Is there a way to automate release notes for approved JIRA issues into a confluence space

Question

My team has a JIRA board where we approve all upcoming product releases. How can I make it so that each week, a summary list of all issues in "Approved" status on the board are published to a new Confluence page within a linked Confluence space? Is there an automation feature that can do this?

I am essentially looking to create an archive of weekly approved releases, and eventually create a repository of all the release notes and any related documentation (like a user guide for a specific release that I can then add to a page).

Going further - is there a way to also automatically send the weekly list of Approved issues and their summaries out to an email list or distribution group?

Sascha Reuter · Answer

Released is pretty much the de facto standard for doing this in a simple yet elegant way, see their example. Kudos to you @Jens Schumacher - Released_so and the whole team!

Jens Schumacher - Released_so · Answer

Another option you can look at is Released. Instead of just publishing the content of the Jira tickets, Released actually writes release notes with AI for you.

Although there is still a manual step involved (right now), it only takes a couple of minutes to publish the updates and the post can also be sent out via email.

You can publish to Confluence, or a private/public portal like this: https://released.releasedhub.com/released/changelog

Disclaimer: I'm one of the founders.

David Nickell · Answer

one possible issue came to mind after my answer -- if you clone the Confluence Page and it still has the Filter Results widget, it will continue to display the current results no matter when the page was generated.  I think the way to resolve this is look to automation for the creation of a PDF from your confluence status.  And if you think about it, you wouldn't want anything to change on your weekly report.  So --look at automation for creation of a PDF (as opposed to re-cloning the Confluence Page)