Editing Release notes (section)

== Content ==
Release notes detail the corrections, changes or enhancements ([[Functional requirement|functional]] or [[Non-functional requirement|non-functional]]) made to the service or product the company provides.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Change Logs (GNU Coding Standards)|url=https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Change-Logs.html#Change-Logs|access-date=2021-04-05|website=www.gnu.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last1=Wang|first1=C.|last2=Li|first2=J.|last3=Liang|first3=P.|last4=Daneva|first4=M.|last5=Sinderen|first5=M.|title=2019 IEEE 27th International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops (REW) |chapter=Developers' Eyes on the Changes of Apps: An Exploratory Study on App Changelogs |date=September 2019|chapter-url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8933541|pages=207–212|doi=10.1109/REW.2019.00042|isbn=978-1-7281-5165-6|s2cid=209460408|url=https://research.utwente.nl/en/publications/b34c4559-4a9d-4fbf-8567-3e001f84d8f8 }}</ref><ref>{{Citation|last=Bourne|first=Kelly C.|title=Chapter 10 - Updates and Patches|date=2014-01-01|url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780123985453000108|work=Application Administrators Handbook|pages=150–165|editor-last=Bourne|editor-first=Kelly C.|place=Boston|publisher=Morgan Kaufmann|language=en|doi=10.1016/b978-0-12-398545-3.00010-8|isbn=978-0-12-398545-3|access-date=2021-03-25|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

They might also be provided as an artifact accompanying the deliverables for [[System testing|System Testing]] and [[System integration testing|System Integration Testing]] and other managed environments especially with reference to an [[information technology]] organization.

Release notes can also contain test results and information about the [[Software testing|test procedure]]. This kind of information gives readers of the release note more confidence in the fix/change done; this information also enables implementer of the change to conduct rudimentary [[Acceptance testing|acceptance tests]].

They differ from [[End-user license agreement]], since they do not (should not) contain any legal terms of the software product or service. The focus should be on the software release itself, not for example legal conditions.<ref>{{Citation|title=release-notes/release-notes-spec|date=2021-03-25|url=https://github.com/release-notes/release-notes-spec|publisher=Release Notes|access-date=2021-03-25}}</ref>

Release notes can also be interpreted as describing how to install or build the software, instead of highlighting new features or resolved bugs.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Linux kernel release 5.x — The Linux Kernel documentation|url=https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/README.html|access-date=2021-03-25|website=www.kernel.org}}</ref> Another term often used in this context is ''System Requirements'', meaning the required hardware and software for installing or building the software.