Log entry 001
The Shipping Log records software releases as they land. Short, dated, linked to the release notes.
By The Shipping Log staff1 min read
Software ships constantly now. Weekly for most tools, daily for some, and the AI assistants ship so often that their changelogs read like a feed. Most of it goes unrecorded outside the vendor's own notes, which are written to sell the release, not to describe it.
The Shipping Log is a record. Each entry says what shipped, what changed for the people using it, what it costs if the price changed, what broke if something broke, and links to the vendor's own release notes so you can check.
Entries are short
A log entry is a few paragraphs, not a review. If a release deserves more than that, we write a separate piece and link it from the entry. We would rather log twenty releases accurately than write one long piece about the one with the best launch video.
What gets logged
The tools marketing, sales and support teams run on, and the AI assistants those teams now use every day. Launches, updates, pricing changes and deprecations. A deprecation gets logged with the same care as a launch; the people losing a feature need the date more than the people gaining one.
How entries are checked
Against the release notes, the changelog and, where we have an account, the product itself. A feature the notes announce but we could not find is logged as announced, not shipped.
Who publishes this
The Shipping Log is published by Good Standing Media. When a company the publisher has a stake in ships something, the entry says so at the top.
Corrections
hello@theshippinglog.com. Corrected entries keep their number and gain a dated line.