Friday, May 22, 2026

The Gitpulse Dispatch

Development activity intelligence for gitpulse itself

Sunday, May 3, 2026

New Feature·Merged May 2, 2026·XL

PR details open in slide-in drawer with scroll preserved

#25·by @znat

Clicking any feed item now slides PR or commit details in from the right instead of navigating away. The feed stays frozen at its scroll position, and closing the drawer returns users exactly where they were. The panel is deep-linkable via URL.

Saturday, May 2, 2026

Release Edition
v0.1.0

The newspaper that covers its own commits shipped. We are not handling this well.

Release v0.1.0
Editorial illustration for release v0.1.0
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Top Stories
  • 1Release editions surface on homepage feed and /releases/ pagesGitHub releases are now displayed as Special Edition cards on the homepage feed — grouped by publish date and positioned above PR features — with dedicated /releases/ list and detail pages including auto-generated Open Graph images and SEO structured data.Feature
  • 2gitpulse gains install guide, test suite, and story schema validationgitpulse now ships with a proper install guide, 53 passing tests, and a schema contract that catches malformed stories before they reach production.
  • 3Release changelogs now generate automaticallyGitPulse now processes GitHub releases end-to-end, automatically matching each release to its PRs and generating editorial-quality release notes — no manual work required.Feature
Read the Full Edition18 stories inside
New Feature·Merged May 2, 2026·XL

PR detail page redesigned with tabs and diff viewer

#24·by @znat

The gitpulse PR detail page now shows richer metadata up front—merged status, size assessment, and category breakdown—before the headline. Story and technical content live in separate tabs, with code blocks rendering line numbers and diffs getting green/red coloring.

New Feature·Merged May 2, 2026·M

Releases automated via conventional commit titles

#11·by @znat

Maintainers no longer manually type version numbers. A bot now reads conventional commit titles, computes the bump, and opens a release PR for review—CHANGELOG included.

New Feature·Merged May 2, 2026·XL

Release editions surface on homepage feed and /releases/ pages

#7·by @znat

GitHub releases are now displayed as Special Edition cards on the homepage feed — grouped by publish date and positioned above PR features — with dedicated /releases/ list and detail pages including auto-generated Open Graph images and SEO structured data.

New Feature·Merged May 2, 2026·L

Release changelogs now generate automatically

#6·by @znat

GitPulse now processes GitHub releases end-to-end, automatically matching each release to its PRs and generating editorial-quality release notes — no manual work required.

New Feature·Merged May 2, 2026·M

Release tracking schemas and storage layer landed

#5·by @znat

GitPulse now stores release data alongside stories. Every GitHub release gets its own validated JSON file with denormalized top stories and an inputsHash for skipping redundant AI calls.

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