Examples — Release Notes House Style
Contents
- Bullet-level pairs (do / never)
- Breaking-change placement
- Complete before/after release
Bullet-level pairs (do / never)
Pair 1 — benefit first
- ✅ "Dashboards now refresh automatically every 30 seconds — no more manual reloads."
- ❌ "Implemented WebSocket-based polling refactor for dashboard state (JIRA-4521)."
Pair 2 — plain language
- ✅ "Fixed a bug where exported CSVs dropped the last row."
- ❌ "Resolved an edge-case regression in the serialization pipeline impacting terminal record emission."
Pair 3 — noise cut
- ✅ (entry omitted entirely)
- ❌ "Bumped lodash from 4.17.20 to 4.17.21."
Pair 4 — no filler
- ✅ "Fixed three crashes on startup affecting Windows users with non-Latin usernames."
- ❌ "Various bug fixes and performance improvements."
Breaking-change placement
✅ Correct — top of the notes, before any heading:
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## Acme CLI 3.0.0 — 2026-08-01
> **Breaking:** `acme deploy` now requires `--env`. Add `--env production` to existing scripts.
This release focuses on safer deployments.
### Added
- ...❌ Wrong — buried as a bullet:
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### Improved
- Deploy command now requires an environment flag (breaking).Complete before/after release
Input (engineer's commit list):
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- feat: add SSO via SAML (ENG-201)
- perf: rewrite query planner, p95 latency 840ms -> 210ms
- fix: null pointer when profile avatar missing
- chore: upgrade CI runners to ubuntu-24.04
- refactor: extract billing module
- feat!: remove legacy /v1/auth endpoint❌ Never ship this (implementation-first, noise included, breaking buried):
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## 2.8.0
- Added SAML SSO support (ENG-201)
- Rewrote query planner
- Fixed NPE on missing avatar
- Upgraded CI to ubuntu-24.04
- Extracted billing module
- Removed /v1/auth (breaking)✅ House style:
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## Acme 2.8.0 — 2026-08-05
> **Breaking:** The legacy `/v1/auth` endpoint is removed. Switch integrations to `/v2/auth` before upgrading.
Faster searches and single sign-on headline this release.
### Added
- Sign in with your company account: SAML single sign-on is now available on all Team plans.
### Improved
- Search is dramatically faster — most queries now return in about 0.2 seconds instead of nearly a second.
### Fixed
- Fixed a crash when opening a profile that has no avatar.Note: the CI upgrade and billing refactor are correctly absent (no user impact).