CHANGECRAB

We are excited to announce the launch of the AI-Powered Changelog Assistant for our premium customers! This groundbreaking feature harnesses the power of OpenAI’s ChatGPT to streamline the creation of polished, audience-specific release notes, enabling you to focus more on your product and less on documentation.

What’s New?

AI-Powered Changelog Creation

Our new AI assistant acts as your co-writer, transforming bullet-point notes into fully structured, professional updates that resonate with your audience. Whether you’re starting from scratch or refining existing content, the assistant is designed to adapt to your needs.

Key Features:

• 🤖 Smart Content Generation: Simply paste your list of commits or bullet points, hit Build, and watch the AI create a comprehensive changelog complete with headings, highlights, and upgrade tips.

• 🎯 Audience-Focused Tuning: Tailor your changelog for Developers, End Users, or Stakeholders. The AI adjusts the content to provide the right level of technical depth or business impact.

• 🎨 Tone Customization: Match your brand’s voice in one click, whether you require a formal, friendly, technical, or enthusiastic tone.

• 🌍 Multi-Language Support: Produce localized release notes instantly, ensuring you can reach your global audience without the need for external translation workflows.

How It Works:

1. Open the Editor: Premium accounts will find a new AI button in the toolbar.

2. Pick an Action: Choose from Build, Tune, Tone, or Translate.

3. Review the Draft: Your complete changelog will be generated in seconds.

4. Refine & Publish: Make any necessary tweaks before hitting Publish or scheduling as usual.

Credit System

AI requests operate on a monthly credit system included with premium plans. Each action consumes one credit. A tracker in your dashboard helps you manage your usage effectively.

Real-World Benefits:

• Developers: Save time on documentation while ensuring technical accuracy.

• Product Managers: Communicate scope and value clearly to any stakeholder.

• Marketing Teams: Generate engaging, brand-consistent copy that drives user adoption.

Best Practices:

• Start with clear, detailed bullet points for sharper outputs.

• Specify your audience to ensure appropriate detail levels.

• Always review before publishing; the AI provides the framework, you add the final polish.

• Combine AI efficiency with your expertise for optimal results.

Technical Foundation

Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o-mini, the assistant delivers quick responses (often in under five seconds) with secure and stateless processing. All prompts are encrypted in transit, and no data is stored post-completion.

Pricing & Availability

The AI-powered changelog creation feature is now available to all premium subscribers. Your plan includes credits, with additional top-ups available if needed during busy release cycles—no configuration required.

Looking Ahead:

We’re already working on:

• Additional AI actions (summaries, changelog to blog conversion, and more).

• Broader language support for emerging markets.

• Deeper tool integrations with CI pipelines, Git providers, and project boards.

• Analytics to track which changelog entries drive the most engagement.

Conclusion

The AI-Powered Changelog Assistant merges machine efficiency with human oversight, resulting in timely, engaging release notes that inform, delight, and drive adoption—without adding overhead to your release cycle.

Ready to see it in action? [Upgrade to Premium](https://changecrab.com/billing) and create your first AI-generated changelog today!

Our changelogs now have a ready to go prompt for your AI tools, making embedding a piece of cake.

You will find this in the embed settings - let us know if you'd like to see a specialized version for a tool you use!

Great news! We now support proper Private Changelogs for premium users, these can still be hosted on the same changecrab or CNAME'd URL, but now you can define a password that allows access.

Passwords are encrypted and secure on our side, when a user enters a password they will get access to all variants of that specific changelog for 30 days without needing to authenticate again on the same device.

Remember, reduce your risk, and always use different passwords for different services! 

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If you have any questions or feedback on this, just reach out to our support team!

All users can now toggle dark mode when logged in, enjoy!

Custom CSS is now available for paid users, let us know what you think and if there are any requests!

We'll have more information on usage for this and our other functions in our KnowledgeBase (coming soon)

The first version of our API is now live and in Beta for paid users, this will allow you to automate & execute the following tasks via our API:

• Create changelog
• Update changelog
• Delete changelog
• Create changelog post
• Update changelog post
• Delete changelog post

We've added a new page in app where it will be possible to generate API keys in a secure fashion, and you will also find a new section with the full API documentation

We will incrementally roll out updates and improvements during the Beta period, please stay tuned and feel free to let us know via support if you have any feedback 

Changelog stats are now available for all users, and can be viewed via Changelog settings.

This feature will allow you to keep an eye on how many page views you are getting on your changelogs, as well as some other general information.

Something else you'd like to see here? Reach out to our team and let us know! 

We hope everyone is having a wonderful Easter!

Behind the scenes, we’re hard at work making improvements, fixing bugs, and planning for the future. Our goal is to deliver the best possible experience for you — and that means listening closely to your feedback.

What’s happening right now:

• We are conducting a full review of historic feature requests and bug reports to ensure that any outstanding issues are addressed or added to our roadmap.
• Our focus is on delivering meaningful updates that improve usability, stability, and functionality.

Exciting features on the way:

• Full API Access: Easily integrate with our platform programmatically, enabling greater automation and flexibility.
• AI-Powered Tools: Generate changelogs, suggest improvements, and enhance your workflows with smart, AI-driven functionality.

We can’t wait to share more details with you soon. Stay tuned for updates, and as always — thank you for being part of our community!

We deployed some changes and fixes for the subscription system:

• Resolved several edge cases where subscriptions could fail erroneously
• Resolved an issue with currency detection
• Purchasing a subscription will now apply paid privileges to all teams on the account rather than a single team

✨ What’s New?

We’ve rolled out a series of behind-the-scenes upgrades to supercharge your changelog editing flow. No more clunky moments — just smooth, streamlined editing, like you’re Neo in front of a terminal.

🐛 Bug Fixes

Squashed the pesky “invisible update” bug that caused edits to vanish into the void

Resolved issues where undo/redo would occasionally misbehave (bad editor, no biscuit)

Removed issues with the various list functions

🚀 Performance Improvements

Faster load times – The editor now spins up quicker than a hot deploy on a Friday night

Smarter autosave – Less resource-intensive, more reliable (and slightly more polite)

Smoother scrolling and input response – It’s like your keyboard and the editor are finally in sync

🌈 User Experience Enhancements

The UI is now sleeker and more responsive — every keystroke should feel ✨snappy✨

Improved feedback when saving, publishing, or accidentally triggering the “oh no I didn’t mean to do that” moments

🔮 TL;DR

“All users will now have a more streamlined experience while editing changelogs.”But also: it’s faster, it’s smarter, and it won’t ghost your edits anymore.

We're freshening up and starting a brand new changelog!

Here we'll keep you in the loop on our ongoing journey to make ChangeCrab the best tool for communicating changes to your users and collecting their feedback

Stay Updated

We're looking forward to talking about all our changes, updates and improvements to our service as we move forward. We hope you'll keep an eye on our progress and let us know what you think. Feel free to reach out to our support team and say hello!