, we seem to get asked how to facilitate collaborative coding while fully…

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We’re big advocates of semantic versioning; we believe using semver provides the right mix of readability, scalability, and ease of use…

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Why is traceability within your pipeline important? Why do specifications such as DO178C, ISO 26262, and IEC61508 place such a weight on…

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15 Years of Centralized Continuous Integration In February of 2005, Jenkins first made its debut and quickly became the de facto continuous…

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We all rely on third-party packages to build our software products. Whether those dependencies are internal components or open-source…

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We've built Next Release to bring many of our favorite parts of the open-source software development process to organizations of all sizes…

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Release notes should be shared. They have essential information that team members focused on sales, marketing, customer support, and other…

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Utilizing frameworks helps reduce change failure rates, increase deployment rates, and eliminate maintenance overhead associated with…

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We recently released a dashboard showcasing your development team's performance at the organization level. The panel has its limits and…

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As we've discussed in past articles, there are four key metrics used to measure developer teams' performance: lead time to change…

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If you have our app installed in one of your Github organizations, you received a notification that Next Release has requested additional…

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The murder of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor is a continuation of the systemic racism and inequality that impacts our…

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Last week, we decided to implement a weekly activity email, a project that shouldn't require much drama. We just wanted to show each week…

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What is a Pull Request A pull request (PR) is a change you’re requesting to be made against a particular body of work, tending to be a…

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When I first read about Github's cli tool, my first thought was "uhh... isn't that just like...git?" But as so often happens, I was dead…

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Deployment frequency is the easiest of the four key DevOps metrics to track, and the one we started our DevOps journey off with monitoring…

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Measuring lead time for change is one of the more difficult DevOps key metrics to measure due to the infinite number of ways teams ideate…

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Who do you let merge changes into production? Are you confident enough to allow someone new add changes on their first day joining the…

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How many changes until an issue makes it through to production? It's going to happen no matter what your test coverage is or how many static…

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Taking time away from tools and automation Coming from the software engineering side before getting into DevOps, it has been an ongoing…

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Write Code, Not Reports! We shipped a number of features making it dead simple to communicate changes across every project: Custom Emails…

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Velocity - The measure of how quickly your team can build features, bugs, enhancements, or complete story points. Why is this how teams…

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Adding Autocomplete For Choice Fields Without Really Trying The Next Release backend is written with Django Rest Framework, and since we…

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Tired of Being Asked "What Shipped Last Week?" If you're tired of being asked what got shipped and when, Next Release Reports may be your…

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Informing team members or customers of upcoming changes helps to reduce the number of changes that result in your solution operating worse…

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Release orchestration is the management of releasing and deploying your software application into your non-development environments. A team…

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Welcome to the world of developer operations, a massive ecosystem of tools, processes, and ways to enhance every team across your…

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There are many benefits from maintaining a changelog, like increasing customer feedback, condensing internal update cycles, and having a…

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We help a lot of teams with their development pipelines and have seen everything from mailing code updates around in emails to advanced…

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We've shipped some new features to help give you more flexibility and options when creating your release notes. Include Github Issues in…

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Do you organize your work in Github issues? Do those issues better reflect what work your team ships and want to include in your release…

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If you're reading this, you're reading our newly replatformed brochure site. This is certainly not news! However, I wanted to share how this…