JIRA Release Notes Markdown, a good idea?

Question

This is something I have always wanted. A configuration to generate Markdown out of the Release Notes in JIRA! I can do this with HTML -> Markdown converters, but thats just messy. I want a simple copy and paste and bam! Useful for people who like to use GitHub Releases. However, would Atlassian really consider including this, or would they just make a plugin, or somebody else make a plugin?

Aron Gombas _Midori_ · Answer

In Jira Server and Data Center you should be able to do this as the release notes template is customizable and the result is plain text, so nothing prevents you from using markdown syntax. In Cloud, however, you don't have access to the release notes template for technical reasons.

A workaround could be using the Better PDF Exporter app (supports Jira Cloud!), but with a tricky template that creates the PDF document with markdown-format body text. Then you export the PDF file, open it in any reader application and copy its body text and voila, you have content in markdown format.

Not the optimal solution, but could definitely work until it becomes natively available in Jira Cloud.

GeoffB · Answer

5 years on and this STILL is a really simple feature begging to be added.

Please register your vote here:

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-67148

Charles Burgess1 · Answer

PLEASE! This is a royal pain for our team