Publish release notes

Create custom release notes file(s) to notify users of the changes as you publish a new version of your app.

Release notes can be published to:

• email. The release notes will be included in the publishing email of a successful build if you have the publishing configured in App settings > Publish > Email.
• Slack. The release notes will be included in the Slack notification of a successful build if you have the publishing configured in App settings > Publish > Slack.
• GitHub Releases. The release notes will be published to a release if you have the publishing configured in App settings > Publish > GitHub releases.
• Google Play. The release notes will be published to Google Play Console if you have the publishing configured in App settings > Publish > Google Play.

Setting up release notes

There are three supported options to set up release notes:

1. Create a release_notes.txt file and add it to the root of your project. When it’s present, Codemagic will fetch the content of that file and publish it with the build.
   • For email, Slack and GitHub releases, it will be published as is.
   • For Google Play it will be published under en-US language localization code.

2. Create a release_notes_<language_localization_code>.txt file for every language used, e.g. release_notes_en-GB.txt, release_notes_it.txt, and add them to the root of your project.

   • Release notes with en-US language code will be published to email, Slack and GitHub releases in case file with en-US language code exists. If not, the first found release notes will be published.
   • For Google Play, all the release notes will be published with corresponding language codes.

3. Create a release_notes.json file with the following content:

   [
       {
           "language": string, # Language localization code (a BCP-47 language tag)
           "text": string      # The text in the given language
       },
       ...
   ]
   

   Add this file to the root of your project. Notes with missing language or text fields will not be taken into account. Please refer to the list of supported languages.

   • Release notes with en-US language code will be published to email, Slack and GitHub releases, given that a file with en-US language code exists. If not, the first release notes will be published.
   • For Google Play, all the found release notes will be published with corresponding language codes.