jordanleven

For developers who are deploying multiple themes, it’s useful to have a full version history that details new features, improvements, and bug fixes. With Release Notes, this is simpler than ever.
Using the provided .json template and your own style.css main stylesheet, you can organize your theme deployments in releases (major, minor, and bug fixes).
Features
<ul>
<li>Works with single installations and Multisite</li>
<li>Works with parent themes and child themes</li>
<li>Parses releases notes into easy-to-read sections that show users what features are new with each new release</li>
</ul>
Feature Requests and Bug Reports
Please report any feature requests you have or bugs you encounter <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/release-notes" rel="ugc">under the Support tab</a>. This is a new plugin and I’m hoping to add more user-requested features to make this useful to developers.
Grunt Integration
Are you a Grunt user? Check out <a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/grunt-release-notes-to-readme" rel="nofollow ugc">release-notes-to-readme on npmJS</a>. This package can be used to parse our your release notes into a nice ReadMe.md format that can be included in your theme.

Release Notes

Release Notes is a WordPress plugin that help you keep track of features that have been added over time to your themes.

cardinal90

Have you ever had a plugin update break your site? I have. And it wasn’t even a major update. I won’t be turning automatic updates for this plugin on in the future. On the other hand, some plugins may be safe to update regardless of version number.
WordPress plugin developer guidelines recommend using <a href="http://semver.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">Semantic Versioning</a>. And while not everybody follows it, for many plugins a version number still tells something about possible impact.
With Precise Plugin Updater you choose what type of update is allowed for any single plugin:
<ul>
<li>All – allows any updates</li>
<li>Minor – preserves the first part of a version number</li>
<li>Patch – preserves the first two parts</li>
<li>None – turns automatic updates off</li>
</ul>
This is done on the plugins page itself with a simple interface, that doesn’t require page reload.
You may also set a default policy in the settings, and then override it individually.

Precise Plugin Updater

This automatic plugin updater gives you fine grained control. You may choose to allow any updates, only minor versions, only patch versions, or none.

Release Notes vs Precise Plugin Updater