What this site promises, and what it doesn’t

What's New is run by Jeff Mixon, one person, not a company. Using the site means accepting what is on this page. If you do not accept it, please do not use the site.

What we do with your data is a separate document: the privacy policy.

An aggregator. We read changelogs, release notes and patch notes that publishers put out themselves — through feeds, package registries and first-party APIs — and present them in one place. Every entry links back to the publisher’s own page, which is where you should go for the authoritative version.

We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any product listed here. Product names, logos and trademarks belong to their owners and are used to identify what a changelog is about, nothing more.

An entry can be stale, incomplete or wrong. A source can break quietly. A publisher can revise a note after we have read it. We show what we read, when we read it, and where it came from — not a guarantee that it is current.

Two kinds of entry are labeled because they are weaker than the rest. “Sample data” is content we seeded by hand rather than harvested from a live source.

An entry marked “AI extracted” was read off an HTML page by a model rather than taken from a structured feed. Every version number and title is checked against the page text before it is stored, but the reading is still a machine reading.

Do not make a security decision from this site alone. If you are deciding whether a patch closes a vulnerability that affects you, read the publisher’s own advisory.

Release notes remain the property of whoever wrote them. We store and excerpt them so they can be indexed, searched and linked, and every surface that shows one — the feed, the product page, the RSS feed and the markdown exports — names the publisher and links to the original. We add nothing that claims to be your words.

Where a changelog is only available as a web page rather than a feed, we read it as a crawler does and we honour your robots.txt. A refusal there is a refusal here.

If you would rather we did not carry your product, or you want a specific entry removed or corrected, email contact@whatsnew.fyi with the product and the URL. We will act on it. The same address is where to send a copyright complaint.

Reading the site needs no account. Signing in unlocks following products, a personal feed, browser notifications and commenting, through Google, GitHub or Steam.

• You must be at least 13. If we learn an account belongs to someone younger, we remove it.
• An account is for one person. Do not impersonate anyone, and do not pick a display name meant to be mistaken for someone else.
• You are responsible for the provider account you sign in with. We never see or hold a password.
• You can delete your account at any time on your account page. It is a real delete — no copy is kept and there is no restore.

You keep ownership of everything you write. By posting a comment you give us permission to store it and show it on this site while it is posted — which is what lets a thread render on a page that is cached and shared. That permission ends when you delete the comment or your account. We claim nothing beyond it: not the right to license your writing to anyone else, not the right to use it elsewhere.

You are saying that what you post is yours to post, and that publishing it here breaks nobody’s rights.

Do not post:

• spam, advertising, or link-dropping for someone else’s traffic
• harassment, threats, or abuse aimed at a person or a group
• anything unlawful, or content that sexualises a minor
• malware, phishing links, or anything meant to compromise a reader
• someone else’s private information, or content posted as if you were them
• reports filed to silence a comment you simply disagree with, or extra accounts made to work around a limit

No automated stage on this site can remove a comment. Three of them can put one on hold — a set of fixed spam rules, reports from three different accounts, and a model that reads first-time posters — and holding is the only verb any of them has. A held comment is invisible until a person looks at it.

A human can do more. We may remove a comment, hold every comment from an account, or close an account outright, for anything in the list above. We try to be slow about it and to leave an angry, badly punctuated, entirely legitimate complaint alone.

You can delete your own comment at any time. Its text is erased; the position stays as a marker so replies underneath it still make sense.

Threads are deliberately not indexed by search engines, and are not in the sitemap, the RSS feed or the machine-readable exports.

Anyone can suggest a product to track, with or without an account. Suggestions go into a queue a person reviews. We are not obliged to add anything, we may add something you suggested without telling you, and nothing you send is treated as confidential or earns compensation. Do not send anything you need kept secret.

Explicitly allowed, and built for. The RSS feed at /feed.xml, the markdown exports at /llms.txt and per product, and /sitemap.xml all exist to be read by software. Our robots.txt names nineteen AI crawlers and allows each one on purpose. If you republish what you find, attribute the publisher and link back the way we do.

Not allowed:

• working around rate limits, quotas, or the bot check
• load heavy enough to degrade the site for other people — the feeds exist so you never need to hammer the pages
• reaching the admin pages or the cron and agent APIs without authorization, or trying to find out what is behind them
• taking the site apart to get at credentials, other people’s accounts, or anything a signed-in person cannot see

The site is free and best-effort. There is no uptime commitment. A source can break, a page can go down, and a feature can be changed or withdrawn. This is a project run by one person, and it may be discontinued — if that happens we will say so here first rather than let it go dark.

THE SITE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE CHANGELOG DATA IS ACCURATE, COMPLETE, OR CURRENT, OR THAT THE SITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOST PROFITS, LOST DATA, OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF THE SITE OR YOUR RELIANCE ON ANYTHING PUBLISHED ON IT. OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS RELATING TO THE SITE WILL NOT EXCEED ONE HUNDRED US DOLLARS (US $100).

Some places do not allow these exclusions. Where that is true, they do not apply to you and nothing here limits a right you have that cannot be waived.

You can stop using the site whenever you like, and delete your account on your account page in one step. We can suspend or close an account that breaks these terms. The sections about accuracy, warranties and liability survive either.

If these terms change, the date at the top changes with them and the change is described here rather than made quietly. Continuing to use the site after that means accepting the new version.

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute goes to the state or federal courts located in California, and you and we each agree to that venue.

Email contact@whatsnew.fyi — for a takedown, a correction, a question about these terms, or anything else. It reaches a person, not a queue.