Release intelligence for engineering teams
ReleaseBytes tracks official release notes, changelogs and lifecycle dates from the platforms your team relies on, summarises each one in plain English, and tells you when something needs action.
Why it exists
Engineering teams lose time checking vendor blogs and changelogs by hand. Breaking changes, deprecations, price changes and end-of-life dates get missed until they cause an incident or an invoice.
ReleaseBytes puts the signal in one place. Every item carries a plain-English summary and a release type, so you can filter for what actually matters to your team, and the dated changes are pulled out into their own timeline so nothing lands unannounced.
What you get
Official sources only
We track official changelogs, release notes and vendor announcements. No third-party commentary, hot takes or general tech news.
Plain-English summaries
Every item is summarised and tagged by release type: breaking, security, deprecation, feature or general. Filter the home feed to Highlights for notable launches, or Attention Required for the action-forcing changes.
Key dates, per platform
One timeline per platform: end-of-life and end-of-support deadlines, plus announced pricing changes, configuration-default changes and retirements for AWS, GCP and Azure. Every dated change is checked against the original announcement.
Model retirement dates
The Anthropic, Gemini and OpenAI model catalogues as a retirement schedule: every model ID with a published shutdown date, soonest first. A model ID is a dependency with an expiry date, not a stable config value.
Alerts where you work
Email and Slack alerts for the platforms, tags and release types you choose, including EOL warnings at 90, 30 and 7 days out.
GitHub App and MCP
The GitHub App opens an issue in your repo when something you run nears end of life. The MCP server lets Claude, Cursor and other assistants query any release we track.
Sources we track
Official release feeds from the platforms engineering teams depend on most.
How to follow along
Browsing, RSS and the MCP server are free, as is the EOL tracker and every key dates page. Paid plans add scheduled Release Snapshots and Slack delivery: see pricing for what each plan includes.
We also publish a weekly digest every Monday and write up the wider patterns on the blog. Questions or a platform you want covered? Contact us.