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Release Notes
A daily email with today’s version number; reply with notes from the day and they become that version’s release notes.
- Status
- Active Being built or operated.
- Dates
- Started Oct 8, 2026
- Where
- notes.yourversionnumber.com/
- Topics
- Play MCP
- Page views
- 0 in the twelve months to Sep 30, 2026
- Latest evidence
- Latest commit, Oct 21, 2026
Release Notes is a daily email from Your Version Number. Each morning it gives the subscriber today’s number (“You’re 5.4.278 today”). Reply with anything about the day, or write it in the web app, and it is kept as the release notes for that version. I introduced it on 2026-10-08: after making the Your Version Number site I wished I got my version by email, and wondered what it would be like to add notes to each version.
It is lightweight journaling built around the reply. In Weekly Thing 353 I wrote that I enjoyed getting the email each day and simply replying with notes, photos, and even audio. The README describes the rest: a writing streak and “On this day” notes from earlier releases in the email, tags and search, weather and places kept with each day, a Day One import, a full zip export, opt-in transcripts and photo descriptions, and owner-approved access for agents through MCP. The email tracks nothing and loads nothing remote.
It runs on AWS: a scheduled sender, SES for inbound replies, DynamoDB for notes, and a React web app with Hono functions on Lambda behind CloudFront. Its version arithmetic is a port of the Your Version Number site’s own code, checked against thousands of generated cases.
Activity
240 commits (162 with Claude, 78 with another agent), the first on Oct 7, 2026.
The latest weeks with activity
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Week of Oct 19, 2026 32 commits, all with Claude
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Week of Oct 12, 2026 134 commits (57 with Claude, 77 with another agent)
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Week of Oct 5, 2026 74 commits (73 with Claude, 1 with another agent)
All activity, week by week. Who made each commit is from its author and co-author lines.
Sources and evidence
Observed daily from GitHub, sitemaps, feeds, the Internet Archive, and Tinylytics. Evidence never sets a status.
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jthingelstad/yvn-release-notes implementation
Release Notes: a daily version-number email from Your Version Number; replies become the day's notes
- Repository created Oct 7, 2026 (a development record, not a launch date)
- TypeScript, JavaScript, CSS
- Latest commit Oct 21, 2026; 240 commits on main between Jul 1, 2026 and Oct 23, 2026
- Observed Oct 23, 2026
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notes.yourversionnumber.com/ website
- First archived Oct 12, 2026 by the Internet Archive (existence evidence, not a launch date)
- 0 page views from Oct 1, 2025 to Sep 30, 2026, counted by Tinylytics
- Observed Oct 18, 2026
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www.thingelstad.com/2026/10/08/in-i-wrote-about-your.html reference
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weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/353/ reference
Commits and publications per month, last twelve months.
Connections
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Your Version Number grew into Release Notes
Release Notes uses Your Version Number’s birthday arithmetic in a daily email and personal journal. Source
History
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milestone
A place for upcoming dates
Release Notes adds personal upcoming dates and daily email reminders. Source
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launch
Release Notes launches
A daily version-number email you reply to as a journal. Source
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development
Release Notes: recorded development begins
The earliest commit in this repository is a development record; the project or idea may predate it. Source