Release Notes Email Template — Added, Fixed, Changed
A version number and date on a masthead line, then Added / Fixed / Changed groups as tagged rows. For releases where the substance is the list, not the pitch.
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The prompt
Two ways to build this email in plain language. The fastest is Temway's in-editor assistant — open the chat drawer in the email editor and paste the recipe below. Or connect Claude or ChatGPT via Temway's MCP and paste it there; the agent builds the email step by step. Either way, adapt the copy and colors to your brand.
- An email is a top-to-bottom stack of blocks — the recipe follows that order.
- A
[layout]step becomes a single image (great for heroes); everything else stays live text and links. - Theme the footer to match — the recipe's last step does exactly that.
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it into your workspace, then ask the in-editor assistant to rebrand it. Over MCP, tell
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layouts-vs-emails, design-recipes.
Release notes have a readership that wants the list, not the narrative. Grouping by Added / Fixed / Changed lets someone find the one line that affects them in about two seconds, which is roughly how long they will give you.
Snapshot
- Goal: let a technical reader find the change that affects them without reading the whole email.
- Audience & tone: existing users, often developers. Terse, specific, no superlatives — “faster” is a claim, “300ms → 40ms” is a release note.
- Palette: page
#ededed· container#ffffff· text#18181b/#707072(muted) · accent#4f5d4a - Font:
Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, sans-serif - Artwork: none — fully native blocks.
Build recipe
Each step is one block in the flat stack, top to bottom.
[native]= a real email block.[layout]= a free-form layout embedded as a single image.
- [native] Logo — logo. Brand mark, left-aligned.
- [native] Headline — text. “Bulk edits now undo as a single action”, fontSize: 28, color
#18181b, left. - [native] Body copy 1 — text. “The one to know about: a batch change across a hundred rows is a single keystroke to reverse, not a hundred.”, fontSize: 16, color
#18181b, left. - [native] Primary CTA — button. Label “See what shipped”, fill
#4f5d4a, color#ffffff, shapeStyle: ‘0_1’, left. - [native] Story title 1 — text. “Fixed”, fontSize: 20, color
#18181b, left. - [native] Body copy 2 — text. “Exports larger than 50MB no longer time out midway through — the job now streams instead of buffering the whole file in memory.”, fontSize: 16, color
#18181b, left. - [native] Story title 2 — text. “Changed”, fontSize: 20, color
#18181b, left. - [native] Body copy 3 — text. “The v1 exports endpoint is deprecated and stops responding on 1 June; the replacement is documented in full below.”, fontSize: 16, color
#18181b, left. - [native] Body copy 4 — text. “Cloud workspaces are already on the new release — self-hosted upgrades follow the usual quarterly channel.”, fontSize: 16, color
#707072, left. - [native] Footer rule — divider. short (96px) rule, 1px, color
#e9e9e9. - [native] Footer social — social. Icon row, social.color
#4f5d4a, style circle-outline, center. - [native] Footer address — address. Postal address + unsubscribe, address.color
#707072, address.fontFamilyTrebuchet MS, Helvetica, sans-serif, center.
Make it yours
- Promote one change above the list. Without a lead, readers skim the artwork and leave.
- Put anything that requires action in its own labelled section with a date. Buried in “Changed”, it will be missed.
- Write concrete rows. “Various improvements and bug fixes” tells a reader they can safely ignore the next one too.
About announcements email templates
An announcement earns its own send when it's time-sensitive or significant enough to need full attention on its own subject line — a launch, a leadership change, a funding round, or a policy update, rather than one more line in the next newsletter issue.
See all announcements templates →What kind of news deserves a standalone announcement email instead of a newsletter mention?
Anything time-sensitive or significant enough to need its own subject line and full attention — a launch, a leadership change, a funding round, or a policy update that changes how customers use your product.
How long should a product-update announcement be?
Long enough to explain what shipped and why it matters, short enough to read in under a minute — the templates below separate a short "what's new" summary from optional deeper detail below it.
How do I announce a leadership change without it feeling like a press release?
The new-CEO and leadership templates below lead with a short, human bio and a direct quote rather than a formal title-and-tenure rundown.
Should an announcement email include a call to action?
Not always — a policy update or leadership announcement can stand on its own, while a product-launch announcement should point to one clear next step, like trying the feature or booking a demo.