The best Software Releases newsletters

Lockdown Systems is a worker-owned collective that publishes updates on its privacy and freedom tech projects, including OnionShare releases, Cyd Desktop data-clawback fixes, and community events. Readers get release notes, technical explanations of how the tools work and break, and news about the collective's funding and activities.

Release announcements and changelogs for ProcessOne's ejabberd XMPP server and the Fluux Messenger client. Issues cover security fixes, new configuration options, schema changes and client behaviour improvements.

Outpost is a product changelog-style newsletter from the Outpost team, which builds email and membership tooling for Ghost publishers. Each issue announces a software release with highlights, added, changed and fixed items, mostly about email flows, unsubscribes, events and renewals.

Release notes for the Penpot open-source design tool, covering new features such as background blur, WebGL rendering, design tokens and the new Enterprise plan. Readers get a concise changelog of what shipped in each version and credits to community contributors.

Short product announcements from the creator of xlwings covering new features in xlwings Lite and the release of his book Python for Excel, 2nd Edition. Readers get a quick update on what changed and where to try it.

Release announcements for the Passenger application server, covering version changes, compatibility updates, security fixes and new platform packages. Readers get concise technical notes on what changed and how to upgrade.

Release announcements from the team behind Chaskiq, an open-source customer support and live chat platform. Each issue lists the version's features, dependency upgrades and bug fixes, such as the Dante2 to Dante3 editor migration and the plugin marketplace.

This blog carries release announcements for CTFd, the capture-the-flag platform, mainly security fixes and upgrade instructions for self-hosted and hosted instances. Readers get terse changelogs and advice on which vulnerabilities to act on.

This is the release-notes and product blog for xdge, an AI workflow platform, covering fixes and feature changes such as workflow execution, scheduled workflows, Deep Research and meetings infrastructure. It also includes occasional vision pieces about the company's technical direction, mostly in promotional product-marketing language.

Release announcements for NetIP, a free Windows-style network IP tool, covering version 0.3.0 with geolocation and multiple IP providers, 0.4.0 with a new icon, proxy support and live logs, and 0.4.1 hotfix. Each issue lists changes, links and a donation request.